Plant Controller at Saint-Gobain

Purpose

• To maintain, manage and coordinate management accounting and costing activities of Gyproc, Isover and Distribution Centres including providing costing and other information to evaluate performance and support decision making.

Responsibilities:

• Accurate Product Costing (Standard Costs & Actual Costs) to support business decisions
• Cost Analysis and Production Variance Analysis in order to identify and address anomalies.
• Perform cost simulations and provide unit costs for new products and changes to products.
• Attendance and participation in site meetings as part of the Plant Steering Committee
• Financial evaluation of Operations as and when required
• Define and develop reports to monitor Plant performance
• Drive Plant costs down by continuously reviewing costs and identifying opportunities for savings.
• Ensure accurate Group Industrial (K2 Financial Data) reporting for benchmarking with other SG entities.
• Provide costing reports (Plant Fixed Costs, Maintenance, Overtime, productivity etc) to Management with recommendations on a monthly basis.
• Preparation and monitoring of Cost of Factors evolution.
• Ensure application of cost accounting systems and procedures
• Support compliance with business controls at the site.
• Participation in inventory counts, reviewing inventory scrapping and adjustments and addressing root causes
• Co-ordinate SAP CO month end closure process
• Revaluation of Finished Goods inventory to actual.
• Industrial Investment appraisals including ROI calculation to support capital expenditure motivations including performing post completion audits and evaluation.
• Ownership/ Support of WCM Cost Deployment
• Co-ordination and collection of annual cost centre budgets, including SAP models to calculate budgeted unit costs.
• Preparation of Rolling forecast and month estimated costs.
• Ensure annual standard costs for all products are set up correctly.
• Adhoc exercises as and when required by management

Qualifications

• Matric
• B Com Accounting or National Diploma in Cost and Management Accounting or equivalent
• Qualified CIMA and/ MBA or CA

Required skills

• At least 5 years costing experience in a manufacturing environment
• SAP knowledge a pre requisite
• Advanced computer Literacy (MS Office)
• Strong analytical skills
• Robust Leadership skills
• Problem solving skills
• Excellent communication (written and verbal) skills
• Self drive and results oriented
• Ability to work in a team