Description:
*Purpose:* A large pharmaceutical company covering a wide variety of product types and active pharmaceutical ingredients is seeking a *Cost & Management Accountant *who will assist the financial manager with costing and management accounts in preparing final costs for tenders including budgets, prepare preliminary costs and commercial evaluations for various business decisions and prepare standard cost variance analysis on reporting variances *Key Job Outputs:* *Cost Accounting* * Assist with budgets, tenders and reviews * Prepare product and preliminary costings, specific cost impacts and carry out associated procedures * Record cost information for use in expenditure control * Maintain financial system integrity ensuring that signal codes are applied correctly * Ensure that product costs are complete and accurate * Maintain costing database * Implement and review changes to item master * Applied marginal costing where applicable for transfer pricing * Ensure that all transfer pricing mark ups are adhered to * Manage roll ups of new products * Assist in month-end closures of the general ledger and other reconciliations *Analysis Reporting * * Perform and report on feasibility studies * Analyse and report on changes in products, materials and methods * Determine effects on cost commercial evaluations * Conduct and report on cost review and analysis on benchmarking and trend analysis * Analyse and advise on factors affecting prices and profitability * Prepare and provide reports on standard cost variances *Operating Input* * Provide technical and operational input on operational planning of the unit and on the prioritisation of objectives * Indicate required changes in resources to enable achievement of work objectives * Monitor and control the use of assets and resources within area of responsibility * Apply advanced understanding of area of specialisation * Analyse concepts and suggest streamlined procedures * Provide information for reports, as required by the supervisor * Compile standardised reports and consolidate documents * Comply with document filing requirements, maintaining and updating records and systems * Update SOPs on a continual basis * Undertake IT improvement projects where required *Time Allocation* * Cost Accounting – 40% * Analysis and Reporting – 40% * Operational Input – 20% *Deliverables* * Ensure that budgets, tenders and reviews are completed timeously * Ensure that product and preliminary costs are prepared timeously * Ensure that reviews and analysis is completed accurately and timeously * See that benchmarking and analysis completed accurately and timeously * Handle feasibility studies completed when needed * Ensure that databases are maintained, accurate and up to date * Ensure that product information is up to date * Manage new products, costing and impact scenarios completed * maintained
11 Mar 2022;
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gumtree.co.za