Plant Controller

1 month ago

Cape Town, South Africa Signal Hill Products Full time

**Department: Finance**

**Position/Title: Plant Controller**
**Reports To: Operations Manager**
**Employment Type**:Permanent

**Number of Reports**: 3

**Overall Responsibility**:
The Plant Controller is responsible for the strategic financial direction of the plant. Acting as a key business partner to the Plant Manager/Operations Manager to provide strategic direction and recommendations to improve the sites performance within a well-established risk framework. The Plant Controller will coordinate budget and business planning processes, ensuring compliance with corporate policies and practices. This role serves as the custodian of the plant's financial health by maintaining a strong control environment and implementing or adhering to internal controls and governance standards.

**Focus Area 1**

**Financial Leadership and Business Partnering**
- Be the main financial advisor on short-, medium
- and long-term decisions affecting the plant
- Offer commercial orientation and perspectives to the business leadership to drive value creation throughout the plant
- Coordinate the strategic plan development and support business leadership in evaluating ideas and options to achieve business goals.
- Focus on key strategic imperatives and priorities by building team capabilities to effectively drive and support initiatives that enhance those imperatives.
- Provide the business leadership with key financial measures to monitor and track performance to targets
- Drive ownership of effective cost management practices and deliver cost-efficient financial management services to the plant.

**Focus Area 2**

**Accounting and Finance**
- Design and implement sound accounting processes and systems which ensures operational best practices
- Maintain a competent finance team that provides up to date and accurate information to the business at all times
- Ensure good record keeping and ensure that IT systems are adequate to support the current and future needs of the business
- Custodian of all Budgets requirements and performance management to targets
- Promote good capex management practices and reporting in line with group approved budgets and spend mandates
- Lead supplier management drive to ensure efficiency and promote continues production
- Ensure efficient working capital practices are entrenchedWork closely with tax authorities to ensure full compliance and minimise exposure to the business

**Focus Area 3**

**Governance and Control**
- Promote good corporate governance practices and ensures the company has a sound internal control operating environment
- Promote key external stakeholder engagements which are necessary to enhance healthy
- Month end inventory reconciliation to General Ledger
- Monitor and review inventory provision in line with slow moving, expired and obsolete items
- Review and approval of Inventory ID set up and stock items master data management
- Produce various daily/ weekly/period/quarterly production analysis and variance reports for Management review.

**Focus Area 4**

**Fixed Asset Management**
- Raising and Receipting of Purchase Orders for Supply function.
- Generating Production Tickets, Capturing Production Tickets to reflect production plans and actual material used
- WIP and staging counts, verification and reconciliation of Inventory balance report to general ledger
- Inventory ID set up and stock items master data management
- Month end production inventory counts confirmations and reconciliation of variances.

**Focus Area 5**

**Reporting, Budget, Forecast and Planning**
- Produce various daily/ weekly/period/quarterly production analysis and variance reports for Management review.
- Perform WIP Variance Analysis and WIP Balance sheet Inventory reconciliation
- Collaborate with the Leadership team to determine the true cost of process inefficiencies and establish data analysis tools for effective reporting
- Establish actual cost using standard/job cost methods
- Compile and prepare variance report data comparing standard costs to actual production costs
- Participate in the monthly close process.
- Prepare month end general accruals and account reconciliations and perform a variety of other routine accounting tasks that support forecasting, budgeting, and internal control activities.
- Provide a variety of routine office and clerical support as required including the preparation of documents, spreadsheets, presentations, or other communication as well as providing back-up support to the accounting department as required.
- Perform all other duties/special projects as assigned.

**Requirements of the Role**:

- Formal tertiary qualifications in accounting or a related field.
- Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience in a similar industry.
- Strong knowledge of accounting principles, including cost accounting.
- Understanding of operational process flows, with a foundational knowledge of financial analysis.
- Exceptional analytical and communication skills, with the capability

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