Senior Project Accountant at Unique Group

Qualification:

• Relevant qualification in Project Costing and Management Accounting and certified CPA. MBA is strongly advantageous.

Experience:

• At least 10 years of proven experience
• with BI Reporting and Costing for a Multi-national /Group with subsidiary companies, preferably in the Manufacturing or Oil and Gas industry
• Project Cost & Management Accounting
• Financial Reporting and analysis

Key performance areas but not limited to the following

• Provide financial, commercial, and analytical support to various departments and subsidiaries to ensure efficient project costing and manufacturing costing/ quotation/ sales processes
• Conduct project and manufacturing financial and operational analysis reports on all relevant cost areas together with variances e.g., Raw material costings, Packaging cost, Production & yield analysis, cost of production, overhead etc
• Guide, develop and maintain the project and cost accounting system, documents, and records of the organisations
• Prepare, review and analysis of Weekly Management Accounts and maintain various relevant dashboards
• Ensure the full stock control function within the organisation are delivering accurate reconciled information feeding into the management accounts
• Assist in audits and general ledger preparation
• Management and development of costing staff to ensure optimisation of Key Performance Indicators
• Manage costing-related system changes and system updates
• Assist CFO with ad hoc projects
• Analysing project and manufacturing operations, equipment availability and utilisation
• Performing month-end cost accounting close
• Maintaining cost accounting system and cost ledger
• Performing life cycle cost-benefit analysis
• Analysing inventory valuations
• Monitoring unit cost variance
• Preparing cost of goods sold and production reports
• Ensure timely and accurate monthly and annual project reporting in line with group reporting standards and deadlines
• Defining various product and operational costs
• Developing depreciation schedule
• Implementing cost standards for materials and labour
• Assistance in the preparation of the monthly reporting packages & other reports/inquiries from Head office
• Interaction with other departments in order to resolve issues arising from postings
• Management and reconciliation of group project accounts and follow-up on the intercompany mismatches if any
• Evaluate manufacturing costs and prepares regular reports comparing standard predicted costs to actual project / production costs
• Provide management with reports specifying and comparing factors affecting prices and profitability of projects, products or services
• Make estimates of new and proposed project product costs
• Assist in planning, developing, controlling, and forecasting the manufacturing budget
• Assist management with building an annual manufacturing budget for the company.

Additional Skills required

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Outstanding team working/building abilities
• Outstanding organisational and leadership abilities
• Staff management and leadership skills
• Ability to work overtime when required
• Ability to travel internationally and on short notice
• Strong systems knowledge with Advanced Excel, Microsoft Business Intelligence Reporting, Microsoft D365 and ERP systems
• Possess an analytical mindset for the purpose of solving problems using well-proven strategic approaches to identifying resolution
• Attention to detail with excellent organisational skills and proven ability to handle multiple tasks/priorities
• Clear credit record, clear career history with contactable references and must be an RSA citizen