Are you a fully qualified financial controller looking for their next challenge?
This food manufacturing company based in Pocklington is looking for a Plant Financial Controller to join them on a permanent basis. The Plant financial controller's principal role is to provide financial reporting for their plant and provide financial support to the Plant Manager and business through finance business partnering. Working collaboratively with Plant Leadership team and the business to ensure costs are optimised and managed and implements finance best practices within their plant. The expectation is that this individual can understand the full breadth of plant activity.
WHAT YOU WILL WANT TO KNOW AS AN PLANT FINANCIAL CONTROLLER
- £60,000 + per annum
- Full time, permanent role
- Office working hours (8.00am-16.00pm / 9.00am-17.00pm)
- Hybrid working can be offered after probationary period
- Free car parking
- Working within a fast-paced manufacturing environment
A SNAPSHOT OF THE PLANT FINANCIAL CONTROLLER DAY
- Product/Process costing - ensuring that yields, labour, and direct overhead standards reflect the true cost of manufacture. Working with the Plant, Business and Process teams to resolve any differences.
- Ensuring that actual costs are recovered within reported product costs and that variances are identified, investigated, and actioned with the Plant team.
- Provision of weekly detailed and top level KPI reports for the plant. Review of KPI data with operations to identify performance improvement opportunities.
- Stock management and reporting including stock reconciliations and control of stock write-
- offs.
- General ledger reviews - review and control of postings to plant cost centres.
- Capital control - evaluate proposals, monitor spend and review with the Plant team to ensure projects are delivered within the approved value.
- Budget and projection cost preparation - working with the Plant team to establish a robust bottom-up budget including documented profit improvement plans.
- Proposing and evaluating cost saving / profit enhancing, continuous improvement or system enhancement opportunities.
- Key owner of master data and product standards information, alongside audit of SAP use and processes to facilitate optimised use of SAP system.
- Ad hoc projects/ reporting.
Key Deliverables in role;
- In association with the Plant Manager and business team, ensuring tight control of all plant costs by understanding the cost drivers and reporting on them.
- Provision of robust analysis and challenge of costs.
- Ensuring all reporting deadlines are met in a timely manner
Does this sound like a good fit for you? Please read on for the essential skills our client is hoping you will be able to showcase:
- Approximately 5 + years' experience within a manufacturing/operations accounting field
- Be ACA/ACCA/CIMA Qualified - Essential
- Experience in a manufacturing/FMCG environment
- Experience of Excel
- Experience working with SAP (preferable)
You may have experience in addition to this which we will be happy to discuss. If all the above aligns with your experience and you would like to learn more, we would love to hear from you.
Please send your CV and let's discuss the role.
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