Education & Knowledge:

- Qualified COST accountant / ICWA/CMA.

- CA/CPA is additional but not compulsory.

- General accounting.

- SAP proficiency.

- Excel and office tools.

- Manufacturing processes knowledge.

Work Experience:

- Minimum 10 years of plant cost control experience in an industrial environment.

Role and Responsibilities

Produce the periodic statements for the reporting:

- Manage data in SAP to be able to produce an accurate monthly production report.

- Update raw materials and semi-finished products, control stocks and analyze discrepancies.

- Provide direct labor productivity reporting and analysis and with machine hour analysis.

- Estimate product costs & supervise complete cycle of standard costing and review of standard costing on timely manner.

- Edit, control the stock of finished products, and calculate obsolescence.

- Calculate the obsolescence of cutters purchased, consigned, and reclaimed.

- Recalculate PPVs, JCV & other variances.

- Cost Run and Cycle counting activities.

Supervise & Control Accounting closings:

- Manage month-end closing and prepare monthly financial statements and other operational reports for site.

- Manage the inventories with respect of the inventory procedures.

- Ensure the reliability of inventory levels, as well as report inventory levels

- Control and manage the inventories of raw materials, in progress and finished products on the site.

- GL scrutiny & providing manufacturing P & L with accurate reporting.

- Control and manage the inventories of fixed assets on the site.

- Reconcile these inventories with the accounts and control perspective on inventory and stock periodically manner where Physical vs actual variance analysis.

- Perform reconciliations between accounting statements and results from reporting and dashboards.

Assist the Plant Manager and other Managers in the analysis and monitoring of indicators:

- Present the report during the monthly meeting and analyze variances and communicates explanations to management.

- Review analyses of activities, costs, operations, and forecast data to determine the progress of the department or division toward established goals and objectives.

- Support and challenge the operational teams in the management of their activity and identify and propose corrective measures to improve profitability.

- Help them if necessary to develop analysis tables (data from SAP, setting up an Excel table).

- Monitor and implement plant internal controls (in conjunction with corporate policies) as necessary to ensure reporting integrity, safeguard company assets, and identify risks. Follow up on their compliance.

- Monitoring and review of productivity and efficiency metrics of the production area.

- Manage the annual budget and monthly forecasts.

Develop Management Procedures and Tools:

- Set up procedures and management tools.

- Develop reporting and internal procedures according to group requests.

- Design business dashboards.

- Answer to requests from internal and external auditors during periodic audits.

Competencies (skills & abilities)

- Demonstrate strong technical proficiency, sound reasoning, analytical and problem-solving skills,

- Manage budget and forecast techniques as well as proficiency with financial statement analysis and projection,

- Have good planning, organizational and strong analytical skills,

- Handle multiple concurrent tasks and meeting strict deadlines,

- To read, analyze, and interpret financial reports and legal documents,

- To respond effectively to the most sensitive inquiries from the business,

- To facilitate, interact with, influence, resolve conflict and drive consensus among individuals from a variety of cultures and disciplines, at times under stressful circumstances.

- Show judgment and maturity with a reputation for ethics and integrity.

- Demonstrate excellent communication and presentation skills, and excellent interpersonal skills,

- Demonstrate a high degree of confidentiality and discretion when dealing with sensitive issues,

- To comprehend and communicate accurately, clearly and concisely in English.