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Requirements:
- CA(SA), CIMA (CGMA) or SAIPA professional accountant; CIMA is a strong advantage given the costing focus.
- A degree in accounting or finance.
- At least 5 years in a senior finance role (financial manager, senior financial accountant or cost accountant) in a manufacturing business.
- Exposure to trade finance, customs duty drawback or export VAT.
- Exposure to brewery or food-grade stainless steel equipment.
- Job costing in a project-based, make-to-order or engineer-to-order environment; metal fabrication, engineering or process equipment preferred.
- Inventory and WIP valuation, stock counts and stock reconciliations.
- Imported materials, landed costs and foreign currency transactions.
- Producing month-end management accounts and managing an audit.
- Managing at least one direct report.
- Standard and actual costing, overhead absorption and variance analysis.
- IFRS for SMEs or full IFRS, including IAS 2 inventory and IFRS 15 revenue from contracts.
- Experience with a mid-market ERP (Palladium, Sage, SYSPRO or similar), ideally including a costing or manufacturing module.
Responsibilities:
- Own the job costing model across all projects: material, labour, subcontract and overhead allocation per job.
- Set and maintain labour and overhead recovery rates, and review them against actuals.
- Compare quoted cost and margin with actual cost per project.
- Explain variances to the MD and the project team.
- Work with Sales and Projects on cost estimates so quotes reflect real cost.
- Track buy-outs and supplier costs against project budgets as projects progress.
- Value raw materials, WIP and finished goods accurately at each month-end.
- Run stock counts and investigate variances.
- Keep the stock ledger reconciled to the general ledger.
- Manage imported stock costing, including landed cost (freight, duty, clearing) and foreign exchange.
- Deliver the monthly management accounts to an agreed timetable, including project margin reporting.
- Keep balance sheet reconciliations current; clear suspense and control accounts monthly.
- Apply revenue recognition policy consistently at project level.
- Prepare for and manage the annual audit.
- Maintain purchase, payment and stock controls appropriate to a growing manufacturer.
- Oversee VAT, payroll taxes and customs compliance, including duty drawback claims.
- Maintain the weekly rolling cash flow forecast.
- Manage trade finance drawdowns and settlements and the facility's borrowing base reporting.
- Own the finance and costing modules in Palladium after go-live; drive process improvement and data accuracy.
- Manage, develop and review the work of the Accountant.
Please note that if you do not receive a response within 2 weeks, your application has been unsuccessful.
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