Project Accountant (Contract) at Smith Garb

Job Description

• To provide full support on all Project related finance and administration related activities. Provide overview and analysis of capital spend, tooling spend and recovery to enable accurate reporting and timely decision making.
• Completed B.Com (Accounting) / similar essential with 5 years Project Accounting experience preferably within the Manufacturing sector.  

KPI's include:  

• Projects: Prepare tooling reconciliation with profit and loss analysis per tool; 
• Prepare tooling packs per tool which will support customer recovery; Analyse tooling profitability and impacts requiring commercial review; 
• Support commercial with tooling customer recoveries; 
• Provide insight and reports to project team and management on tooling spend and recoveries; Review requisitions for new tooling costs against project spend and provide guidance.  
• Prepare and maintain the capital budget spend analysis; 
• Obtain and maintain all supporting documentation for all spend analyses in alignment with IFRS; Review requisitions for capital spend against budget and provide guidance; 
• Provide insight and reports to project team and management on capital spend; Ensure timely capitalisation of assets with full accounting packs for each asset; 
• Ensure assets capitalised is tagged and asset register is kept up to date; Application for government grant on project (AIS); 
• Ensure correct accounting and tax periods are applied at capitalisation; 
• Follow up on approvals and conversions of purchase orders; 
• Liaison with stakeholders on receipt of orders and issuance of invoices once work is complete; 
• Prepare and maintain cashflow plan and present to BU Finance Manager for review and approval; Expediting activities as required by project manager and cross functional project team; 
• Provide inputs and support local finance and commercial teams on all project related information required; 
• Participate on applicable project meetings and provide timely and accurate analyses of financial status on projects.;  
• Cost Accounting: Calculate & review overhead recovery rate for parts; 
• Conduct BOM audits on parts; Load new BOMS and change to current BOMs onto LX; 
• Ensure that the routings reflect the correct time standards and delete obsolete routings; 
• Identify cost VAVE and CIP ideas; 
• For Engineering changes be responsible for BOM. 
• Ensure all master data is updated; 
• Review and comment (Liaise with quality) on stock reject/ material usage accounts;  
• Audit and Year – End Processes:  Support with audit queries on assets and CAPEX;