Assistant Management Accountant

Job Title: Assistant Management Accountant

Department: Finance

Reports to: Accounts Specialist

About us:

Epson Telford Limited was established in 1987, we are on a 50-acre site and operate a 24/5 manufacturing site.

We are the only European manufacturing and distribution site for ink cartridges and textile inks. These products are shipped to an Epson warehouse in Germany where they are then distributed throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Quality and innovation is at the heart of everything we do, from our Cleanroom environment to our in-house machinery, design and technology improvements from which we use our own Epson 6-axis robots.

Salary:

Up to £32,500

Hours of work:

Days - Monday to Thursday 8.30am to 5.00pm, Friday 8.30am to 4.00pm

Duties and Responsibilities:

• The job holder will be responsible for the collection, checking and collation of the production volumes, material costs and stock forecasts for the Budgeting and Forecasting process. Collating the information prepared by the Financial section with the Costing data to produce a selling price. Provide backing information in a summary format, highlighting any changes in conditions, and justifying and price changes for review by senior management

Providing support for stock takes, taking full control of the audit of financial data and liaison with External Auditors

The role will require the job holder to be able to understand and keep up to date with the UK statutory accounting standards (FRS, SSAP), international standards (GAAP) where applicable, Epson accounting standards, and be able to apply these to the accounts. The jobholder will also need to be able to explain to internal and external auditors, EEB and SEC accountancy staff where there is any conflict between any of these standards

Providing back up to the Management Accountant in:

• Producing total Company Stock Information used by Senior Management at ETL, and reported to EEB / SEC
• Maintaining Cost Cycles on SAP to ensure cost allocation in the accounts is accurate.
• Controlling and developing SAP Systems so that information is produced accurately, timely and efficiently
• Setting and maintaining standard costs on SAP to include any movements in material costs, and the calculation of labour and overhead rates. Any changes to the labour and overhead rates should have sufficient supporting calculations for justification to ETL Management and External Auditors.