Management Accountant

Cosma provides a comprehensive range of body, chassis and engineering solutions to global customers. Through our robust product engineering, outstanding tooling capabilities and diverse process expertise, we continue to bring lightweight and innovative products to market.

Reporting to the Financial Controller, the Management Accountant will be responsible for preparing timely and accurate financial statements. The Management Accountant will also be expected to support the business by preparing relevant, timely and accurate information for analysis.

Role Responsibilities:
- Development, preparation, review and distribution of monthly management accounts
- Development, reporting and distribution of KPI's - financial and operational
- Preparation of period, quarter and annual financial packs
- Responsible for sales, material, labour and overhead cost budget and forecast preparation
- Variance analysis against budget and standard costs - review and explain costs variances including material usage, purchase price, productivity, etc
- Responsible for internal costing process, working with Commercial
- Burden/Overhead cost rate calculation
- Analyse product profitability against QAF - identification of variances
- Control and reporting of tooling cost and revenue, maintaining records and reconciliation to General Ledger
- Initiation, control and reporting of capital expenditure projects and post-implementation appraisals
- Preparation and review of weekly/monthly cash forecasts
- Foreign currency cashflow forecasts and preparation of currency hedging requirements
- Reporting and control of working capital levels and cashflow to plan/forecast
- Review and validation of Bill of Materials and routings
- Headcount reporting and reconciliation to payroll and HR records/reporting
- Assist with preparation of statutory accounts
- Assist and support internal, external and SOX audits
- Responsible for development and implementation of SOX controls and procedures
- Physical stocktakes root cause analysis and corrective actions of variances
- Involvement with continuous improvement (CI) projects, monitoring and reporting cost savings
- Maintenance of costs records relating to Government grants and preparation of Quarterly Monitoring Reports
- Key SAP user and point of contact for other SAP users

Essential
- Minimum Qualification Finalist ACCA/CIMA
- Experience of SAP financials
- Manufacturing and/or Automotive sector experience
- Excellent Microsoft skills

Desirable
- Experience of Hyperion
- Experience of staff management

Personal Attributes:
- Good interpersonal skills with "hands on" problem solving expertise
- Team player and promote a team approach to problem solving
- Work collaboratively to achieve project/company goals
- Ability to work in a fast paced environment
- Strong communicator both written and verbal
- Ability to influence and manage stakeholders
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Self-motivated and focused
- Ability to work under pressure with short completion times for projects
- Very organised
- Excellent analytical skills
- Proactive to change and in approach with a "can do attitude"
- Flexibility to travel overseas, if required

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