Cost Accountant

Ingersoll Rand Inc.; Redditch; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading industrial company in Redditch is searching for a qualified professional to manage standard costs and analyze inventory. The role involves responsibilities such as processing costs in SAP, reporting on inventory, and ensuring compliance with auditing standards. Ideal candidates should have manufacturing experience and be part or fully qualified in CIMA/ACCA. The position offers competitive benefits, including holidays, health cover, and an electric car scheme.

Benefits

25 Days Holiday + 8 Bank Holidays

Westfield Health Medical Cash Plan Cover

Death in Service Benefit of 4 x salary

Cycle scheme

Electric Car Scheme

10% of salary in shares after 1 year

Costco Gold Company membership

Employee Assistance Program

Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Policies

Qualifications

• Experience working with a Standard Costing system.
• Qualified by experience will be considered.

Responsibilities

• Control and process the annual standard cost roll procedure in SAP.
• Prepare analysis and reports on inventory regularly.
• Respond to external audit requests professionally.

Skills

Manufacturing experience

Ability to identify and investigate trends

Proficient in Microsoft Office applications

Education

Part/Fully qualified CIMA/ACCA (or equivalent)

Job description

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Gardner Denver is a leading provider of mission-critical flow control and compression equipment and associated aftermarket parts, consumables, and services, which it sells across multiple attractive end-markets within the industrial, energy and medical industries. Its broad and complete range of compressor, vacuum and blower products and services, along with its application expertise and over 160 years of engineering heritage, allows Gardner Denver to provide differentiated product and service offerings for its customers' specific uses.

Job Summary

This position is primarily responsible for maintaining the standard costs of the UK Industrials business (Redditch) and for analysing and maintaining inventory records on a regular basis.

Responsibilities

• Standard costs: control and processing of the annual standard cost roll procedure in SAP. In addition, perform regular standard cost updates as required by the business.
• Inventory: Prepares analysis and reports on inventory on a weekly and monthly basis and provides to local management. Ensures Inventory and WIP accounts are clean and cleardowns are done in a timely manner.
• Prepares reports analysing inventory aging in order to calculate provisions for Obsolete and Slow-Moving Inventory (OSMI)
• Assists with the coordination of the annual physical inventory preparation, count and reconciliation including book to count investigation and explanation.
• General Ledger: Preparation and posting of accurate and timely journal entries, including but not limited to, Cost of Sales, inventory and a variety of other manufacturing variances. At all times maintaining and controlling General Ledger integrity and system processing.
• SOX Controls:
  • Monthly: Cycle counting controls for Bradford and GXO sites.
  • Quarterly: Obsolete and Slow-Moving Inventory (OSMI) control
  • Annually: (i) Annual standard cost roll (ii) Physical inventory count
• External Audit: responds to external audit requests on a timely manner and closes out open items and issues in a professional manner.
• Reconciliations: Performs monthly balance sheet account reconciliations, which may include various accruals and prepayments, obsolete and slow-moving inventory provisions and any other requisite balance sheet reserves. Performs controls over accounts and helps meeting the companies SOX and audit requirements.
• Reports: Provides timely, accurate and professional reports that may include daily input / output updates, weekly shipping forecasts, inventory analysis plus annual federal and state tax type schedules required by both domestic and international locations
• Analysis: Performs as hoc analysis and works with operating personnel to identify cost and product cost issues and opportunities
• Liaise with senior management to assist in the preparation of annual budget and periodic forecast returns, providing detailed breakdown of the P&L and salient balance sheet items in readiness for corporate review.
• Monthly Orderbook Reporting
• Reconcile Consumption balances and investigate orders that are causing reconciling differences, then monitoring orders until items are closed out.
• Manage National Statistics Reports
• Quarterly Reporting: including OSMI, Goods in Transit, IC Profit in Inventory, IC Profit in Freight and Performance Obligations, to name a few.

Basic Qualifications

• Part/Fully qualified CIMA/ACCA (or equivalent)
• Qualified by experience will be considered.

Travel & Work Arrangements/Requirements

• Manufacturing experience
• Worked with Standard Costing system.
• Ability to identify and investigate trends and potential issue.
• Proficient in Microsoft office applications

What we Offer

• 25 Days Holiday + 8 Bank Holidays (Option to purchase 5 days after probation period)
• Westfield Health Medial Cash Plan Cover
• Death in Service Benefit of 4 x salary
• Cycle scheme (After probation period)
• Electric Car Scheme (After 1 year employment)
• 10% of salary in shares after 1 year of employment
• Costco Gold Company member, allowing employees to join.
• Employee Assistance Program
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Policies

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