Senior Management Accountant – Manufacturing Costing

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

Job summary

Recruitpro Solutions in Centurion is seeking a senior costing professional to join a hands-on finance team in a manufacturing environment. The role collaborates with engineering, production and procurement to manage standard costings and product costing.

You will analyse margins, oversee BOM validation, inventory valuation, and cost-reduction initiatives, using SYSPRO and advanced Excel; experience with SQL/Power BI is advantageous.

Qualifications

• CIMA (CGMA) qualification is required.
• BCom Accounting, BCom Cost & Management Accounting or equivalent degree.
• 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 preferred) and advanced Excel proficiency.

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).
• Process automation.

Skills

Costing experience

Standard costing

Variance analysis

Inventory valuation

Advanced Excel

ERP user

SYSPRO experience

SQL

Power BI

Education

CIMA (CGMA)

BCom Accounting / BCom Cost & Management Accounting or equivalent

Tools

SYSPRO

Excel (Advanced)

SQL

Power BI

Job description

Recruitpro Solutions in Centurion is seeking a senior costing professional to join a hands-on finance team in a manufacturing environment. The role collaborates with engineering, production and procurement to manage standard costings and product costing.

You will analyse margins, oversee BOM validation, inventory valuation, and cost-reduction initiatives, using SYSPRO and advanced Excel; experience with SQL/Power BI is advantageous.