Costing Accountant

We’re working with a successful and fast-paced food manufacturing business in South Kirkby who are looking to appoint a part qualified costings accountant to support their Finance Controller.

This is a great opportunity for someone with solid finance experience who enjoys being close to operations and having a direct impact on cost control and performance.

What you’ll be doing:
This is a hands-on role where you’ll be key to helping the business understand its operational performance and improve profitability.

Responsibilities include:

• Calculating daily operational variances including yields, etc.
• Reporting on costs across labour, etc including variances to standard
• Liaising with Payroll to ensure accurate daily cost capture
• Highlighting and actioning yield performance with operations
• Ensuring yield improvement actions are implemented and shared across teams
• Updating system changes (e.g. cost specs, BOMs, reports, maintenance systems)
• Ensuring new products are set up correctly to measure key direct costs
• Identifying and supporting areas for profit improvement
• Stock reconciliation across multiple areas including third-party providers
• Ensuring accurate costs and yields in product costings and tenders
• Providing holiday/absence cover and supporting other finance duties as required

What we’re looking for:

• Experience in a finance or management accounting role, ideally within manufacturing or FMCG
• Part-qualified CIMA or AAT qualified would be advantageous
• Strong attention to detail and confidence working with large datasets and systems

Salary £35,000 - £40,000

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