Johannesburg: Plant Controller posted by Hire Resolve

About the Role

The Plant Controller is a critical role within our organization, responsible for providing finance and accounting leadership to the Plant Manager. As the finance business partner to the Plant Executive Committee, you will play a key role in planning and coordinating the plant budget and business planning activities, ensuring alignment with corporate policies and practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide management reports to Management with recommendations on a monthly basis in order for the business management team to make relevant and pro-active adjustments to reduce costs.
• Define and develop reports for the reporting on plant performance.
• Co-ordination and collection of annual cost centre budgets, including SAP models to calculate budgeted unit costs.
• Preparation of Rolling Forecast and month estimated costs.
• Ownership of the World Class Manufacturing Cost Deployment Pillar.
• Monitor, manage and accurately report on Product Costing (Standard Costs & Actual Costs) to support business decisions.
• Perform cost simulations and provide unit costs for new products in order for the product team to make accurate decisions around pricing.
• Ensure annual standard costs for all products are set up.
• Application of cost accounting systems and procedures.
• Conduct cost analysis and production variance analysis in order to identify and address anomalies.
• Standardisation of costing processes and procedures in Gyproc to achieve efficiency and consistency.
• Drive costs down by continuously reviewing costs and identifying opportunities for savings.
• Ensure accurate K2 Financial Data Reporting for benchmarking with other SG entities.
• Co-ordinate the preparation of the Cost of Factors file monthly to enable the proactive management of costs in the plants.
• Attendance and active participation at Operations Management meetings.
• Drive compliance of business controls with the plant leadership team.
• Participation in inventory counts, review inventory scrapping and adjustments in order to ensure compliance with business controls as well as to influence the minimisation of such activities.
• Co-ordinate SAP CO month end closure.
• Revaluation of Finished Goods inventory to actual.
• Adhoc exercises as and when required by management.
• Ensure adherence to Quality, Environmental Health and Safety requirements of the Organization.

Requirements

• Honours Degree in Management Accounting / Finance or equivalent.
• CIMA or CA(SA) qualified preferred.
• 5+ years of management accounting with strong costing experience in a manufacturing environment.
• SAP knowledge is a pre requisite.
• Advanced computer Literacy (MS Office).
• Strong analytical skills.

Qualifications

• Completed Honours Degree in Management Accounting / Finance or equivalent.

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