Costing Assistant

We have an exciting opportunity for a Costing Assistant to join our team in Frating.

Reporting into one of the Senior Cost Accountants, this role will manage the end-to-end costing function for a commercial publishing division of one of the Penguin Random House Group Companies. Liaising with internal and external stakeholders, this rolewill ensure integrity of our costing approach, and provide immediate visibility to any exceptions in terms of abnormal costs or costing activity.

As a Cost Accountant you will further develop and maintain a framework of accounting controls to enable the department to be operated in an efficient and effective manner, safeguarding assets and minimising liabilities. Ensuring that the financial informationwithin The Penguin Random House Group is accurate and reflects the true position of the company at any one point in time

**Some of your responsibilities will include**:

- Investigating, resolve, and communicate discrepancies
- Establishing and maintaining a regular and formal review of Work in Progress Variances with Production and commercial finance teams in London
- Run reports in SAP to determine Work in Progress variances for books printed
- Prepare variance schedules downloading reports in SAP to excel templates
- Post journals to transfer costs as required
- Process agreed finalised variances to the Profit & loss accounts
- Reconcile stock quantities for stock held in Frating and other offsite Warehouses
- Balance sheet Reconciliation
- Run and reconcile monthly reports in SAP to the general ledger

**To succeed in this role, you'll have**:

- Have high attention to detail
- Experience using Excel
- Experience of working in an office environment and be able to work as part of a team to meet deadlines

You do not require a formal accountancy qualification or experience to be considered for this role. We can support you with your professional development, which may include professional qualifications if appropriate.