Reference: 4484MLR

A successful company in the manufacturing industry has a vacancy for a Cost and Management Accountant who will report to the Financial Manager. This is a contract-based/temp position, but there is a possibility that it could turn into a more permanent opportunity.

Job Description:

-Maintain and support the standard costing system and ensure that departmental cost allocations are correct.
-Investigate and ensure that all bills of material are correct and updated on a regular basis to reflect the correct standard costs.
-Maintain and support the CAPEX process and fixed assets register within Syspro 7.
-Be trained as a super user on the ERP system as local support for Syspro 7.
-Perform gross profit variance analysis on products and corrective actions if required.
-Assist the financial director with annual budget and quarterly business forecasting.
-Support the business’ USA extension with costing and pricing enquiries.
-Responsible for quarterly stock takes and monthly inventory movements.
-Reconciliation of inventory general ledger accounts with Syspro sub ledger inventory modules.
-Support sales department with annual price increases.
-Assist financial director with scenario and benchmarking analysis.
-Weekly and monthly flash data reporting to management.
-Ad hoc projects as requested by the Financial Manager.

Qualifications:

-Preferred: A completed three-year diploma in Cost and Management Accounting (minimum) with preference to B. Tech (Cost & Management Accounting) or B.Comm (Management Accounting).
-Studying towards CIMA will be added advantage.
-Very important: to 4 years' manufacturing experience.
-Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate with staff at various levels.
-Fluent in Afrikaans and English
-Excellent MS Office skills with Excel at advanced level.
-ERP experience with preference to Microsoft Dynamics or Syspro.