Cost Accountant

You will have a minimum of 3 years of experience in a Supply Chain environment with Cost Accounting as a core focus. Strong Supply Chain finance management experience (Inventory management, Standard costing experience is essential.

Minimum Requirements

• BCom Accounting/Finance degree (Advantageous)
• CIMA qualification is mandatory
• Min 3 years’ in a senior financial role
• Min 3 years’ experience in a Supply Chain environment with Cost Accounting as a core focus
• Strong Supply Chain finance management experience (Inventory management, Standard costing)
• Strong Computer Literacy, Full MS Office package – Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Thorough grounding of accounting principles and procedures
• Attention to detail
• Good communication (both written and verbal)
• Project Management skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple stakeholders
• Problem Solving Skills in a difficult operating environment (Resilience)
• Deadline driven

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Assist with budgets/ quarterly and rolling forecasts from a Cost of Goods Sold point of view
• Prepare product and preliminary costings, specific cost impacts and conduct associated procedures.
• Maintain costing database.
• Applied marginal costing where applicable for transfer pricing.
• Responsible for the annual Standard Cost roll-up process in SAP and Roll-up of new products.
• Manage month-end closure of the financial system (SAP) and perform all Inventory related balance sheet reconciliations
• Monthly management of company COGS including Purchase price variance including Fx impact), Freight variances, and Inventory adjustments.
• All aspects of inventory management including the annual stock counts and recons of variances.
• Monthly monitoring of obsolescent and slow-moving stock provision in line with the Company.
• Monthly tracking of all supply chain-related costs
• Play an active role in improving internal control processes within the Supply Chain environment.
• Monthly balance sheet responsibility of all Inventory accounts including sub-ledger and recons.
• Monthly reporting for Supply Chain related reporting (Inventory/ Freight/ Warehousing).