Job Description

• Coordinate budgets for incorporation into the company financial forecasts, providing regular forecasts and projections and analysis of variances, identifying both risks and opportunities.
• Prepare management reports in respect of product and departmental costs, including overhead absorption, variances from budgets and forecasts, standard cost rates, inventory etc.
• Monitor and evaluate inventories, including regular physical inventory counts and reconciliations to the accounts.
• Know and understand the financial plans and drivers, assumptions and indicators that underlie them and prepare analyses needed by management to effectively operate the business.
• Notify the Head of Finance and Report promptly and explain variation on their impact on the business.
• Assist with the specification and implementation of changes to the management information, financial and business systems including SAP.
• Document systems and procedures and propose modifications to improve efficiency and/or service levels.

Benefits

• 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays
• Flexi time scheme to support flexible working
• Healthcare scheme
• Perkpal Benefits platform
• Further benefits available

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

You will hold an Accountancy qualification (CIMA, ACCA or ACA) or be in the last stage of qualification. Experience in a manufacturing environment is essential, being used to working with engineering and/or production departments on a daily basis. A solid knowledge of SAP is important, especially costing. You must have the ambition and desire to grow and make your mark in a changing SME. Be able to coach and work with colleagues to increase the understanding of financial information and data. Experience in a ‘made to order’/OEM business would be an advantage. Experience of reporting in a large (Group) environment would be an advantage.