What youll be doing:
This is a hands-on role where youll 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 required
- Experience in a finance or management accounting role, ideally within manufacturing or FMCG
- Part-qualified CIMA or AAT qualified would be advantageous
- Strong attention to detail and confidence working with large datasets and systems
IPS Finance has 45 years experience in the Yorkshire accountancy recruitment market. We have built our business on long term relationships with both individuals and clients in all sectors, bringing real benefits to all concerned. Please visit our website to view the latest accountancy / finance and practice opportunities.