Cost Accountant

About the position

Cost Accountant - Factory
Salary: R45-55k Basic

Purpose of Position:

Complement Recruitment are recruiting for a Cost Accountant for a Manufacturing Factory Plant based in the East Rand, Brakpan, Johannesburg Gauteng. The responsibility of the Cost Accountant is to assist management with analysing cost expenditures and purchases within the company, in order to maximise manufacturing profitability. This is a permanent position with benefits.

Minimum Requirements Qualifications And Skills

Minimum requirements:

• BCom degree in Finance, Accounting, Cost accounting
• CIMA - Non Negotiable
• Minimum 5 years' experience in similar role at a manufacturing business (factory, plant)
• Manufacturing Industries - Paint; Construction Chemicals and Raw Materials
• SAP or similar ERP experience.

Main responsibilities:

• Assist management with analysing cost expenditures and purchases within the company, in order to maximise manufacturing profitability.
• Monthly KPI calculations and consolidating factory results.
• Monthly sand drying analysis. Pricing of sand for article costing purposes, drier fuel efficiencies etc.
• Calculations of labour cost, transport cost etc. per unit.
• Preparation of Divisional Management Accounts (Paint and Construction Chemicals).
• Cost Centre accounting for shared services.
• Performing monthly costing runs, investigations, and analysis of raw material margins.
• Master data custodian. Responsible for creating new articles that needs to be maintained at different sites, costing calculations performed, rooting of articles.
• Maintaining existing articles. BOM changes, storage location changes, header quantity changes, MRP data changes etc.
• Extending articles for selling and distribution.
• Assisting Financial Manager with monthly, quarterly and annual reporting.

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Desired Skills:

• cost accountant
• finance
• accounting
• financial
• reporting
• cost pricing
• pricing
• analysis
• data analysis
• pricing model
• expenditure
• Product Costing
• Cost accounting
• Variance Analysis
• Stock Accounting
• Accounting management
• Profitability analysis
• CIMA
• Commercial Accounting
• Working Capital Management
• Balance Sheet
• Fixed Assets
• Inventory Analysis
• Inventory Reconciliation
• Monthly Accounts
• Cost Control
• Intercompany
• Balance Sheet Analysis
• Balance Sheet Review
• Accruals
• Commission Calculation
• Commentary
• SAP
• article costing
• raw materials
• chemical
• plant accountant
• factory accountant
• tax
• vat
• sars
• general ledger
• p&l
• profit and loss
• financial accountant
• kpi
• consolidating
• erp
• bcom
• degree
• manufacturing
• asset
• profitability
• purchases
• purchasing
• spend control
• Efficiency
• mrp
• data changes
• mrp planning
• bom
• project management
• project
• cost expenditure
• costings

Desired Work Experience:

• 5 to 10 years