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Edwards & Pearce
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Pontefract, West Yorkshire WF8, England
£35,000 - £38,000 per year
Full Time
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Sonic Summary
- This is a permanent position responsible for preparing, developing, and analyzing Cost and Yield accounts in a food manufacturing environment, particularly in meat production.
- The role involves calculating daily operational variances, cost reporting, and ensuring accurate yield actions with the Operations teams.
- Candidates should have experience in food manufacturing, ideally meat, along with qualifications such as AAT, CIMA, ACCA, or QBE.
- The position offers a salary of £40,000 to £45,000, depending on experience, and includes benefits like pension and parking.
- The successful candidate will also engage in stock reconciliation and collaborate with various departments to ensure reporting accuracy.
THE BENEFITS:
Pension + Parking
THE ROLE:
The duties of this role include, but are not limited to:
Calculate the daily operational variances including meat costs (yield, ppv if applicable, substitution, giveaway & waste)
Cost reporting for labour, packaging, cooking, distribution and coldstore including variances to standard, liaising with payroll regarding the daily labour costs as appropriate.
Action poor/good yields with the Operations teams.
Ensure yield actions are completed & any appropriate training or feedback is provided in a timely manner.
Updating system changes as required e.g. Cost spec / BOM / SI reports / maintenance explorer.
Ensure new products set up correctly in order to measure all key direct costs.
Update CM reporting.
Liaise with commercial, planning, ops, technical & IT to ensure accuracy of reporting & correct meat usage in line with standards.
Identifying areas for profit improvement & sustained benefits if found
Stock reconciliation for all areas
Ensure costs and yields used in product costings and renewals / tenders are accurate
Educate key personnel across the business as appropriate, creating a collaborative and multiskilled reconciliation process.
Cover / support Finance in roles as required
Ad-hoc reports are required to fulfil the needs of the company.
Comply with Company Policy to ensure that adhered on all matters concerning Health and Safety, reporting any breaches as appropriate.
Any other relevant duties required by Management or the Company.
THE CANDIDATE:
Experience within food manufacturing, ideally meat.
AAT/CIMA/ACCA/QBE
Stock control experience
Excellent IT skills
THE COMPANY:
A leading manufacturer
THE CONSULTANCY:
Edwards & Pearce acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. Edwards & Pearce is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
