Cost Accountant

Page Personnel is partnering with a successful business based in Southampton who are looking for a Cost Accountant to join their accountancy team on a full time permanent basis.

Client Details

Our client is a successful business based in Southampton who have seen rapid growth in the past 12 months. They do require travel to their office but do offer hybrid working.

Description

As the Cost Accountant you will be responsible for:

• Monthly journal creation for all accrual and prepayments for the IS & Group Investment functions.
• Ensure that monthly, quarterly, and annual performance is accurately reported and ready for review by Business Finance in accordance with published timetables.
• Ensure that all material variances to Budget, latest forecast and Prior Year are explained clearly and concisely
• Work with the Finance Shared Service Centre, the Statutory Compliance and GL teams, as well as Business Managers to gain a full understanding of financial performance.
• Work with fellow controllers and the Global Business Controller to ensure that a common process with common templates are followed.
• Act as an interface between Business Finance and the Statutory Compliance and GL teams and the Finance Shared Service Centre, helping to resolve any reporting and process issues.
• Ensure that the Balance Sheet is reviewed and understood and that any risks and opportunities in the Balance Sheet are clearly communicated to Business Finance in liaison with the GL team.
• Eliminate or minimise employee's exposure to risks by reviewing, regularly, the health and safety risk register, applying appropriate controls, communicating results of risk assessment, and ensuring health and safety is considered in the planning and execution of all LR activities.
• Manage your own compliance with health and safety rules, instructions, systems, and legal requirements, ensuring employees are suitably trained and adequate resources are available to work safely.
• Manage your own compliance with health and safety rules, instructions, systems, and legal requirements, ensuring employees are suitably trained and adequate resources are available to work safely.

Profile

To be successful for the Cost Accountant role , you must:

• Working towards a recognised professional accountancy qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) or qualified AAT with experience of operating in a finance team
• Being regarded as a trusted and credible resource by key stakeholders within both business and/or area management teams; able to build strong relationships. Have a 'hands on' approach, visible across the businesses with good communication and other interpersonal skills.
• An enthusiastic and committed team player who can establish and maintain strong relationships with business leaders and across the Finance community.
• Able to demonstrate a thorough understanding of a strong control framework

Job Offer

Salary £25,000 - £35,000