Manufacturing Cost Accountant - ERP & BOM

Humankind Group; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 520,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Humankind Group in Cape Town seeks a hands-on Cost Accountant to join the finance team. You will be responsible for providing accurate visibility of manufacturing costs, managing job costing, supporting inventory and WIP controls, and ensuring supplier and purchasing processes are properly maintained.

This role collaborates with engineering, procurement and production, requiring detail-oriented analysis, strong ERP experience and the ability to meet month-end deadlines.

Qualifications

• Diploma or degree in Cost & Management Accounting, Accounting, Finance.
• Approximately 36 years of relevant accounting experience in a manufacturing, engineering, fabrication or production environment.
• Practical experience in job costing and/or manufacturing costing.
• Experience with inventory, supplier accounts, purchase orders and month-end processes.
• Strong Excel skills and practical experience using an ERP or accounting system.
• Good understanding of general ledger accounting and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Strong analytical ability, attention to detail and commercial awareness.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and review costing for machines, production jobs and engineering projects.
• Track actual costs against jobs including materials, labour, subcontracting and other direct costs.
• Analyse variances between budgeted/standard and actual costs.
• Prepare costing, manufacturing cost and gross-margin reports.
• Validate Bills of Materials (BOMs) and component costs in the ERP.
• Assist with inventory valuation, stock counts, and WIP reconciliations.
• Monitor material issues, returns, slow-moving stock and obsolete inventory.
• Raise and control purchase orders with accurate cost allocations.
• Perform PO-to-GRV-to-supplier invoice matching.
• Prepare supplier reconciliations and month-end close activities.
• Support ERP improvements and internal controls.
• Prepare monthly manufacturing cost, inventory and variance reports.

Skills

Cost accounting

Analytical skills

ERP systems

Excel

Education

Cost & Management Accounting degree

Tools

Palladium ERP

SAP

Sage

Job description

Humankind Group in Cape Town seeks a hands-on Cost Accountant to join the finance team. You will be responsible for providing accurate visibility of manufacturing costs, managing job costing, supporting inventory and WIP controls, and ensuring supplier and purchasing processes are properly maintained.

This role collaborates with engineering, procurement and production, requiring detail-oriented analysis, strong ERP experience and the ability to meet month-end deadlines.