Finance Lead: Costing and Management Accounts at Aspen Pharma Group

Overview

•  Manage the costing and management accounting departments
•  Ensure accurate costs are prepared for Production
•  Manage and control costing systems and procedures
•  Ensure expenses are recovered by product costs
•  Ensure tender costs are accurately prepared

Responsibilities

Costing system management

•  Oversee costing policies, systems and methods, ensuring integrity, accuracy and security of costing tables and data
•  Provide standard cost parameters, prepare procedural framework for costing products, and authorise standard costs for production
•  Prepare commercial evaluations for re-alignments and cost analyses
•  Align factory and marketing cost-saving initiatives and identify cost reduction and efficiency improvement opportunities
•  Plan for costing of tender products, liaising with divisions and facilities in preparation for tenders; propose and control tender costs
•  Manage/ facilitate costing system audits

Management accounting, advisory and reporting

•  Oversee all management accounting activities, including rate and price variances, FIFO/NRV, working capital analysis, balance sheet recons, sales and cost of sales, inter-company balances
•  Provide decision making information and calculations to management
•  Provide commercial and operational trend analysis and impact studies
•  Maintain communication with relevant stakeholders
•  Recommend system and process improvements for SA Operations
•  Educate non-financial managers on costing processes
•  Document and report deviations from policy to Head of Finance
• Projects
•  Recommend, initiate and co-ordinate value added projects

Internal controls

•  Oversee the maintenance of internal controls, identifying risks and weaknesses and putting measures in place to correct/ mitigate them
•  Ensure SOP’s are rolled out across SA Operations, manage, control and maintain Financial SOP’s on Doc Compliance
•  Conduct evaluative studies of financial policies

Unit management

•  Provide input into unit strategy and operational objectives
•  Guide operational planning and advise on prioritisation of activities
•  Provide input into budgets and resource requirements for the unit
•  Request and allocate assets and resources for the fulfilment of work objectives and monitor their use
•  Provide unit staff with day-to-day direction and tasks
•  Authorise payments for creditors (cheque signatory)

Requirements
Requirements

Background/experience

•  6 to 8 years’ working experience in a financial management environment
•  Experience in accounting in a manufacturing environment, and in the management of staff
•  B.Com degree in Financial field

Specific job skills

•  Computer literacy: proficiency in Excel, Word, Powerpoint, and a fully integrated ERP system
•  Completion of articles advantageous

Competencies

•  Offering Insights
•  Maintaining Accuracy
•  Managing Performance
•  Following Procedures
•  Interrogating Information
•  Finalising Outputs

Accountability & Decision Rights

•  Set overall direction for direct reports, in alignment with policies and objectives
•  Execute objectives consistently
•  Hold staff accountable to established policies
•  Manage the budget for the unit and for small projects