Job
Title: Cost
Accountant
Location: Nairobi
Salary: 80,000
Experience
in Health Care / Pharmaceutical Industry Required
Description: Lead the development of a cost accounting framework in order to enable reporting of contribution margin by specialty as a first priority, but ultimately to determine the cost of each individual episode of patient care.
Description: Lead the development of a cost accounting framework in order to enable reporting of contribution margin by specialty as a first priority, but ultimately to determine the cost of each individual episode of patient care.
As
owner of the cost accounting initiative and contribution margin reporting,
provide support to financial analysts as required for budgeting and forecasting
purposes
Data Collection
Data Collection
- Construct
data accumulation systems for a cost accounting system
- Create
and review the controls needed for data accumulation and reporting systems
Inventory
- Coordinate
physical inventory counts and cycle counts
- Investigate
cycle counting variances and resolve issues
- Update
standard costs in the bill of materials
- Review
standard and actual costs for inaccuracies
- Validate
the cost of goods sold as part of the month-end close
- Accumulate
and apply overhead costs as required by generally accepted accounting
principles
- Work
with the materials review board to locate and dispose of obsolete
inventory
Analysis
- Conduct
ongoing process constraint analyses
- Report
on breakeven points by products, work centers, and factories
- Report
on margins by product and division
- Report
on periodic variances and their causes, focusing in particular on spending
variances
- Analyze
capital budgeting requests
- Perform
cost accumulation tasks as a member of the target costing group
Desired Qualifications:
- 3+ years of accounting/finance
experience.
- Also,
a BA/BS degree, as well as excellent analysis skills, and the ability to
collaborate with a multi-department team.
- Also
helpful to have experience manipulating large databases.
- Experience in Health Care/ Pharmaceutical Industry Required
Working Conditions: The
cost accountant generally works in an office environment, but is expected to be
highly familiar with all operations, and to regularly visit all significant
company operations.
email: recruitment@cdl.co.ke
email: recruitment@cdl.co.ke