Cost Accountant at Promasidor

Objectives

• Monitor Budget and performance in relation to manufacturing standards, set standards for unit costs and recommend appropriate cost-saving opportunities.

Responsibilities
Coordination of manufacturing review process:

• Agree job |manufacturing review calendar with budget holders Generate monthly pre-close reports and analysis.
• Conduct monthly cost reviews for all SKU’s, providing adequate documentation.
• Conduct detailed analysis of all production cost accounts,
• Investigate and follow-up with responsible parties to resolve erroneous postings and raising necessary journals to correct them.
• Ensure adequacy and completeness of all entries in the accounts with correct classification to job, location and cost center.
• Report significant omissions in the job costing to management. Investigate and report on all manufacturing variances.
• Run post-close reports.
• Develop cost-saving initiatives for presentation to management, with subsequent implementation.

Ownership and compilation of investment capex documents:

• Complete necessary investment case documents
• Validate | collate all base information from necessary sources o Maintain and update capex model
• Reconcile capex proposals against budget
• Complete presentations for investment cases

Business Partnership:

• Monthly manufacturing cost flash
• Monthly detailed cost analysis by job o Quarterly BOM reviews
• Monthly tracking against targets
• Ad-hoc analysis.

Requirements
Education:

• B.Sc / HND in Accounting, Finance or any other relevant discipline plus ICAN or ACCA Qualification.

Experience:

• Minimum of 5 Years Relevant Experience.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Strong organization skill
• Good communication skill
• Problem-solving
• Research abilities.
• Strong technology expertise, Including proficiency with Microsoft Excel and experience with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.
• Time Management.

Personal Attributes:

• Simplicity
• Collaboration and Team work
• Accountability
• Willingness to Learn
• Trustworthiness.
• Ethics and integrity.