Supply Chain Accountant

MacKenzie King are excited to be recruiting a Supply Chain Accountant for a successful and growing manufacturing business, based near Woolpit. As part of continued growth, they are looking to appoint a Supply Chain Accountant to join their finance team in a newly created and highly commercial role.

This is an excellent opportunity for a part-qualified or newly qualified accountant who enjoys working closely with operational teams, analysing data, and helping drive business performance through meaningful financial insight.

As a Supply Chain Accountant you’ll act as a key business partner to Procurement and Supply Chain teams, supporting decision making through analysis, forecasting, costing and performance reporting.

Key Responsibilities:

• Managing and developing the standard costing process.
• Analysing product costs and identifying key cost drivers.
• Monitoring purchase price variances and investigating trends.
• Supporting inventory accounting, stock control and reconciliation activities.
• Providing analysis on freight and logistics costs.
• Partnering with procurement and supply chain stakeholders to improve performance and profitability.
• Supporting budgeting, forecasting and working capital planning.
• Contributing to continuous improvement initiatives across finance and operational processes.
• Attending operational and planning meetings to provide financial insight and challenge.

Skills & Attributes:

• Part-qualified or recently qualified ACCA, CIMA or equivalent.
• Experience in management accounting, financial analysis or business partnering.
• Strong Excel skills and confidence working with large, complex datasets.
• An analytical mindset with the ability to investigate variances and identify root causes.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to build relationships across non-finance functions.
• Previous exposure to manufacturing, supply chain, logistics or inventory environments would be advantageous but is not essential.