Management Accountant at RCL Foods

Job Description    
EPOL is seeking a Management Accountant to provide commercial support and insight to internal stakeholders

The accountant would need to perform regular cost review, generate weekly product costing reports, and compile monthly reports with appropriate explanations for the monthly management accounting pack

The job also entails ensuring costing integrity and assisting in the compilation of Capex motivations and other irregular requirements

This role requires an individual who can work closely with both the admin and operational teams.
Minimum Requirements    

• B. Com with Cost and Management Accounting or a relevant 3-year tertiary qualification
• SAP and Stock Management experience is a prerequisite.
• Experience with SAP Product costing would be advantageous

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Co-ordinate effective stock counts and maintain Governance over the stock count process
• Verify stock counts on raw materials and finished goods with Production teams
• Generate the stock variance reports on SAP and investigate major variances (theoretical vs physical) before posting
• Close production orders in SAP weekly and investigate /follow up on major deviations with the production manager
• Own the standard costing process at mill level including quarterly BOM updates in SAP
• Review costing during the quarter for changes to production costs and new product proposals
• Investigate production orders with high variances and implement corrections where necessary
• Maintain the BOMs in SAP for the mill and liaise with technical managers on the integrity of the BOMs in SAP
• Be the custodian of fixed and variable costs at the mill
• Involvement in cost reduction projects being able to identify opportunity areas for the mill and implementation thereof
• Monitor & evaluate high-value expenditure eg labor, transport, maintenance, and electricity charges
• Prepare the monthly management accounting pack and supporting schedules including reporting of variances
• Chair weekly mill meetings with key internal customers to discuss performance, focus areas, and action plans going forward
• Assist in the compilation of CAPEX forecasts
• Assist with CAPEX motivation and initiate workflows for mill CAPEX
• Conduct ad hoc projects and feasibility studies in respect of product profitability
• Compile and submit Mill Business Plan (BP) with assistance from Mill managers
• Provide Sales Regional Managers with product cost analyses for price changes to customers