Position: Senior Administrator
Area: Tameside (Greater Manchester)
Salary: £30k - £35k
The Company: Large and most trusted engineering company, providing products and services to aerospace, defence and commercial sectors
The Role:
- My client are looking to appoint a Senior Administrator (with progression to the role of Commercial Manager) with experience and understanding of payroll, general business administration functions, SAP and finance in a manufacturing environment to support their Commercial Director and wider senior management team within their sheet metal and assembly business.
- Supporting the business support team member
Administrative (Finance / Accounts)
- Processing new customer/supplier accounts
- Processing purchase invoices
- Dealing with and resolving customer/supplier invoice queries
- Raising purchase orders
- Managing any proforma supplier accounts
- Responsible for supplier statement reconciliations
Commercial
- Reviewing work in progress (WIP) costs against budgeted costs and analysing any over spend
- Customer/project analysis and reviewing packages of work
- Analysing previous manufacturing costs to support the sales and estimating team
- Approve contract review
- Monitor APR (Advance production reserve)
- Sales forecasting
- Produce various KPI's
- Issue Management
- Resolve sale ledger debt issues
- Manage customer commercial issues
- Monthly reviews with onsite accountant around WIP and overheads
- Reviewing supplier terms and conditions Director final sign off
- Recruitment onboarding process
- Training
- Releasing purchase orders
- Processing sales invoices
- Raising recharges
Payroll, providing cover and support processing:
- Wages
- Annual leave requirements
- Timesheets
Adhoc
- Leading on system improvements and improving business processes
- Reviewing new business improvement initiatives
- Office 5S champion
Requirements:
- Excellent Microsoft office PC skills (mostly excel)
- Good understanding of SAP / other similar system in a manufacturing / production environment
- Confident and professional when speaking to colleagues, clients and suppliers
- Excellent communications skills are imperative
- Must have good team working ethic, be highly pro-active and motivated.
- The ability to work flexible hours should the business need arise.
- Suitable training will be offered for the right candidate.
