Cost and Management Accountant

1 month ago

East London, South Africa Abantu Staffing Solutions Full time

Overview:

To provide overview and analysis of COS and Gross Contributions Stats at division level, as well as assist with Sales related projects and complete ad-hoc feasibility projects for Financial Executive.

 

Minimum requirements: 

  • Grade 12
  • National Diploma: Financial Accounting (or equivalent)
  • 5+ years’ experience in a Management Accounting role
  • Experience in a manufacturing environment essential
  • Experience in automotive manufacturing environment advantageous

 

Responsibilities:

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
  • 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.
  • Weekly tracking of costings done to create visibility of projects manage workload with project and customer team

 

General Finance:

  • 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

 

Financial Strategy:

Participate in organisational strategy management from a financial management perspective.

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