Cost Accountant - Ekurhuleni, South Africa - Mpact Plastics

Description

Qualifications & Experience required:

• Matric/Grade 12 with Mathematics/Accounting.
• BCom in Accounting or a related field.
• CIMA Qualified
• 3 5 years minimum experience in Production or Manufacturing environment.

Competencies needed for this position:

• Attention to detail.
• Strong Numerical ability.
• Team Player.
• Analytical thinking.
• Ability to organize and prioritize.
• Ability to interact with people of varying levels in the organisation.
• Demonstrate sound work ethics.

Your primary responsibility will be, but are not limited to:

• Calculate the cost price of manufacturing raw materials, Labour and overheads allocation.
• Provide support to Ops team for daily cyclical counts and month end stock counts.
• Report on results of stock takes to Ops and Finance Manager and also assist with analysis of stock variance and investigating origin of stock variances.
• Identify paper stock that is at risk of becoming obsolete for Planners in production runs on weekly basis.
• Weekly flag FGS that is at risk of becoming obsolete as per policy to sales staff to deliver to customer.
• Conduct Monthly reviews, analysis Opex spend and consumable usage to identify any issue areas to management.
• Review actuals vs budget with detailed commentary on variances.
• Assist with recording waste percentages & interventions to reduce waste.
• Manage daily costing requests.