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 requiredWhat we’re looking for: Experience in a finance or management accounting role, ideally within manufacturing or FMCG Part-qua…