Accountant (melbourne)

The Role

Reporting directly to our CFO, you'll own the cost accounting function across manufacturing, wholesale, and retail — playing a key role in how we understand, control, and improve performance.

This is a hands‐on role with real breadth — from building standard costs and bill of materials through to margin reporting, forecasting, and supporting S&OP. In short: you won't just report the numbers — you'll help shape them.

What You'll Be Doing

• Build and fine‐tune bill of materials and standard costs across all products and sites.
• Keep costing across labour, production, and materials accurate and dialled in.
• Run systems that are tight, reliable, and always decision‐ready.
• Dive into monthly consumption, recoveries, and variances — and actually make sense of them.
• Turn numbers into clear, actionable insight – not just spreadsheets no one reads.
• Build dashboards and reports that people actually want to open.

Product & Operations Support

• Partner with teams to cost current products before they hit the shelves.
• Work closely with sales and ops on forecasting and S&OP.
• Help us understand exactly where we're making money... and where we're leaking it.

Inventory & Controls

• Own inventory reconciliations, stocktakes, and cycle counts end‐to‐end.
• Keep everything clean, accurate, and under control – no surprises.

Reporting & Planning

• Deliver weekly sales and margin reporting across customers, brands, and channels.
• Support budgeting across cost centres (and keep it grounded in reality).
• Produce monthly reporting including Flash P&L, Business Reviews, and Risks & Opportunities.

About You

• CA or CPA qualified with a degree in Accounting or Commerce.
• 2+ years post‐qualification experience in accounting.
• Solid, hands‐on experience in a food manufacturing environment (this one's a must!).
• Strong ERP skills across BOMs, standard costing, and variance analysis.
• You can hit deadlines without cutting corners.
• Clear communicator who can work with finance, ops, and production (and speak all their languages).
• Comfortable in fast‐moving, sometimes messy environments – you bring clarity where others see chaos.

The Kind of Person Who Thrives Here

• Cash‐focused, commercially sharp, and operationally curious.
• Low ego, high ownership – happy to roll sleeves up.
• Calm, decisive, and pragmatic under pressure.
• Comfortable making decisions with imperfect information.
• Naturally curious about how the business really works.
• Resilient, outcome‐driven, and allergic to unnecessary complexity.