Stocks Accountant
Job Purpose:
The incumbent has the integral role
of ensuring that the company’s stocks are correctly valued, pricing for
customers is updated & correctly maintained, maintaining GL/ECS integrity
and ensuring that company books reflect the correct position at any one time,
by ensuring that the books to physical reconciliations are done on a regular
basis.
Responsibilities
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Tracking the sales order life cycle
and ensure that orders update to AR and GL. Investigating correcting and
highlighting discrepancies as necessary including late/overdue delivery
confirmations.
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Ensuring that product purchases are
correctly recorded in the general ledger recorded and on time
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Reviewing and reconciling stock in
transit accounts and ensuring that these are cleared as and when transactions
are completed.
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Reviewing and reconciling all landed
costs accrued against actual payments and ensuring these are cleared as and
when transactions are completed.
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Reviewing monthly stock gains/losses
and ensuring that these are within tolerances and are approved as per MOA
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Ensure that stock accounts reconcile
within ECS and between ECS and the General ledger. Investigate integrity
reports and ensure that differences are cleared.
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Preparing the month end stock
valuations, validating the Cost of sales and margin analysis.
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Timely update of system costs and
advising business of expected costs.
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Coordinating the quarterly and annual
physical stock takes for all depots.
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Acting as JDE stocks focal point.
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Providing advice and assistance to
depot stocks staff as necessary
Key Challenges:
The incumbent has to maintain the
integrity of the volumes and values in JDE stock module with their equivalents
in the general ledger. This means that a huge number of inter-related
transactions have to be processed accurately and in the correct order against
very tight closing deadlines
Qualifications
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Strong analytical skills.
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Financial background and/or
experience in financial analysis
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Finance, OU and OP experience
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Good systems skills and knowledge of
ERP (preferably JDE) processing systems.
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Good communications, influencing and
networking skills.
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Knowledge of JDE ECS module and its
integration with other subsystems.
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Ability to self-start
Competences Required:
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Functional Finance Leadership Skill
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Stocks Valuation & Reconciliation
Knowledge
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Analysis and problem solving Skill
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Presentation Skills
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Negotiation Skills
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MI and business decision support
knowledge
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Customer focus skill
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Deliver Results skill
How to Apply
