Role Purpose
- To guarantee financial excellence at the Plant, implement stringent controls, foster accountability.
- Ensure the reliability of cost accounting key figures and / or P / L reporting for the Plant.
- Additionally, prioritize operational discipline, enhance visibility and predictability for price and performance in advance of month-end closing.
Primary Responsibilities
Cost Leadership :
Oversight of the plants closing cycle, ensuring the accuracy and reliability of the results including pricing, budgeting and plant asset booking.Ensure first time right postings, Avoid accounting errors and postings of manual journals.Assume responsibility for managing plant inventory and capital expenditure (CAPEX). This involves ensuring compliance with booking procedures, onsite management, and reviewing internal process compliance. The primary goal is to ensure that asset bookings conform to IFRS standards, asset management processes align with internal control policies, and relevant processes operate as efficiently as possible.Controls And Compliance :
Serve as the first line of defense and oversee the execution of controls as defined by Business Risks & Control.Ensuring that the Plants assigned controls accurately reflect the reality of the processes.Oversee both internal and external tax reporting for the plant. Work closely with the Treasury & Tax Manager to ensure timely completion of tax filings, respond to inquiries, and meet tax inspection requirements mandated by the local authority.Forecasting & Planning :
Support Plant operations, Finance Business Analyst on the forecast by providing inputs for forecasting / budgetingCost Management :
Analyze costs, variances on yields and consumptionsReasonability / accuracy of accrualsReconciliation of utility costs (water, electricity, effluent) between internal and municipal readings & ensure accuracy of the accrualGRN Compliance (Open PO Management, UOM receipting accuracy)Review and understanding of the reallocation journals at the plant. Root cause analysis and process improvement to reduce number of journals.Approve journalsInventory Management :
Ensure Inventory management compliance of Finished goods, raw & packaging materials and Spare PartsStock count controls (periodic stock count review, reconciliation and ensure that differences are posted) Monthly Review & Quarterly attendanceStock movements analysis and investigate anomaliesCapex Management :
Ensuring capitalization is captured correctlyValidation of Capitalization to the plantPhysical verification of assetsImpairments (identify, and request bookingsProfile :
Bachelors Degree or Masters Degree in Business, Accounting, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering or CA2 to 3 + years, in industry contextKnowledge of SAP is a plusPrevious controlling experience (preferably site manufacturing )Working knowledge of AccountingStrong leadership skillsGood communicator and the ability to work with financial and non-financial collaboratorsGood analytical skillsAbility to synthesize complex issues into actionable activitiesCapacity to anticipate future trends and developments.