Cost Accountant

The Irish sites of Ribworld, Callan Bacon, Carroll Cuisine and Magee's site are an integral part of making Sofina Foods inc. a leading producer of both fresh and cooked pork products with approximately 13,500 employees across Canada and Europe.

The business supplies to retail, foodservice and manufacturing customers in Ireland and Europe, as well as export customers globally. We have full production chain visibility, and our pork is eaten by millions of consumers every year.

This role will be based in one of the irish sites, Ribworld, Fethard, Co Tipperary

Ribworld was found in 2003 and has built a reputation for great food and an expertise in big Brand management. Our continued success has seen us grow over 400% since 2012 and enter into 9 new countries.
Ribworld holds BRC grade 'AA+' accreditation and is operated to the highest international standards. Our Lean culture has driven our success in building a highly efficient organisation with innovation at the forefront of our growth and our people at the coreof everything we do. We offer a wide range of exciting products from cooked ribs, to Beef Borburgion to retail and bulk shredded meats. We offer innovation across all species of meat and have a brilliant team who can work with you to design a range perfectfor your business


**Responsibilities**:

- Preparation of costing analysis for new products and business proposals
- Review and maintenance of standard costing, BOMs and related costing processes
- Investigate variances in the gross margin including detailed product margin and manufacturing line profitability analysis
- Prepare Daily, weekly and Monthly Production Yield and Labour Reports.
- Produce various management reports to deadlines
- Financial control of inventory including accounting, valuation and obsolescence management
- Support the preparation of budgets including the development of robust forecast and budget models
- Support production managers in understanding product costs and driving improvement in product margins
- Support the project management office with financial analysis
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of the efficiency and contribution of the finance function

Prepare ad-hoc analysis as required
**Experience, Knowledge, Competencies and Skills required**:

- CIMA / ACCA / ACA with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience in a similar finance role
- Strong cost systems experience with excellent numerical and analytical skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Motivated, self-starter with background in process improvement
- Ability to adopt to multiple tasks and a changing environment
- Computer literacy and a high level of Excel expertise essential
- Experience of integrated ERP and Lean Systems advantageous

Fluency of English both written and verbal
.