Management Accountant (Beverages) - Pretoria West at RCL Foods

We are currently recruiting for an experienced Management Accountant to join our Consumer Beverages Division. 
The purpose of the Role:

• Compile and send out daily/weekly/monthly sales reports
• Yield variance reporting
• Stock take (analyze variance, monthly stock take meetings, implement controls if necessary)
• Product costings
• Material price variance analysis
• Stock re-valuation analysis
• Management account reporting
• Assist with the preparation of the Business Unit Deck slides
• Adhoc assistance to the plant 
• To maintain the MACS Product Costing, Cost Centre Accounting and Sales and Profit modules
• To provide commercial decision-making and MACS system maintenance support focused on product costing and cost center accounting

The role will report to the Commercial Manager and will be based onsite in Pretoria West.

Minimum Requirements    
Qualifications

• Preferably a CA(SA)
• Preferably 3 to 5 years of management accounting experience, incorporating commercial costing and some exposure to processing or manufacturing environments

Skills and Experience

• Management accounting principles and practices
• MACS structures, features, and utilisation
• Product costing principles, practices, and performance indicators
• Business strategies, targets, processes, and economics
• Report writing
• Problem Solving
• Logical thinking
• Ability to analyze data
• Tolerant of stress and pressure

Duties & Responsibilities    
Reporting

• Upload, correct, reconcile and balance weekly/monthly reports.
• Review daily and weekly product costing reports.
• Compile a weekly and monthly report of MACS actual raw material usage against standard and:
• Validate the logic of the MACS standard usage calculation against the actual usage.
• Engage QA and Processing in order to investigate variances between standard and actual consumption levels.
• Prepare a monthly product costing report together with appropriate explanations for the monthly management accounting pack.
• Review the monthly reconciliations in product costing and cost centre accounting to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Upload and reconcile the monthly general ledger.
• Generate the flexed budget report and conduct investigations to identify and address variances.

Product Costing 

• Budgeting and Forecasting
• Calculate regional quarterly/budget standard and actual product costs in MACS.

Assist with to coordinate the budget and quarterly forecast costing process including:

• uploading the general ledger
• uploading production
• uploading pricing
• testing throughput
• testing man loads
• testing consumption rates
• testing activity quantities

Product Cost Integrity

• Maintain Routings and the MACS product costing system.
• Develop, oversee and drive momentum of continuous BOM and routing audit processes to be conducted by Processing and QA resources.
• Coordinate investigations and audits with the MACS Management Accountant and Plant Managers to support initiatives designed to control costs and maximise profitability.
• Review and provide insight into proposed changes to product costs (as a result of trials or change in specifications) and new product proposals.
• Maintain the integrity and support proper execution of the NPD approval process.
• Load new BOM’s for trial codes requested from Master Data
• Calculate and implement any approved changes to product costing, clearly outlining the impact of such changes on the cost base and ultimately, profitability.
• Monitor, review and provide feedback on the actual impact of changes that have been made and new product costing as part of the “post launch” process. 

Project Coordination

• Assist in the compilation of Capex motivations and other irregular requirements.
• Conduct ad hoc projects and feasibility studies in respect of product profitability.

Information and Data Management

• Accurately and regularly capture data into the information system to enable access to reliable data and reporting for trend analysis and decision making.

Closing Date    
2023/07/21