Assistant Cost Accountant

Pall Corporation; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000

Job description

Find what drives you on a team with a more than 70-year history of discovery, determination, and innovation. As a global leader in high-tech filtration, separation, and purification, Pall Corporation thrives on helping our customers protect people.

Our products serve a wide range of markets, so if your interests lie along the spectrum of Life Sciences to Industrial, you'll find a rewarding role here. For the exponentially curious, Pall is a place you can thrive and amplify your impact on the world.

Pall is proud to work alongside a community of Danaher companies. Together, we're pioneering the future of filtration, separation and purification.

Looking to improve your career within this fast-paced environment? This could be the ideal next opportunity for you with phenomenal opportunities and benefits.

We are recruiting an Assistant Cost Accountant to join our Finance team in Portsmouth. You will report into the BU Finance Manager and be responsible for performing standardized SAP CO transactions.

As Assistant Cost Accountant, you will have the following responsibilities:

• Standard cost planning as part of the annual AOP and new part number creation. Interaction with plant representatives in understanding BOM and routing changes.
• Production order (PDO), Project Systems (PS) and Sales Order process including the review of WIP and settlement of completed production orders.
• Review of audit logs and financial output to ensure completeness and accuracy.
• Completion of standard One Stream forms including inter-company profit, Headcount and Balance sheets.
• Monitoring AUC (Asset Under Construction).
• Cost centre spend review vs AOP and reporting key variances to plant cost centre owners.
• Completion of daily/weekly plant flash reports to show actual vs forecast performance vs key important metrics and financial performance.
• Completion of month end related activities within relevant deadlines.
• Build monthly spread templates and send to plant partners for forecast data.
• Drive standardization across the BUs.
• Perform adhoc analytics as requested by CO COE Finance Manager in support of the plant partners.
• Actively support and promote continuous improvement using the Danaher Business Systems Tools.

The successful candidate will have the following:

• Intermediate use of Excel, including pivot tables and Lookups.
• Strong analytical skills and high level of attention to detail.
• Able to create standardized instructions.
• Able to get to root cause and participate in applying corrective action.
• Knowledge of SAP preferred particularly in FI and CO functionality.
• Intermediate or advance level of study in professional accounting qualifications.
• Great interpersonal skills applicable across cultural and regional boundaries!

Study support is included in this role for those who are part qualified. Pall has accredited status for CIMA and ACCA.

Join our winning team today. Together, we'll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow's science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

At Danaher, we value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.