Key Responsibilities:
1. Identify financial status by comparing and analysing actual results with plans and forecasts.
• Liaising with procurement team to compare and contrast budgeting P & Ls vs Actuals at customer and trade level
2. Improve financial status by analysing results; monitoring variances; identifying trends; recommending actions to management.
• Review intermonth variances and review costs against company procedures e.g. profit expectations and director sign off.
• Review open reserves to identify trends and compare actual invoices v open reserves.
3. Guide cost analysis process by establishing and enforcing policies and procedures; providing trends and forecasts; explaining processes and techniques; recommending actions.
• Enforce company policies and procedures and offer training to departments and team members to ensure costing improvement.
4. Recommend actions by analysing and interpreting data and making comparative analyses; studying proposed changes in methods and materials.
• Liaise with all members of the business to suggest best practices and make efficiencies to the costing process.
5. Increase productivity by developing automated accounting applications; coordinating information requirements.
6. Support operational and commercial departments where required, such as:
• Making them aware of any changes/additions needed to SOP's.
• Ensuring you are comfortable with the rollout of any new tasks, helping to ensure these go smoothly.
• Helping with writing new process SOP's.
• Helping with data integrity checks when required, weekly, monthly or quarterly.
• Ensuring rates are up to date in SharePoint.
General Skills:
1. Experience in the logistics sector is preferred.
2. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
3. Excellent planning and attention to detail.
4. Enthusiastic, flexible, and self-motivated.
5. Excellent usage of computer/operating system (Microsoft Windows) along with other office applications (Microsoft Office), specifically Excel.
6. May be required to work overtime, weekends and/or be flexible in start/finish times.
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