Cost Accountant at Promasidor Nigeria Limited

Promasidor - We are an African company proud of our heritage and totally committed to the continent. We manufacture, market and sell unique brands which bring practicality and pleasure to millions of consumers across Africa.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Cost Accountant

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time - Associate

Objectives

• Monitor Budget and performance in relation to manufacturing standards, set standards for unit costs and recommend appropriate cost-saving opportunities.

Responsibilities
Coordination of manufacturing review process:

• Agree job |manufacturing review calendar with budget holders Generate monthly pre-close reports and analysis.
• Conduct monthly cost reviews for all SKU’s, providing adequate documentation.
• Conduct detailed analysis of all production cost accounts,
• Investigate and follow-up with responsible parties to resolve erroneous postings and raising necessary journals to correct them.
• Report significant omissions in the job costing to management. Investigate and report on all manufacturing variances.
• Run post-close reports.
• Develop cost-saving initiatives for presentation to management, with subsequent implementation.
• Ensure adequacy and completeness of all entries in the accounts with correct classification to job, location and cost center.

Ownership and compilation of investment capex documents:

• Complete necessary investment case documents
• Validate | collate all base information from necessary sources o Maintain and update capex model
• Reconcile capex proposals against budget
• Complete presentations for investment cases

Business Partnership:

• Monthly manufacturing cost flash
• Monthly detailed cost analysis by job o Quarterly BOM reviews
• Monthly tracking against targets
• Ad-hoc analysis.

Requirements
Education:

• B.Sc / HND in Accounting, Finance or any other relevant discipline plus ICAN or ACCA Qualification.

Experience:

• Minimum of 5 Years Relevant Experience.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Strong organization skill
• Good communication skill
• Problem-solving
• Research abilities.
• Strong technology expertise, Including proficiency with Microsoft Excel and experience with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.
• Time Management.

Personal Attributes:

• Simplicity
• Willingness to Learn
• Trustworthiness.
• Ethics and integrity.
• Collaboration and Team work
• Accountability

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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