Cost and Management Accountant

EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS: 

Grade 12
BCom / Degree in Financial Accounting or related qualification

EXPERIENCE:

Minimum 4 to 5 years’ experience in management accounting role. Automotive Industry and Manufacturing Environment experience.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

General Accounting:

• Provide Financial analysis and support to management and all operational areas of the business.
• Maintain and update accounting system (ERP: BPCS)
• Ensure compliance with internal control

Cost Accounting: 

• Prepare and review details product costing analysis for all new parts
• Analysis all current parts and make recommendations for the financial recovery on distressed parts.
• Calculate and propose potential price increases
• Review GP percentage of individual BOM’s and identify distress parts
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives

Costing: 

• Provide indicative “what-if” costings and impact on profitability for: New Product Generation and Specification to existing products.
• Worked closely with technical team to ensure integrity of the control sheet.
• Worked closely with factory accountants to facilitate an understanding of and ensure that most current costs (both production and distribution) are used when calculating the profitability.
• Effectively communicate and present findings as well as recommendations to the commercial manager, business development manager, technical team and the rest of the cross functional team.

Costing Analysis:

• Provide meaningful profitability information and recommend ways to optimise OEM profitability and project profitability for new business.
• Recover margin in underperforming categories by highlighting commercial impact (margin enhancement vs volume opportunity) and assisted in strategic decision making.
• Support the business development managers in the use of system tools regarding costing and profitability.
• Support Commercial manager in considering product rationalisation, mix comparisons and other business improvement opportunities.
• Challenge product enhancement opportunities.
• Attend customer and commercial meetings to provide insight to ongoing projects and commercial items

Reporting:

• Create a platform within quarterly profitability review to evaluate the success of project post launch review, providing insight and learnings which can be taken into future launches.
• Develop suitable standard of commercial reports that will provide insight, stimulate further discussion, and assist in decision making across RFQ patch.
• Worked closely with IT to automate reporting where possible
• Weekly tracking of costings done to create visibility of projects manage workload with project and customer team

Effective teamwork, self management and management of staff:

• Take ownership and accountability for tasks and activities. Demonstrate effective self-management in terms of planning and prioritising, and self-development.
• Follow through to ensure that quality and productivity standards of work are consistently and accurately maintained.
• Inform relevant parties in the event of tasks or deadlines not met, the potential risks thereof and provided appropriate resolution.
• Support and drive the business core values.
• Managed colleagues and client’s expectations and communicated appropriately.
• Demonstrate willingness to help others and “go the extra mile” to meet team targets and objectives.
• Participate and drive regular performance appraisals and ensure that own targets and goals are clear and achievable.
• Maintain a basic appreciation and awareness of employee relations climate and ensure corrective action is taken where required in line with relevant legislation and company policy.