Management Accountant - Costing - Centurion at RCL Foods

• The role will be based in Centurion and will report to the Commercial Executive. The role requires an analytical individual with commercial and operations experience. The Management Accountant will assist with the effective running of the costing department and monitor all activities that have a cost implication. Provide commercial support and insights to the Commercial Management of the Speciality operating unit, through effective management of costings and profitability. The Management Accountant will be dealing with key issues in providing support and technical input to the commercial, sales and NPD teams to deliver insightful analysis.

Minimum Requirements    

• B.Com Accounting/Management Accounting (non-negotiable)
• CIMA or CA (SA) essential.
• Honours Degree Advantageous.
• Minimum of 3-5 years operational cost and management accounting experience, including commercial costing.
• Excellent knowledge of FMCG or manufacturing or complex plant experience required.
• Syspro or SAP experience ideal.

Duties & Responsibilities    
Through the costing team deliver on the following:
Costing Management

• Ensure costings going to the customer/sales team is accurate.
• Ensure costing template used is updated, relevant and relevant (i.e accurate recipes, costs).
• Partner with New Product Develop, Operations and Sales teams to ensure all parties understand the commercial impact of relevant costing.
• Ensure all costings is in a library where only one version can be accessed by the teams (i.e manage versions).

BOM Management

• Maintain product costing system (MACS).
• Develop, oversee and drive momentum of continuous BOM and routing audit processes to be conducted by Processing and Ops resources.
• Support initiatives designed to control costs and maximize profitability.
• Review and provide insight into proposed changes to product costs (as a result of trials or change in specifications) and new product proposals.
• Maintain the integrity and support proper execution of the NPD approval process for BOM changes/additions.
• Load new BOM’s for trial codes requested from Master Data.
• Calculate and implement any approved changes to product costing, clearly outlining the impact of such changes on the cost base and ultimately, profitability.
• Monitor, review and provide feedback on the actual impact of changes that have been made and new product costing as part of the “post launch” process.
• Ensure all BOM changes are supported by an audit trial.

Profitability & Business Analytics, Information and Data Management

• Drive enhanced business profitability and performance information designed to unlock margin opportunities and influence improved contributions.
• Identify opportunities for value added reporting to improve the quality and content of reporting and message management.
• Development of a central business performance and tracking platform, through innovative reporting tools and business analytics.
• Share relevant data with senior management teams to enable reliable business decision making.

BOM Audits & Factory Trials

• Ensure the team is always available for factory trials to enable accurate costings.
• On a quarterly basis BOM audits will be performed with the broader operations team and needs to be facilitated by this function.
•  Ensure findings from BOM audits are clearly reported & executed with relevant approval.

Commercial Insight and Technical Expertise

• Provide calculations, detailed analysis, presentations and associated recommendations emanating from any and all queries that arise as a result of changes in business operations, the economic climate or potentially might offer more profitable solutions.
• Provide practical commercial expertise and insights to the Speciality Exec and run with any ad hoc business performance enhancement requests.

Stock take management

• Co-ordination and management of monthly stock take processes including variance analysis and reporting.
• Review tools in preparation for the month stock take.

Closing Date    
2023/07/01