We have a fantastic opportunity for a Controlling Trainee to join our Controlling Department.
The successful candidate will be responsible for providing accurate and timely information to the rest of the business to enable operational and strategic planning, to analyse performance and to improve profitability
An overview of the role responsibilities:
1. Material settlement (reporting, chairing & investigation of variances including material
2. projects)
3. Producing customer margin trackers (reporting & investigation of performance)
4. Provide accurate costings (incl. cost mitigation work) to the business as and when
5. required
6. Setting up material masters in SAP for new products
7. Monthly costing runs on SAP
8. Ensuring material variances are up to date in SAP
9. Post launch reviews as and when required
10. Financial viability of promotional capacity requests
11. Promotional analysis to be kept up to date
12. Weekly labour analysis
13. SAP v MERC (daily uploads & monthly reporting)
14. Customer fixed cost report
15. Maintain all Operational Dashboards weekly & monthly
16. Maintain Sales Dashboards monthly
17. Maintain NC Pack monthly
18. Maintain Maintenance Spend Pack
19. Forecast 2 report
20. Month end variance analysis & Reporting
21. Management accounts pack preparation
22. Business Plan preparation
23. Profit improvement tracking & challenging of performance
24. Continually looking at ways to improve the processes/ procedures of the Controlling
25. department
26. Building effective cross-departmental relationships
The successful candidate will have effective analytical and numerical skills with exceptional attention to detail.
Ideally, candidates will have demonstrable experience of SAP and Excel.
Applicants should be A level qualified in related field as well as part qualified AAT/CIMA/ACCA.