Management/Cost Accountant Job in Knutsford, North West Uk
Job Title: Management/Cost Accountant
Job Location: Knutsford, Cheshire, North West
Salary: £Competitive
The Company
There is now an exciting opportunity for you to join a leading manufacturer of Premier needle and ball valves. They are a leader in their field and have shown excellent growth year on year. Continuing to be at the forefront of technology, their products are market leaders in many industries including Oil, Gas and Petrochemical. With an outstanding reputation for staff retention, all of their employee's are provided with support to aid them in their personal career development.
This is a key position within the accounts dept and you will be responsible for developing financial controls procedures to improve visibility and enhance cost reduction measures. This will be particularly focussed on specific areas, such as gross margin returns, inventory sourcing and management, direct cost centres and overheads. This role will focus on all areas that contribute to the companies GM policy and the key priority of the role is to identify any weaknesses that will erode GM returns in the long run.
Key Responsibilities will include:
- Purchasing analysis of both standard and non-standard items in the UK and India.
- Inventory management of surplus and obsolete items against profits and cash.
- Review and analysis of wages/overtime/rework SL8/ERP processes that corrupt actual GMs reported.
- To analyse Indian manufacturing activities in respect of volumes, inventory SL8/ERP processes.
- Other management accounting responsibilities as directed by the Financial Director.
The ideal candidate will have an in depth knowledge of manufacturing cost accounting, good analytical skills and a formal cost accountancy qualification or 10-20 years AAT or part CIMA qualified experience.
Additional helpful skills will include:
- Excellent communicating skills.
- The ability to challenge the 'status quo'.
Keywords: Management, accountant, accountancy, finance, financial, cost, AAT, CIMA.
This vacancy is being advertised by a division of Kudos Holdings LTD, the UK's leading, award winning recruitment specialist. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we will gladly accept applications from all sections of the community. Furthermore, all qualifications listed are indicative and we confirm that we are willing to accept applications from persons holding equivalent qualifications.
All applicants should assume they have been unsuccessful if they have not heard back from their application within 21 days. All successful applicants will be contacted directly by the client.