Cost Controller

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A key role providing reporting, analysis and insight across the company, ensuring cost control, supporting decision making and continuous improvement activities, as well as championing a robust internal control environment.

Role outline:

• Deliver the monthly management accounting and forecasting activities on site, ensuring accurate and timely submissions (coordinating activities across multiple departments, analysing / interpreting results, reporting on a local and Group level).
• Collaborating with the Financial Accounting Manager, Operations, and the Senior Leadership Team, support the preparation and submission of the annual business plan.
• Deliver ad-hoc reporting, analysis, insight, and recommendations, which aid management decision making, and work closely with operational teams to provide support for continuous improvement and cost reduction projects.
• Drive digitalisation projects in the finance department.
• Champion internal control compliance and recommend / implement process improvements, ensuring adherence to local and Group policies.
• Provide support for internal and external audits.
• Play an active role in the leadership team, engaging in development training sessions, and collaborating with other team leaders on continuous improvement initiatives.

Education / Qualifciation / Experience:

• Standard costing experience within a manufacturing organisation.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft office, especially Excel.
• Good working knowledge of ERP systems (eg. SysPro, SAP or similar).

Person Specification:

• Ability to deliver accurate, timely information, and able to narrate the numbers.
• Able to deliver concise, simple communication tailored to the audience.
• Well organised and structured approach.
• Approachable and pragmatic.
• A passion for learning.
• An interest in AI and digitalisation.

At Atlas Copco, we are committed to creating a caring and inclusive environment. Our collaborative culture means you will quickly become part of our team and feel a sense of belonging. We give you the support and inspiration you need to continuously learn and grow. By doing this, we enable you to connect your own individual drive to our group purpose and together contribute to a better tomorrow.

We continuously invest in our people so that everyone can realize their full potential, and our generous pension scheme with an employer contribution of up to 10% will help you plan for your future. Our ambition is to offer competitive salaries and benefits, continuous learning and a healthy work-life balance. We are value-driven and are always looking for people who share our culture of innovation, commitment and collaboration.     

• Safety and well-being
   

The health and well-being of our people are vital to us, which is why we set very ambitious standards for workplace safety. We promote a healthy and active lifestyle and offer a range of physical and mental fitness opportunities as well as private medical care and a health cashplan worth over £700 per year.

• Continuous Learning

As a learning organization, we prepare our people for a dynamic business environment and support their professional as well as personal development by making learning easy, accessible and personal and providing subsidised study programs.

• Belonging

At Atlas Copco we know that people make it happen. We also know that our people are the most crucial component for success. With initiatives such as our DE&I Committee, Employee Forum and our range of ambassador programs we encourage our people to be the change they want to see, to take up leadership opportunities and use their knowledge and their voices to enhance our culture.

• Sustainability

For us sustainability is not just a label we put on how we do business. Thinking about long-term results and the various ways in which we make an impact to protect both people and the planet has long been a part of who we are and what we do. At Deeside, we walk the talk, and we empower our people as part of our Eco Steering Committee to take action to achieve our sustainability goals.

• Giving back

Water for All is the Atlas Copco Group’s main community engagement initiative. Through the dedicated and passionate work of volunteering employees, Water for All funds projects which empower people through access to clean drinking water, sanitation and hygiene. All employee donations are matched by twice as much by Atlas Copco. 

Within Atlas Copco people make change happen so how you think will set you apart.  We believe that an active growth mindset is empowering and will enable us to deliver to the best of our ability and you will be encouraged and supported to act to identify ‘a better way’ to make products and people’s quality of life better.  If you are the right person, then you will instinctively know that the technical skills of our team are enhanced by their soft skills and that we need both to reach our optimal performance.

Diverse by nature and inclusive by choice
Bright ideas come from all of us. The more unique perspectives we embrace, the more innovative we are. Together we build a culture where difference is valued and we share a deep sense of purpose and belonging.