Are you looking to build a long-term career in Accountancy? Then look no further! Start your career today with a level 7 apprenticeship with ACO Technologies and Kaplan. You will be dealing with financial reports, stock analysis and costs whilst working towards the CIMA qualification.
Business Partner to Operations to drive financial performance and efficiency.
Areas of focus include:
- Monthly P&L review meetings - providing effective challenge and monitoring adherence to action plans.
- Tracking cost price changes and evaluating the impact on margin.
- Analysis of standard costs.
- Production and Facilities efficiencies.
- Analysing the financial impact of outsourcing options and procurement.
- Factory downtime/uptime and headcount utilisation.
- Capex reviews.
- Detailed understanding of logistics costs.
- Stock analysis and reporting.
- Operations KPI reporting.
- Assistance with year-end audit to include stock valuation/provision (incl. journal postings) and labour and overhead recovery.
Business Partner to Commercial to provide financial insights that drive decision-making and business performance. Areas of focus include:
- Responsibility for creation and maintenance of inter-company price lists and communicating with group companies and internal sales teams.
- Analyse Operations impacts on Commercial decision making, plus other ad hoc support.
- Ensure customer rebates are calculated accurately on a monthly basis, accrued in the management accounts and origination of payment requests.
- Post the rebate journal, JIF (marketing) journal and associated BS reconciliations.
- Turnover reporting in customer portals.
- Review and reporting of Customer Marketing expenditure.
- Customer price list updates (CAFs) plus pricing system updates (CRM & X3).
- Business analysis and reporting as required.