Manufacturing Accountant

My client, a global manufacturing business based in the Chester area, is currently looking to recruit a Manufacturing Accountant on a temporary to permanent basis.  Reporting to the Finance Manager you will be required to lead standard costing, product profitability, capital projects and capex control activities on the site, and inventory valuation and accuracy.

Key Responsibilities

• Financial management and maintenance to ensure correct standard costs.
• Analysis of standard costs for trends, changes, planning, product profitability and stock valuation purposes.
• Standard cost variance analysis to enable understanding of production performance.
• Product and customer profitability analysis for financial and commercial decision making.
• Capex control and fixed asset register maintenance to ensure correctly recorded capital and depreciation.
• Financial control and analysis of project development costs.
• Financial control and analysis of customer tooling in conjunction with operations and engineering teams.
• Participation in annual budget and short term forecast processes.
• Inventory analysis, valuation and accuracy (analysis of cycle counts and stocktake activities).
• Month-end processing responsibilities for fixed assets, depreciation, stock valuation, accounting for tooling development and trialling costs, variance analysis linking with causal analysis and commentary and entry of associated data to the group reporting system.
• Perform related duties and special projects as assigned including plant specific support

You will be CIMA or ACCA Part of Fully Qualified and ideally have previous experience working within a fast paced manufacturing environment. The role offers a generous salary and benefits package as well as career progression opportunities due to the growing nature of the business.