Cost Accountant

Role:
Cost Accountant

Location:
Grimsby

Salary:
Competitive

We are a company that takes pride in our people as it is our people who are at the centre of everything that we do. We have multi-category expertise with a focus on quality and innovation. We deliver what customers need and consumers want with expert taste and growth mindset. Our business began with meat, and we've developed and extended a market-leading expertise within Seafood, with unmatched quality globally.

We’re always investing in new technology to deliver more value, efficiency and consumer-led innovative solutions.

We are looking for a professional and experienced Cost Accountant to be responsible for developing, maintaining, and analysing accurate product costs across seafood processing operations. The role supports pricing, margin analysis, and cost control, ensuring financial integrity and informed commercial decision-making.

• Develop and maintain standard and actual product costs across all seafood product lines
• Analyse raw material yields, processing losses, waste, and by‑product recovery
• Monitor cost impacts of seasonality, species variation, size grades, and catch availability
• Reconcile theoretical yields to actual production results and investigate variances

• Support pricing decisions by providing accurate and timely cost data
• Assess costings for new products, contract tenders, and promotional activity
• Partner with Sales and Procurement to understand margin impacts

• Support the preparation of manufacturing budgets and rolling forecasts
• Model cost scenarios relating to raw material pricing, labour, energy, and throughput changes

• Maintain costing structures within the ERP system
• Ensure strong financial controls over bills of materials, routings, and overhead absorption
• Support continuous improvement of costing processes and reporting

• Qualified or Part Qualified Accountant/QBE
• Experience of standard costing models / cost systems background
• Previous experience in role within FMCG business
• Strong Excel skills

• Great package with competitive holiday allowance
• Life assurance of minimum two times yearly salary
• Opportunities for development and internal promotion
• Share Save scheme
• Free car parking on site
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity

Hilton Food Group
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