Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity to join our finance team in Frating on a permanent basis as a Cost Assistant (internally known as Cost Accountant).

Reporting into one of the Senior Cost Accountants, this role will manage the end-to-end costing function for a commercial publishing division of one of the Penguin Random House Group Companies.

Liaising with internal and external stakeholders, this role will ensure integrity of our costing approach, and provide immediate visibility to any exceptions in terms of abnormal costs or costing activity.

As a Cost Accountant you will be responsible for maintaining a framework of accounting controls to enable the department to be operated in an efficient and effective manner, safeguarding assets and minimising liabilities.

You will ensure that the financial information within The Penguin Random House Group is accurate and reflects the true position of the company at any one point in time.

Role responsibilities:

• Check daily interface errors
• Investigate, resolve, and communicate discrepancies
• To establish and maintain a regular and formal review of Work in Progress Variances with Production and commercial finance teams in London
• Run reports in SAP to determine WIP variances for books printed
• Prepare variance schedules downloading reports in SAP to excel templates
• Post journals to transfer costs as required
• Arrange meetings with the team in London to agree and finalise variances
• Process agreed finalised variances to the profit & loss accounts
• Reconcile stock quantities for stock held in Frating and other offsite warehouses
• Post stock adjustments
• Balance sheet reconciliations
• Post monthly journals
• Run and reconcile monthly reports in SAP to the general ledger

What you\xe2\x80\x99ll have:

• Experience in reconciliations and variance analysis
• Attention to detail skills
• Experience in Excel
• Experience of SAP is an advantage

We are looking for an individual with good organisational skills who is able to manage their own workload and meet deadlines. You will be a self-starter who is able to identity and look into any unusual costs in the division.

This role is an opportunity to develop your skills and is a great way to get into accounting, we offer a range of accounting courses, such as ACCA, that are fully funded. More information about these courses can be discussed at interview stage.

This is a hybrid role where you will be expected to work from home three days a week and work from the office twice a week. Working patterns can be discussed at interview stage.

If this sounds like your next opportunity, please apply with your CV and cover letter by Monday 10th of July.

Please note, internally this role will known as a Cost Accountant.

Salary: \xc2\xa321,000 - \xc2\xa324,500 depending on how your skills and experience align to the role

Our employees are the heart of our business. We have a range of benefits to reflect our commitment to our employees, some of which are:

• 27 days paid holiday entitlement in year one (plus bank holidays), increasing a day each year up to 30 days
• Medical cover
• Life assurance
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Discounted gym membership
• Generous pension scheme
• Summer working hours (role dependent)
• Volunteering policy and charity matching
• Employee Assistance programme
• Mentoring programme
• Extended gender neutral parental leave
• Access to books and eBooks across Penguin Random House UK
• Each site has trained mental health first aiders
• We plant a tree for every new employee to our business

Our creativity is inspired by different perspectives, so we want our culture to be one of belonging, where everyone feels welcome and where differences are celebrated.

As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we\'re part of the offer an interview scheme. This is where disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role can opt in to get to the next recruitment stage. There may be some situations where volume of applicants means we can\'t take all eligible candidates to interview.

We want to make sure disabled applicants can be their best at each step of the recruitment journey. If you need adjustments during the application process, we encourage you to get in touch with us at . Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable to for us to support your adjustment request. Find out more about our approach here:

We partner with The Book Trade Charity, who provide financial assistance for people looking to get into the publishing industry; you can find more information and talk directly here:

Please note, we are not able to accept agency CVs for this role. Any CVs sent speculatively will not be eligible for a fee.

Company: Penguin Books Limited

Country: United Kingdom

State/Region: Essex

City: Frating

Postal Code: CO7

Job ID: 261437

Penguin Books