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Interim Project Accountant (6 Month FTC)

Derby & London (Hybrid working 4 working from home and one day in office)

£55,000 + Bonus + Pension

Our client is a manufacturing SME who are rapidly growing and looking to double their turnover as part of their 3 – 5 year strategic plan. Their CFO and Number Two in finance have identified the need to recruit a new person to build credibility around costings/ forecasting and sales margins whilst business partnering with the Engineers to ‘get underneath’ the numbers and ensure profitability and margin integrity remain consistent throughout the many manufacturing/ engineering projects the company undertakes.

With future expansion, and great growth prospects this position offers the opportunity for someone to truly add value, challenge the numbers and support the Engineers to continue to grow the profitability and integrity of the project accounting side of a busy, international business!

Duties:

• Reporting directly to the FC and working the Senior Leadership Team, Engineering, Commercial and Production Managers
• Responsible for overseeing the day-to-day costings and financial planning and analysis for the business – including currently outsourced factory production costs, costs of raw materials as well as customer margin management (existing customer, new customers, new lines of business).
• Create visibility of all production costs and provide ongoing weekly and monthly analysis of cost variability from suppliers
• Hands on responsibility for the accounting factory – debits and credits, journals accruals prepayments
• Assist in the ongoing transition to a new SAP For Design ERP system across finance and operations
• Potentially management of an extensive warehouse and large inventory of stock
• Financial Planning and Analysis
• Provide support to the wider Engineering Sales/ Manufacturing/ Operations / Production
• Maintain and develop better insights into integrated monthly reporting, forecasting, cash control and margin analysis (cost of sales etc.)
• Balance sheet reconciliations
• Responsible for planning and analysing material, labour and overhead costs for the products manufactured ‘offshore’.
• Execute and improve existing analysis of inventory and COGS (Cost of Goods Sold) accounting processes
• Generate accurate weekly, monthly, and ad hoc financial analysis reports to provide visibility into and analysis of our expected (budgeted) and actual costs of goods sold and inventory levels
• Pull apart and critically review existing MRP data sets and reportage and develop strategies and processes to improve financial information and data integrity
• Perform periodic cost reviews and analysis to recommend and implement changes (ongoing emphasis on job costings)
• Creation of annual budget and rolling 3 – 5 year plans for use by the FC, CFO, Board and Senior Leadership Team
• Assisting in ongoing development of commercial negotiations with suppliers of raw materials to secure best price
• Review of customer contracts and contract terms regarding final account terms

To be successful:

• You will be a qualified accountant – ACA, ACCA, ACMA or studying towards a finance qualification
• Possess a proven ability in taking ownership of various projects
• An ability to challenge and ‘push-back’ to engineering/ production managers and experience in maintaining and delivering accurate reports to key stakeholders.
• Be an intelligent, proactive individual who is proactive, has a ‘can do’ attitude.
• Have excellent Excel skills and able to build basic Financial Models
• Good experience using other ERP/ Finance Systems

This is a fixed term contract position that is likely to turn into a permanent contract. You will need to be available to start within 1 month.