Group Cost Accountant – Elsham

Posted: 1st July, 2026

Title: Group Cost Accountant

Department: Finance

Location: Derry, Clara or Elsham

 

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From our spirited entrepreneurial beginnings to our today’s global leadership position in the healthcare market, Nelipak has enjoyed 70 years of creating, shepherding, and leading the healthcare packaging industry – with plenty of significant milestones along the way.
Our People are our passion, by working as One Nelipak, with shared goals and a common purpose, we are Trusted to Protect.
We are exceeding industry standards and expectations; we are Quality, we are bespoke packaging solutions, no matter the challenge, and we are always at the forefront of the healthcare packaging industry.

About the job…
Group Cost Accountant -Derry, NI/Elsham, UK/Clara, ROI

As the Group Cost Accountant you will be working with the Cost Accountant Manager across the European sites providing consistent costing data and analytics to give insight into product costs.

Develop indepth reporting on variances, costs and margins.

Develop SAP processes and knowledge to optimise the available data for business decision making and performance improvement.

Have You…?

• Minimum of 3 solid years of Cost Accounting in a Manufacturing Environment [essential]
• Bachelors Degree in Accounting or business related degree [desirable]
• Must have a strong Cost systems background [essential]
• Excellent analytical skills [essential]
• Sound understanding of accounting principals [essential]
• Strong Excel skills and the ability to use Outlook, Powerpoint and Word [essential]
• Experience with SAP highly [desirable]
• Experience working with engineering and manufacturing personnel on development and analysis of cost standards [desirable]
• Ability to accurately prepare and interpret daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reports [essential]

Nelipak is an agile, Private Equity owned business bolstered by financial stability, rapid growth, and an exciting growth agenda. Change is embraced and innovation isn’t blocked by excess red tape.

In Nelipak, there’s potential to progress and continue your development. Here, there’s no settling for box-ticking and competitor benchmarking; you’ll be at the heart of challenging for better in a high-performance team.

The Benefits…

• A competitive salary
• Pension – with matched contribution
• Quarterly Gainshare bonus (Terms & Conditions apply)
• Time to recharge with beyond statutory annual leave plus bank holidays
• Life Assurance
• On-site Parking
• EAP Programme
• Health Shield Cashback plan
• Death in Service
• Learning and development opportunities
• E-Learning and Development opportunities

The above list of job responsibilities is not exclusive or exhaustive and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks as may reasonably be expected within the scope of the post.

FOR INTERESTED APPLICANTS:

Nelipak is an equal opportunity and inclusive employer.

For additional information on Nelipak Healthcare Packaging, please visit our website on www.nelipak.com. Nelipak Healthcare Packaging is committed to equality of opportunity in employment and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates irrespective of religion, gender or disability.  . All applicants will be considered strictly on the basis of merit.  We reserve the right to alter the right to essential and desirable criteria subject to number of applications received

For a confidential discussion, contact Elshamapplications@nelipak.com. Please note, if you apply for this role, your interest and details will remain confidential. We will not contact your current employer as part of the application and/or interview process, for example. You must be eligible to work in Ireland to be considered for this role.

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