Senior Project Accountant needed at Unique Group
Unique Group’s job vacancy, Career and Recruitment
Job title : Senior Project Accountant jobs in Gauteng
Job Location : Gauteng, Cape Town
Deadline : August 19, 2022
Quick Recommended Links
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
How to Apply for this Offer
Please forward your CV to vacancysa@uniquegroup.com, or deliver by hand to the HR office at Unique Group, 152 Gunner Circle, Epping, Cape Town, South Africa.
All applications must contain certified copies of relevant certificates and at least 3 contactable work references.
If you have not had any response in two weeks from the date of application, please consider your application unsuccessful. Closing date for submissions: 19 August 2022.