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    "description": "<p>At <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Eakin Healthcare</span>, we put patients at the heart of everything we do. We are a family-owned global medical device company with a proud heritage of innovation and care. We deliver innovative solutions across Ostomy, Respiratory, and Surgical therapies, along with our Respond home delivery service. Founded over 50 years ago, we now have a team of over 700 dedicated people across three UK manufacturing sites, 12 international sales and distribution centres and export to over 60 countries. We’ve been recognised as a <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Great Place to Work®</span>! 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As Management Accountant – Operations, you will work closely with operational teams to turn financial and operational data into clear insight, helping to drive performance, support decision-making and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.</span></p>\n<p> </p>\n<p><span>Reporting to the Head of FP&amp;A – Operations, you will support key areas including product costing, variance analysis, scenario planning, operations finance reporting, KPI development and capital expenditure analysis. </span></p>\n<p> </p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">KEY ACTIVITIES</span></p>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Support the Head of FP&amp;A</span><span>, </span><span>Operations in all aspects of operations related Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&amp;A).</span></li>\n<li><span>Key business partnering for operational teams. </span></li>\n<li><span>To support Group product costing including twice yearly standard cost revisions, understanding cost absorption methodology as the best fit for each manufacturing operation.</span></li>\n<li><span>To provide quality financial reports to operations management across sites to aid in decision making.</span></li>\n<li><span>Supporting a Group project to implement an operations finance module into the Cardiff and Comber sites including manufacturing works orders and WIP management. </span></li>\n<li><span>To produce &amp; 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