Cost Accountant

Recruiter:

Network Recruitment

Job Ref:

NFC019884/PaB

Date posted:

Sunday, December 18, 2022

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

Salary:

600000

JOB SUMMARY:
A multi award-winning company in the manufacturing sector is in search of a Cost Accountant to join their dynamic and passionate team.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Cost Accountant will be accountable for the ongoing analysis of process constraints, costing projects, margin analysis, and tracing costs back to underlying activities. The successful incumbent is responsible for constructing and monitoring those cost-effective data accumulation systems needed to provide an appropriate level of costing information to management.

Responsibilities:

Standard Cost Updating.
Updating of Costing Models (Excel).
Maintain the line items for direct materials, labour and overhead on the bill of material or recipe for each product.
Preparing standard cost budgets for manufacturing.
Calculate, analyze, account for, and report monthly cost variances for direct materials, direct labor, indirect labour, and manufacturing overhead.
Assist sales with product pricing using an already defined methodology.
Execute and maintain procedures accurately and consistently calculating production rates, downtime, and change-over times for department performance measures.
Ensuring that cost accounting transactions align with GAAP, company policy and IFRS. Reporting / Analysis.
Purchase Price Variance Analysis.
Stock Revaluation Analysis.
Monthly Stock Take & Reporting.

Job Experience and Skills Required:

BCom OR CIMA
2 – 5 years in a similar role
Syspro ERP Knowledge
Excel Advanced

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