- GMFJ Reference
259308
- Wages
£28,000 p/a
- Hours
34.50 per week
- Date Posted
03/04/2025
- Start Date
12/05/2025
- Approx. Duration
36 months
- Location
Shefford
- Status
Now Taking Applications
- Sector
Accountancy
- Opportunity Type
Higher Level 7
- Apprenticeship Standard
Accountancy or taxation professional (ST0001)
- Employer
ACO Technologies
Description
Business Partner to Operations to drive financial performance and efficiency.
Areas of focus include:
- Monthly P&L review meetings - providing effective challenge and monitoring adherence to action plans.
- Tracking cost price changes and evaluating the impact on margin.
- Analysis of standard costs.
- Production and Facilities efficiencies.
- Analysing the financial impact of outsourcing options and procurement.
- Factory downtime/uptime and headcount utilisation.
- Capex reviews.
- Detailed understanding of logistics costs.
- Stock analysis and reporting.
- Operations KPI reporting.
- Assistance with year-end audit to include stock valuation/provision (incl. journal postings) and labour and overhead recovery.
Business Partner to Commercial to provide financial insights that drive decision-making and business performance. Areas of focus include:
- Responsibility for creation and maintenance of inter-company price lists and communicating with group companies and internal sales teams.
- Analyse Operations impacts on Commercial decision making, plus other ad hoc support.
- Ensure customer rebates are calculated accurately on a monthly basis, accrued in the management accounts and origination of payment requests.
- Post the rebate journal, JIF (marketing) journal and associated BS reconciliations.
- Turnover reporting in customer portals.
- Review and reporting of Customer Marketing expenditure.
- Customer price list updates (CAFs) plus pricing system updates (CRM & X3).
- Business analysis and reporting as required.
For more information about this vacancy please contact Kaplan Financial on kaplan.recruitment@kaplan.co.uk (Ref ID: 259308)
Company website : www.aco.co.uk
- Strong numerical and analytical skills with attention to detail.
- Familiarity with financial reporting and data analysis is an advantage but not essential.
- Ability and desire to collaborate and communicate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
- Driven to achieve results.
- To attend and actively participate in business meetings.
- To promote equality and diversity as part of the culture of ACO.
- To undertake any other reasonable request and accept reasonably delegated additional responsibility from a manager.
Accounting And Taxation Professional Apprenticeship Level 7.
If you’re looking to develop your accountancy skills to lead finance departments or provide management accounting consultancy, CIMA is your ticket. CIMA is split into Certificate, a standalone ‘beginner’ qualification, and Professional, which is split into three levels: Operational, Management, and Strategic.
- The Certificate in Business Accounting is your starting point if you're new to accountancy. You'll learn the fundamentals of business economics, financial accounting, management accounting, and ethical considerations of commercial activity.
- Operational teaches you about organisational management, costs and analysis used in production, and financial reporting and taxation.
- Management equips you with the skills to perform advanced management accounting and advanced financial reporting tasks.
- Strategic develops your leadership and strategic management abilities, and teaches you about risk management and financial strategy.
- Willingness and aptitude to undertake and successfully complete a relevant task is essential.
- A keen interest in finance and business strategy.
- Personable, persuasive and influential.
- Self-motivated and able to work unsupervised with the desire to achieve goals and company aspirations.
Possible opportunity to step into Finance Business Partner role once fully qualified. Expected salary on successful completion of all modules and EPA will be circa £40,000 per annum.
Benefits include:
- 25 days annual leave + BH - increases to 28 with length of service.
- Hybrid Working - Office x 3 days minimum
- Home x 1 day maximum – once deemed competent to WFH.
Study x 1 day per week – flexible depending on education arrangements.
Working hours:
Mon-Thur 9 :00am - 5:00pm, Friday 9:00am - 4:30pm