Cost Accountant

This is a fantastic permanent opportunity to take responsibility for preparing, developing, and analysing relevant Cost and Yield accounts, identifying root causes of any discrepancies and leading the end-to-end reporting process.

• Pension
• Parking

• Calculate the daily operational variances including meat costs (yield, ppv if applicable, substitution, giveaway & waste)
• Cost reporting for labour, packaging, cooking, distribution and coldstore including variances to standard, liaising with payroll regarding the daily labour costs as appropriate.
• Action poor/good yields with the Operations teams.
• Ensure yield actions are completed & any appropriate training or feedback is provided in a timely manner.
• Updating system changes as required e.g. Cost spec / BOM / SI reports / maintenance explorer.
• Ensure new products set up correctly in order to measure all key direct costs.
• Update CM reporting.
• Liaise with commercial, planning, ops, technical & IT to ensure accuracy of reporting & correct meat usage in line with standards.
• Identifying areas for profit improvement & sustained benefits if found
• Stock reconciliation for all areas
• Ensure costs and yields used in product costings and renewals / tenders are accurate
• Educate key personnel across the business as appropriate, creating a collaborative and multiskilled reconciliation process.
• Cover / support Finance in roles as required
• Ad-hoc reports are required to fulfil the needs of the company.
• Comply with Company Policy to ensure that adhered on all matters concerning Health and Safety, reporting any breaches as appropriate.
• Any other relevant duties required by Management or the Company.

• Experience with in food manufacturing, ideally meat.
• AAT/CIMA/ACCA/QBE
• Stock control experience
• Excellent IT skills

A leading manufacturer

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