Cost / Management Accountant
Duties
- Establishing and updating Standard Costs of
projects, manufactured and purchased items.
- Ensuring minimal variance between actual and
standard costs.
- Advising on product profitability and pricing
structures, evaluating sanctions and monitoring contract prices renewals.
- Preparing financial reports for decision
making including the monthly budget control.
- Reporting Costs of Budgets and Cash Flow
Budgets.
- Modeling of Costs data for purposes of
decision making by management participating in Work-In-Progress and
Engineering Stocks and projects evaluations.
- Reviewing and analyzing weekly and monthly
operating costs against budget and analyzing any significant variances.
- Updating standard costs in bill of materials
in conjunction with the Quantity Surveyor.
- Reviewing standard and actual costs for
inaccuracies.
- Validating the costs of projects as part of
the project end.
- Accumulate and apply overhead costs as
required by generally accepted accounting principles.
- Reporting on breakeven points by project and
work centers.
- Reporting on margins by project.
- Reporting on periodic variances and their
causes, focusing in particular on spending variances.
- Analyzing capital budgeting requests.
- Must have a flair on process and cost
accounting
Qualification & Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting option, 2nd
class, upper division or 1st class
- CMA/CPA (K)/ACCA qualification is mandatory
- Minimum 5 years experience in
manufacturing/construction industry mostly handling
process/cost/management accounting.
- Experience in interpreting and analyzing
financial data is essential.
- High numeric abilities.
- Over 40 years of age
- Advanced computer skills
- Working knowledge of SAP software is an added
advantage.
- Ability to read, interpret data and create
reports and presentations as required.
- Good organization skills.
Applications alongside a detailed CV
and testimonials, daytime telephone contacts, names and addresses of three
referees, recent colored passport size photo.
Qualified candidates to apply through cvs@careerdirections.co.ke
Qualified candidates to apply through cvs@careerdirections.co.ke