Senior Cost Accountant

As a Senior Cost Accountant in Witney, you will work in a modern, highly automated state of the art facility, participating in the daily operations of the Finance department.Your responsibilities will include:

• Completing and submitting planning schedules for the Annual Plan, Quarterly Latest Best Estimates, and Long Range (5 year) Plans as per the Divisional calendar, with the aim of obtaining drivers for variances from the business and presenting results to Senior leadership.
• The role also involves understanding, owning, and supervising the annual standard cost-setting process for all manufactured product lines, including detailed manufacturing costing analysis and variances from standard (e.g. Labour efficiencies, Volume absorption, Material Usage, Purchase Price Variances).
• You will Business Partner Operations, participating in relevant onsite meetings to understand key operational issues and impact on the Financials. The role includes holding the business accountable for delivering against plans, committed outputs, and results.
• Additionally, you will identify and implement cost savings in materials and labour, manage inventory planning, and conduct timely monthly reviews of relevant balance sheet reconciliations.
• You will also share internal and external audit compliance activities with the rest of the Finance team.
• You will experience times when you're working on process improvement initiatives and projects with the support of external systems consultants to achieve quality reporting as well as time and cost efficiencies.
• On a more regular basis, you'll, collaborate with the wider Finance team on the timely completion of month-end tasks, including preparing and sending relevant reports on time and in full to various parties across the business and division.
• Supervisory responsibility for a small team of 2 Costing Analysts.