- Assist Financial Manager: Costing and Management Accounts in preparing final costs for tenders and budgets
- Prepare preliminary costs and commercial evaluations for various business decisions
- Prepare standard cost variance analysis on reporting variances
Cost Accounting
- Assist with budgets, tenders and reviews
- Prepare product and preliminary costings, specific cost impacts and carry out associated procedures
- Record cost information for use in expenditure control
- Maintain financial system integrity, including checking signal codes are applied correctly and product costs are complete and accurate
- Maintain costing database
- Implement and review changes to item master
- Applied marginal costing where applicable for transfer pricing
- Ensure all transfer pricing mark ups are adhered to
- Roll up new products
- Assist in month-end closure of the General Ledger and other reconciliations, as required
- Perform and report on feasibility studies
- Analyse and report on changes in products, materials and methods to determine effects on cost (commercial evaluations)
- Conduct and report on cost review and analysis and on benchmarking and trend analysis
- Analyse and advise on factors affecting prices and profitability
- Prepare and provide reports on standard cost variances
- Provide technical and operational input on operational planning of the unit and on the prioritisation of objectives
- Indicate required changes in resources to enable achievement of work objectives
- Monitor and control the use of assets and resources within area of responsibility
- Apply advanced understanding of area of specialisation
- Analyse concepts and suggest streamlined procedures
- Provide information for reports, as required by Supervisor
- Compile standardised reports and consolidate documents
- Comply with document filing requirements and maintain and update records and systems as required
- Update SOPs on a continual basis
- Undertake IT improvement projects, where required
- 4 to 6 years experience in an accounting role in a manufacturing organisation
- BCom Degree in Financial Field or equivalent
- Computer literacy: proficiency in Excel, Word, Powerpoint, and a fully integrated ERP system
- Offering Insights
- Maintaining Accuracy
- Managing Performance
- Interrogating Information
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