Senior Cost Analyst

Job Description

Duties & Responsibilities

As a Senior Costing Analyst, the successful candidate would be responsible for the Integrated Supply Chain Finance Team for Africa, supporting the Costing Processes, Inventory Management and Control, Budget and Forecast Processes of the Manufacturing Businesses, and Business Partnering with the Operations Functions for the business.

Essential Duties/Principal Responsibilities:

Standard Cost calculations and system updates for Manufacturing Businesses in South Africa and Algeria.
Performs Costing and Inventory Controlling tasks as well as supports Stock Count Processes for all South Africa and Algeria entities.
Performs Excess and Obsolete and slow moving inventory provisions calculations for South Africa and Algeria entities and provides insights to Supply Chain teams to manage them proactively.
Performs Operations Scorecard metrics calculations like Direct and Indirect Inflation, Productivity, Savings and Economic ppv for South Africa and Algeria entities.
Supports Operations KPIs calculations like Productivity, Efficiency and Utilization for the manufacturing businesses in South Africa and Algeria.
Supports month end closure tasks and processes by ensuring the compliance to US GAAP and documentation availability as per Sarbanes-Oxley guidelines.
Performs Actual Standard Cost and Margin Analysis by customer and by product to provide insight to stakeholders.
Supports ISCF Manager to prepare monthly Operations Business Review reporting packs for South Africa with various financial reporting and analysis, forecasts, budgets, and variance analysis for P&L and Working Capital.
Validates monthly XGP and CI saving actuals, provides excellent business partnering to Procurement and Supply Chain teams to achieve the saving targets.
Assists with ad hoc tasks and requests from business as needed.

Skills and Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field or equivalent
5+ years of relevant work experience
SAP Knowledge is must
One Stream Knowledge preferable
Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
Fluent in English
Experience in US GAAP and SOX
Strong Technical Accounting Skills
Ability to adapt to change quickly
Ability to communicate well with others