Senior Management Accountant at Lactalis South Africa

Job Description    

• Join Lactalis at our Port Elizabeth Plant in the Admin department with the main responsibilities for assisting with the continuous improvement of processes and financial controlling information to highlight business concerns and reduce losses.  
• A post graduate degree with costing as a major.  
• Excellent numeracy skills and ability to work accurately.
• Five year’s experiences in Standard costing in a manufacturing environment.
• Must have basic knowledge of products.
• Be fluent in English and be computer literate.    

Required Skills:

• A post graduate degree with costing as a major
• Excellent numeracy skills and ability to work accurately
• Two year’s experiences in Standard costing in a manufacturing environment
• Develop partnership roles with Plant Manager/ Production Managers/Controllers/ Financial Manager
• To have presentation skills *Must be a self-motivator with good planning, organising and admin skills
• Able to work independently and must have strong interpersonal skills and analytical skills 
• Must be accurate and pay attention to detail
• Must be a good communicator
• Computer literate in MS Office (Excel advanced skills) *Understanding of BOM’s and routings
• BPCS /integrated system knowledge advantageous
• Two years prior experience in managing staff
• Very methodical, and good at problem solving and tracing problems to the source

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Supervising and working with the production accountants.
• Implement improved GMP reports (milk material) information and loss investigation.
• Reporting and reasoning of plant yields, processes to improve the visibility of plant performance including TRG (OEE) information and labour efficiency of production departments.
• Various ad-hoc projects to streamline processes in both weekly and monthly reporting and reporting files to provide accurate management information for decision making.
• Monthly Industrial reporting files and annual budgeting process.
• Assist Financial manager with 3 monthly forecast and needs to be 95% accurate.
• Training of Staff on inventory system and reports.
• Chairing departmental stock flow meetings, identify stock losses implement improvement process to reduce stock losses.
• Identify Stock at risk regarding Finished goods, Packaging & Ingredients.
• Assist production departments with issue variance, losses and optimization investigations.
• Driving continuous improvement and accuracy of information from shop floor, drive perform and improve KPI in terms of savings vs budget and previous year.
• Focus on accurate routings and costing of products within BPCS & work close with Research and Development to determine costing of new products or recipe changes, tracking any savings after recipe changes been made.
• Support Production Managers & Plant Manager by providing information for decision making and assisting production clerks with any capturing/system problems
• Ensure that effective internal control procedures are in place on all financial functions or cycles (i.e. stock, assets and other)
• Overheads management to be in line with Budget Targets for the year
• Assist with CAPEX process regarding return on investment and post implementation review to determine real return on investment, to make sure all return is reflected in the following year Budget

Closing Date    

• 2025/07/02