Facility Accountant (Port Elizabeth) at Aspen Pharma Group

Description
Overview:

• Provide and implement the necessary policy frameworks to ensure adherence to Group financial policies.
• Provide operational financial guidance to facility management teams and drive financial objectives within facilities.
• Prepare final costs for tenders and budgets.
• Prepare preliminary costs and commercial evaluations for various business scenarios.
• Prepare standard cost variance analysis on reporting variance.

Requirements
Responsibilities:

Financial controls and Cost Accounting

• Assist with budgets, tenders, and expense reviews.
• Prepare product costings and analyse specific cost impacts for review and approval.
• Maintain costing database.
• Ensure Group Transfer Pricing Methodology is applied.
• Annual Cost roll up of existing and new products.
• Maintain financial system integrity, including checking signal codes are.
• Ensure accurate recording of production expenses for use in expenditure control.
• Monthly analysis of Margins, Production Expenses, Production Variance analysis (Recoveries, Yields, PV’s, NRV’s).
• Support month-end and year end close process. 

Analysis and Reporting

• Analyse and report on changes in products, materials, and methods to determine effects on cost (commercial evaluations).
• Prepare and provide reports on standard cost variances.
• Perform trend analysis on Margins, Production expenses and Production variances to identify irregularities.
• Prepare monthly financial results (actual vs. budget vs. forecast) and submit, with comments on variances, to line manager.
• Prepare month-end reconciliations and reports (Income Statement and Balance Sheet).

Operational Input

• Provide technical and operational input on operational planning of the unit and on the prioritisation of objectives.
• Indicate required changes in resources to enable achievement of work objectives.
• Apply advanced understanding of area of specialisation.
• Analyse concepts and suggest streamlined procedures.
• Provide information for reports, as required by line manager.
• Compile standardised reports and consolidate documents.
• Comply with document filing requirements and maintain and update records and systems as required.
• Assist with development/amendment of SOP's.
• Undertake IT improvement projects, where required.
• Assist with projects, implementation of systems and feasibility studies.

Requirements:

Background/experience

• 4 to 6 years’ accounting experience in an accounting role in a manufacturing organisation.
• Experience advising management on finance-related matters and implementing financial controls.
• BCom Degree in Accounting or equivalent.

Specific job skills

• Computer literacy: proficiency in Excel, Word, Powerpoint, and a fully integrated ERP system.

Competencies

• Offering Insights
• Maintaining Accuracy
• Managing Performance
• Interrogating Information