Cost Accountant

Job Title: Cost & Manufacturing Accountant

Location: Clevedon, Somerset

Type of Employment: Full Time, Permanent position

Working Hours: Hybrid; Monday-Friday, 8:30am-5:00pm

About Us

Hydro International, a CRH Company, is a leading global provider of advanced products, services, and expertise to help municipal, industrial and construction customers to improve their water management processes, increase operational performance, and reduce environmental impact. With over 40 years of experience and a reputation for engineering excellence, businesses, and public bodies all over the world rely on our products, services, and integrated solutions to reduce flood risk, improve water treatment, and protect the environment from water pollution. We have a network of over 80 distribution partners and serve customers in more than 40 countries. As part of CRH Infrastructure Products, we are leading the water management industry with innovative, sustainable solutions and a safety-first mindset.

We are looking for a confident, self-motivated, flexible team player to join our busy finance team and offer Key support for the Head of Accounting and Supply Chain Director with the financial management, control and reporting for the Procurement and Manufacturing Division.

This role will be based at the Head Office in Clevedon and there is the option of Hybrid working with at least 3 days a week in the office.

Competence & Qualifications:

• Recognised accountancy qualification.
• Proven experience as a Cost Accountant, Cost Analyst, Accountant, or in a similar role.
• Demonstrated ability to implement high standards of financial and manufacturing controls, along with robust management information reporting.
• Cost accountancy experience within a manufacturing environment.
• Experience working with supply chain and procurement teams (desirable but not essential).

Skills & Attributes:

• Strong analytical skills with proficiency in financial systems and Microsoft Excel.
• Knowledge of best practice manufacturing accounting.
• Experience using Microsoft Business Central.

Key Duties:

1. Undertaking the following aspects of the Hydro Procurement and Manufacturing division:

• Develop robust processes to enable production of timely and technically accurate financial information for the Procurement and Manufacturing Cost Centre, to include liaison with key stakeholders.
• Develop systems and processes to enable the analysis of cost of goods, production costs, associated variances, and help support the management of these costs.
• Provide support to management to ensure all costs are correctly recorded and monitored.
• Providing and managing any contractual financial information e.g. supplier discounts, delivery timelines, etc.
• Balance sheet reconciliations for all inventory accounts and support FC’s with other related balance sheet reconciliations.
• Undertaking profitability analysis on products/products level analysis, inventory and production variance analysis, ad hoc analysis.
• Collaborate with production, supply chain, and procurement teams.
• Set up and maintain standard costing models to reflect accurate costs.
• Identify and implement cost-saving and efficiency improvement initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with financial regulations and support audit preparations.
• Support any other financial projects.

2. Provide assistance to the Head of Accounting with other duties across the UK finance team as reasonably required, including the provision of holiday/absence cover for other roles within the team.

Why work for us?

- 2 x Annual salary Life Cover

- Pension

- Sick pay policy

- Minimum of 25 days holiday per annum + Bank Holidays

- Mental Health First Aiders & Support programmes

- Training & Development

- Room for advancement