Costing Clerk at Bridgestone South Africa (Pty) Ltd

Job Purpose
The Costing Clerk, will be responsible for the costing of product produced at the Brits factory, including production recording, waste and scrap recording. Working with the Cost Accountant be involved in the costing process from end to end, interacting with planning, industrial engineering, technical and production. Capturing of documentation relating to cost centres including but not limited to purchasing and costing transactions. Product costing, revaluation and standard costing setting for imported materials or tyres. Costing feedback into plant stakeholders on cost changes and daily cost centre reports associated with production cost.

• The incumbent will serve as a primary point of contact between business users and the information sourcing and maintenance.
• The incumbent will be responsible for understanding the function from cradle to grave, on an operational level and provide information relative to product costing.
• The incumbent will pro-actively interact with and control costing, with a specific focus on maintaining production cost details.

Key Accountabilities Under Responsibility

• Process costing documents, including but not limited to bill of materials (BOM), work centre, activities and routings. At all times ensuring costing records are aligned and up to date with technical and industrial engineering departments.
• Assist in calculating product standards and evaluation of cost changes together with cost accountant.
• Maintaining costing records and document control.
• Reconciliation and analysis of changes and reporting on cost impacts.
• Analysis and reporting on costing variances, ensuring business is made aware of the changes and potential impact thereof.
• Collection and capturing of production and waste and scrap data and preparing associated reports.
• Ensuring all waste and scrap documents captured and reconciled.
• Inventory accounting and reconciliation of waste yard.
• Inventory accounting relating production warehousing.
• Processing of purchase requisitions relating to department.
• Capturing of receiving documents relating to areas of responsibility.
• Journal preparation and processing as applicable.
• Understanding of costs within allocated departments and providing the information to the relevant business heads.
• Ad hoc business and operation requests relating to the finance department activities within the plant.

Key Competencies

• Attention to detail.
• Ability to communicate clearly accross all business functional levels.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Sound understanding of costing and accounting concepts.
• Sound understanding of costing allocations and reporting.
• General understanding of accounting processes and controls.
• The ability work with a large volume of data, and experience in performing detail data analysis.
• Excellent computer skills including excel and SAP.

Requirements

• Relevant Commercial / Finance Qualification
• 5 plus years’ experience detailing in product costing, working within a finance department.
• Experience in Manufacturing industry.
• Imported product costing experience will be an advantage