Costing Manager
Recruiter:
Abantu Staffing Solutions
Date posted:
Friday, May 17, 2024
Location:
East London, South Africa
SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:
Job Purpose:
- To contribute to the efficiency of the business by providing accurate and timeous financial and strategic support to the Finance Director and Executive members
Minimum Requirements:
- Matric / Grade 12
- BCom Management Accounting or BTech Cost & Management Accounting
- 5 + years relevant experience
- Proven experience and track record in a manufacturing environment (Highly Advantageous)
Main Responsibility:
- Product cost information
- Provide strategic support and information to the Executives
- Product specification control
- Tender costing and analysis
- OE selling price justification
- Smelter costing and automation
- Monitor London Metal Exchange price index for lead variation increases
- Recommending changes to the Company’s processes and policies to reduce cost and maximize profit
- Calculate and compile Export Selling price schedules for Marketing Director
- Inventory reconciliation: Reconciliation between ledger and subledger and involved in stock counts
- Technical development costings
- Manage, lead and develop the Costing team
- Manufacturing budgets and forecast
- Update and maintain related policies and procedure
- Create reports to advise on improving efficiency, reducing scrap and inefficiencies
- Purchase Price Variance reporting
- Update and maintain related Master data
- Manage expenditures and look for cost-efficient and savings providing solutions to inefficiencies
- Accounting functions, highlighting variances, irregularities
- Audit information and support
- Scenario planning and analysis and ad-hoc analysis
- EXCO reporting
- Reconciliation of general ledger accounts
- Stock Count
Key Skills and Competencies:
- Must be able to meet deadlines in a fast-paced, quickly changing environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Time management skills
- Ability to pay attention to detail
- Organization skills
- Ability to multi-task
- Ability to develop and lead a team
- Proven track record of strategic input
- Ability to organize a daily workload by priorities.
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