Cost and Management Accountant

2 months ago


Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Abantu Staffing Solutions Full time
Job Purpose:

To provide financial analysis and support to management and all operational areas of the business, with a focus on cost accounting and financial strategy.

Main Responsibilities:
  • Financial Strategy: Participate in organisational strategy management from a financial management perspective, providing financial analysis and support to management and all operational areas of the business.
  • General Financial: Maintain and update accounting system (ERP: BPCS), ensure compliance with internal control, and provide financial analysis and support to management and all operational areas of the business.
  • Cost Accounting: 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 BOM's and identify distress parts, and participate in continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Costing: 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.
  • Costing Analysis: 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.
  • Reporting: 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.
  • Effective Teamwork, Self-Management, and Management of Staff: Take ownership and accountability for tasks and activities, demonstrate effective self-management in terms of planning and prioritising, and self-development, follow through to ensure that quality and productivity standards of work are consistently and accurately maintained, inform relevant parties in the event of tasks or deadlines not met, the potential risks thereof and provided appropriate resolution, support and drive the business core values, managed colleagues and client's expectations and communicated appropriately, demonstrate willingness to help others and 'go the extra mile' to meet team targets and objectives, participate and drive regular performance appraisals and ensure that own targets and goals are clear and achievable, maintain a basic appreciation and awareness of employee relations climate and ensure corrective action is taken where required in line with relevant legislation and company policy.

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