Cost Accountant

Introduction

Provide the business with accurate Revenue and Cost of Sales insights by managing Bill of Materials (BOM) variances and analyzing profitability at item level.

Duties & Responsibilities

Financial Management

• Provide the business with accurate Revenue and Cost of Sales insights by managing Bill of Materials (BOM) variances and analyzing profitability at item level.
• Conduct variance analysis by identifying and investigating differences between standard and actual costs.
• Cost and Selling price management budgeting and forecasting, including modelling and analysis.
• Perform comprehensive profitability analyses across all products to identify opportunities or corrective actions.
• Collaborate with Procurement on risk management to ensure supplier pricing supports overall company profitability.
• Support business units with the processing and costing of assemblies.
• Prepare and distribute daily sales reports.
• Produce weekly and monthly cost analysis reports to support decision-making.
• Identify cost-reduction, automation, and continuous improvement opportunities across the plant.
• Track and interpret KPIs such as OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness), scrap and waste levels, production uptime, cost per unit, and margin trends.
• Drive improvements in costing accuracy, financial processes, ERP utilisation, and plant reporting.
• Provide support to divisions by managing and participating in ad-hoc projects as required.
• Demonstrates strong commercial acumen through effective calculation of trading terms, discounts, rebates, and promotional agreements and improved financial performance.

Analysis

• Analyse product-level profitability, including raw material impacts, process costs, shrinkage, customer profitability and efficiency KPIs.

Support Business Strategy

• Support company vision and mission.
• Deliver on KPI's.
• Own and manage BOMS integrity and accuracy, while always investigating opportunities to improve profitability.
• Investigate opportunities to improve controls automate processes, reporting and tasks.
• Deliver on Individual / team goals

Desired Experience & Qualification

• Costing qualification, appropriate tertiary qualification aligned to the job requirements
• Minimum of 3 years commercial accounting experience.
• Must be computer literate - MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, ERP.
• Report writing (BI) - beneficial.

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