Management Accountant (Costing)

Recruitpro Solutions; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Recruitpro Solutions in Centurion seeks a senior costing professional to lead standard costing, cost roll, and new and non-standard product costing within a busy finance team, reporting to the Group Financial Manager.

You will work closely with engineering, production and procurement to validate BOMs and routings, manage overhead absorption, inventory, WIP and GIT reconciliations, and perform margin analysis, cost-reduction initiatives and make-vs-buy decisions using SYSPRO and advanced Excel.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years' costing experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong knowledge of standard and actual costing, overhead absorption, variance analysis and inventory valuation.
• Hands-on ERP experience (SYSPRO an advantage) and advanced Excel.

Responsibilities

• Standard costing and cost roll
• New and non-standard product costing
• BOM and routing validation
• Overhead recovery rates
• Inventory, WIP and GIT reconciliations
• Stock counts and variance investigation
• Slow-moving and obsolete stock provisions
• Landed and import costing
• Production cost variance analysis
• Make-vs-buy and local-vs-offshore analysis
• Product and customer margin analysis
• Cost-reduction initiatives
• ERP super-user (inventory and costing)

Skills

Costing

ERP systems

Variance analysis

Inventory valuation

BOM & routing validation

Tools

SYSPRO

Excel

SQL

Power BI

Job description

This position is based at a manufacturing company in Centurion
This is a senior, hands-on role reporting to the Group Financial Manager. This person will work closely with engineering, production and procurement in a finance team

• Standard costing and cost roll
• New and non-standard product costing
• BOM and routing validation
• Overhead recovery rates
• Inventory, WIP and GIT reconciliations
• Stock counts and variance investigation
• Slow-moving and obsolete stock provisions
• Landed and import costing
• Production cost variance analysis
• Make-vs-buy and local-vs-offshore analysis
• Product and customer margin analysis
• Cost-reduction initiatives
• ERP super-user (inventory and costing)
• 5–8 years' costing experience in a manufacturing environment, including standard costing and inventory valuation
• Strong knowledge of standard and actual costing, overhead absorption, variance analysis and inventory valuation
• Hands-on ERP experience (SYSPRO an advantage) and advanced Excel

Advantageous

• Experience in a mining or mining-supply environment
• SQL or Power BI
• Experience with multi-entity, imported or international cost bases
• A track record of improving processes, and practical use of AI-enabled tools