Cost Accountant

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Hengoed, Caerphilly, Wales
Entry level
Pharmaceutical
The Role
The Cost Accountant at Norgine is responsible for analyzing production costs, maintaining standard costs, supporting month-end accounting processes, managing inventory, assisting with audits, and collaborating with various teams for continuous improvement. They report to the M&S Finance Manager and are part of the Operations Finance team.
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Want a 3D Career? Join Norgine.

At Norgine, our colleagues Dare themselves to be different and try new things, Drive to achieve their goals and beyond, and Develop themselves and their community.

We call it the 3D career at Norgine and it offers you a fully-rounded experience with no limits.

Bring everything about yourself that you’re proud of, whether that’s your passion for making a difference, focus on others’ well-being, or intellectual curiosity to unleash in a fast-paced environment and supportive community.

In return, get a sense of belonging, a long-term career with ongoing development and upskilling, and a company that cares about people’s wellness as much as you do.

Because at Norgine, we transform lives with innovative healthcare solutions.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Cost Accountant, to join Norgine. The person holding this position will report to the M&S Finance Manager and be a member of the Operations Finance team.

The core responsibility of the Cost Accountant is to develop cost controls monitoring expenses and interpreting data to identify areas of focus to drive performance.

If you want a multi-dimensional 3D career in a leading healthcare organisation, join us.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:

• Cost Analysis: Responsible for analysing and reporting on costs above gross profit, including, material usage, scrap production, direct labour and variable expenses. Provide production analytics to understand and report on site performance for both the factories, one in Wales the other France

• Standard Costing: Developing, understanding, and maintaining standard costs to ensure precise cost management and pricing

• Continuous Improvement: Collaborate with operations, procurement, and engineering teams to drive continuous improvement programs aimed at reducing product costs

• Month-End Support: Support month-end and year-end accounting processes, including the preparation of journal entries and necessary analysis, while supporting the factory finance leads

• Inventory Management: Managing inventory, including reconciling inventory balances and calculating excess and obsolete inventory

• Audit: Assist with external audit

• Ad hoc: Support other areas of the function when required

Requirements

• Qualified Accountant; Finance background; experience in a multinational environment

• Experience in the manufacturing sector required

• Analytically strong with highly developed knowledge and ability to use IT systems to improve processes and convert data into meaningful business information

• Conversant and knowledgeable of local accounting

• Well developed planning and organisational skills with proven ability to meet deadlines

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Structured approach to problem solving




Benefits

Our benefits may vary per location. Please liaise with the Norgine TA representative to obtain more information.

Sound good? Find out more about the career you’ll have with Norgine, then apply here.

The Company
HQ: Amsterdam
980 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

Norgine is a leading European specialist pharmaceutical company that has been bringing transformative medicines to patients for over a century. Our commitment to transforming people’s lives drives everything we do and our European experience, fully integrated infrastructure and exceptional partnership approach enables us to quickly apply creative solutions to bring life-changing medicines to patients that they may not otherwise be able to access. Norgine is proud to have helped 24 million patients around the world in 2021 and generated €505 million in net product sales, a growth of 10% over 2020.

Norgine has a direct presence in 16 European countries, as well as Australia and New Zealand. We also have a strong global network of partnerships in non-Norgine markets. We are a flexible and fully integrated pharmaceutical business, with manufacturing (Hengoed, Wales and Dreux, France), third party supply networks and significant product development capabilities, in addition to our sales and marketing infrastructure. This enables us to acquire, develop and commercialise specialist and innovative products that make a real difference to the lives of patients around the world.

In 2012, Norgine established Norgine Ventures, a complementary business which supports innovative healthcare companies through the provision of debt-like financing in Europe and the US. For more information, please visit www.norgineventures.com.

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