Cost Accountant

3 weeks ago


Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Platinum Placements Full time
Job Title: Cost and Management Accountant

Platinum Placements is seeking a highly skilled Cost and Management Accountant to join our team. As a key member of our finance team, you will be responsible for providing financial analysis and support to management and operational areas of the business.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Participate in organisational strategy management from a financial management perspective.
  • Provide financial analysis and support to management and all operational areas of the business.
  • Maintain and update accounting system (ERP: BPCS).
  • Ensure compliance with internal control.
  • Prepare and review details product costing analysis for all new parts.
  • Analysis all current parts and make recommendations for the financial recovery on distressed parts.
  • Calculate and propose potential price increases.
  • Review GP percentage of individual BOMs and identify distress parts.
  • Participate in continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Provide indicative 'what-if' costings and impact on profitability for: New Product Generation and Specification to existing products.
  • Worked closely with technical team to ensure integrity of the control sheet.
  • Worked closely with factory accountants to facilitate an understanding of and ensure that most current costs (both production and distribution) are used when calculating the profitability.
  • Effectively communicate and present findings as well as recommendations to the commercial manager, business development manager, technical team and the rest of the cross functional team.
  • Provide meaningful profitability information and recommend ways to optimise OEM profitability and project profitability for new business.
  • Recover margin in underperforming categories by highlighting commercial impact (margin enhancement vs volume opportunity) and assisted in strategic decision making.
  • Support the business development managers in the use of system tools regarding costing and profitability.
  • Support Commercial manager in considering product rationalisation, mix comparisons and other business improvement opportunities.
  • Challenge product enhancement opportunities.
  • Attend customer and commercial meetings to provide insight to ongoing projects and commercial items.
  • Create a platform within quarterly profitability review to evaluate the success of project post launch review, providing insight and learnings which can be taken into future launches.
  • Develop suitable standard of commercial reports that will provide insight, stimulate further discussion, and assist in decision making across RFQ patch.
  • Worked closely with IT to automate reporting where possible.
  • Weekly tracking of costings done to create visibility of projects manage workload with project and customer team.
Requirements:
  • Grade 12.
  • BCom / Degree in Financial Accounting or related qualification.
  • Minimum 4 to 5 years experience in management accounting role. Automotive Industry and Manufacturing Environment experience.
What We Offer:
  • Opportunity to work with a dynamic team.
  • Professional development and growth opportunities.
  • Competitive salary and benefits package.

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