
Assistant Cost Accountant
- Portsmouth
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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 standardisation 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.
- Intermediate use of Excel, including pivot tables and Lookups.
- Strong analytical skills and high level of attention to detail.
- Able to create standardised 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!