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Manufacturing Accountant

  • Location: Barnsley
  • Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Flexible and Hybrid working
  • Job Type:Permanent

Posted 11 days ago

  • Sector: Transactional Finance, Finance
  • Contact: Qualified Perm
  • Contact Email: cv@sharpconsultancy.com
  • Start Date: TBC
  • Expiry Date: 22 May 2024
  • Job Ref: JCU030424_1713802871

We are delighted to announce our continued collaboration with one of Barnsley's top Manufacturing SME's on a brand new recruitment assignment for a Manufacturing Accountant. This business are specialist manufacturers of a catalogue of bespoke products, designed, built and distributed nationwide using state of the art facilities. Following an internal restructure, the new position of Manufacturing Accountant has become available and will report directly into the Financial Controller.

As Manufacturing Accountant, you will hold responsibility for influencing strategic decisions that will drive performance within the business, as well as leading various reporting processes and delivering these results to multiple stakeholders across the wider operational team.
This opportunity would be ideal for a candidate with experience within the manufacturing sector looking to consolidate their skillset within an SME environment whilst having full ownership of financial processes and controls.

Duties to include:
* Collaborating with the manufacturing and sales team to provide knowledge and analysis on manufacturing costs, bill of materials and product pricing
* Full production of monthly management accounts
* Re-development of current reporting packs to automate weekly and monthly reporting processes
* Implementation of weekly production reports (including variances) and labour capture
* Ownership in the management of standard costs
* Maintenance of internal controls alongside developing and implementing financial procedures
* Implement and ensure robust financial controls, covering areas such as stock integrity, annual stocktakes and product cost prices
* Full responsibility of monthly budgeting and forecasting processes including reforecasting where appropriate and cost reduction targets
* Implementation and maintenance of key variance analysis covering manufacturing, sales and profitability
* Preparation of timely and accurate month end reports as required

Person Specification:
* ACA / ACCA / CIMA Qualified
* Previous Manufacturing experience

For further information or a private and confidential conversation either for this specific opportunity or your personal job search please contact Emma Berry or Jack Curtis on 0114 261 1700 or 07496 364678.

Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK full time without restriction. To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not always possible to respond to unsuccessful applicants. Therefore if we have not responded to your application within seven days please note that on this occasion your application has not been successful.

Sharp Consultancy is a finance and accountancy recruitment specialist assisting accounting and finance divisions of businesses in the Yorkshire and Derbyshire area. With over 30 years' experience we pride ourselves on sourcing excellent finance professionals across all divisions of an accounts function, from finance administrators through to senior Finance Director appointments. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy jobs or accountancy recruitment; finance jobs or finance recruitment.