Manufacturing Accountant

Exciting Manufacturing Accountant role - Swansea - flexible working

Well established fast growth manufacturer in Swansea with an exciting future. Brand new Manufacturing Accountant role providing a much needed link between Operations and Manufacturing. Reporting directly to the Operations Director the key responsibilities are broad and include:

COSTING

• Costing of BOMs
• Standard costing review
• Production order review and reconciliation
• Investigation of monthly P&L valuation differences (e.g. stock gains and losses)
• Labour absorption rate maintenance

STOCK

• Monitoring of high-risk stock locations (e.g. to cover risk of inaccuracy)
• Consignment stock reconciliation (to customer sales reports) * Intercompany inventory/asset movement reconciliation
• Produce a master monthly stock report, covering:
• Obsolescence
• Slow moving stock
• Lead times
• Details of overstocked components
• Details of difficult to obtain components
• Involvement in perpetual and year-end inventory counts
• GRNI (Goods Received Not Invoiced) clearing
• GIT (Goods In Transit) reconciliation
• WIP (Work in Progress) clearing
• Audit of MRP (Materials Requirement Planning) /purchasing against existing stock levels

QUALITY/SCRAP:

• Review of scrap write-off
• Weekly meeting with Quality department on defective stock and quarantine location activity
• Act as lead for suppler reclaims and associated meetings

ERP UTILISATION

• Drive optimisation of Production (& Warehouse if necessary) processes and controls with regards to SAP usage
• Assisting production department with SAP difficulties
• System utilisation - continuous improvement:
• Identify need for, and arrange, training where required
• Look at more efficient ways of using the system for production
• Ensure smooth implementation of hardware upgrades (e.g. PDAs)
• Optimisation of reports in use

The ideal candidate will have manufacturing accounting/factory accounting experience and experience of the core areas of the role ie costing, stock management, ERP utilisation for management. SAP experience would be beneficial, although not essential; however the successful candidate will need to be system savvy within the context of manufacturing.

You may be a fully qualified Accountant, ideally achieved through the CIMA route, although we are also keen on those who are "qualified by experience." You must be prepared to act as a true business partner between Operations and Finance.

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