Cost Accountant

1 month ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom Adecco Full time

**Adecco Birmingham are currently recruiting fora Cost Accountant**

**Location: (Birmingham)**

**Salary:£35K**

**Working Fulltime 09:00- 17:30**

**Our client based in Birmingham is looking to recruit an experience Cost Accountant to join their busy team.**

To Support with the costing process for Production and Inventory management, highlighting variances generated between actual and standard cost.

Key Duties:

- Ensure the Cost database for items (PRI's) are accurately maintained
- Analyse, communicate monthly reports and advise departments about Production variances during monthly production meeting
- Production and cost variance analysis
- Material price index follow up
- Commodity price analysis
- Communication of PDC's to other group subsidiaries with audit of transfer prices
- Apportionment of overhead via allocation models
- Analysis of variation of average and standard cost
- Inventory management with all relating financial ratios and statistics relating to this, such as number of days in stock
- Stock and scrap reconciliations
- Analysis of inventory adjustments (IA's) and other OPGL transactions
- Fixed asset verification
- Adhere to month-end deadlines
- Ensure the liaison with statutory Auditors
- Ensure Group rules and best accounting practises are followed
- Work on the budget preparation
- Prepare and analyse management information
- Perform any other duties within your capabilities as requested from time to time by Management

Key Competencies:

- Good analytical skills
- Self-starter with strong attention to detail and accuracy
- Ability to work to tight deadlines
- Organisation and time management skills
- Quality focused
- Good communication and interpersonal skills.
- Computer literate with a strong spreadsheet capability

Adecco acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. The Adecco Group UK & Ireland is an Equal Opportunities Employer.


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