Costing Manager

Job title: Costing Manager
Salary: £35K - £50K
Location: Grimsby (Relocation package of up to £5,000 available!)
Hyrbid: Yes
Our client prides themselves on being more than just a food company. It's a place where you can grow your career, learn new skills, and make a positive impact on the world. They are a globally recognised business with a vision to be the most successful food company in the world.
You will manage the 2 junior cost accountants within the Business Performance team and will be responsible for overseeing the product costings and maintain accurate costings models for the various sites across the group and providing costing analysis.

At present many industries are struggling due to a wide range of economic factors, however our client is continually hitting impressive numbers with no signs of slowing down. this is due to both their diverse product range and their contracts with the UK's biggest supermarkets. The product line you will work on generates a turnover of £500m, with other product lines hitting around the £1000m mark.

Key Accountabilities:

• Product costing for new and existing products.
• Building and maintaining costing models/bills of material.
• Providing information on product costs, including "what if" analysis and advising best course of action to the business.
• Partnering with New Product Development to assess cost implications on products/product changes.
• Partnering with Commercial BP to ensure understanding of costings to give best view for tenders and new business.
• Provide analysis and information to support business tenders.
• Evaluating raw material alternatives and advise on the cost impacts of these options and recommend best use.
• Provide and undertake scenario analysis to key stakeholders on an ad-hoc basic
• Supporting the department on inflation calculations to assist with inflation recovery.
• Aid costing evaluation for any continuous improvement projects and advise if there are viable or not.
• Liaise and aid the management of current by-product stocks and approve any ad hoc sales.
• Implement and develop smarter ways of working within systems and processes.
• Ad-hoc project work.

Experience Required:

• Strong excel skills essential - VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, Pivot tables etc.
• Numerate with attention to detail.
• Able to manage a small team and uphold accountable and accurate standards in the ways of working.
• Able to work within a matrix structure.
• Excellent communicator both written and in verbal form.
• Logical thinker with the ability to create solutions to problems.
• Ability to multitask and organise work loads effectively to meet parallel deadlines.
• The role would suit an experienced cost accountant looking for more responsibility and progression from their current role.

If have some costing experience and you are interested in the position, or would like to find out more, apply now!