Job Title: Plant Controller
Hiring Organization: Safal
Group
Location – Locality: Mombasa
Location – Region: Kenya
Industry: Manufacturing
Job Type: Full
Time
Salary: KES
Competitive
Date Posted: 04/01/2024
Responsible
for the accounting and internal controls in the plant and overseeing the
various financial transactions, accounting controls, and accounting functions.
Also responsible for administering the plant’s cost control function, including
coordinating the plant’s forecasting and budgeting. The position is central
point of contact between the plant and other business operation.
Key responsibilities:
- Monitor,
analyse, and report monthly actual Plant performance results against the
budget and communicate explanations to management with recommended
actions.
- Prepare
and circulate monthly Flash Reports as per timelines.
- Support
accounting operations at the plant.
- Manage
month-end closing and prepare operational reports for the plant.
- Support
the plant and operation team to achieve efficiency in production.
- Prepare
forecasts of income statement and statement of fund requirements for the
plant.
- Work
across organization boundaries and all levels of the organisation to
achieve plant and organisation objectives.
- Oversee
and manage the daily operations of the plant Accounting/Finance
- Support
Operations to meet or exceed all annual financial and operational metrics.
- Work
closely with manufacturing and plant leadership to ensure that all
financial transactions and reporting are complete, accurate and timely.
- Support
internal and external financial and operational audits and assist to
address any audit findings within the plant.
- Perform
frequent walk-throughs of manufacturing operations with Plant manager/
Leadership to address production and costing issues.
- Assist
to establish and implement short- and long-range department goals,
objectives, policies, and operating procedures.
- Support
and offer advisory in cost reduction in procurement process.
- Maintain
integrity of financial reports prepared by the plant/at the plant level.
- Monitor
and report purchase commitments and spending for CAPEX.
- Support
the deployment of cost saving and other programs to provide operating
economies and improve profitability.
- Monitor
and provide opportunities to support continuous improvement of Plant
Productivity / Gross Utilization. Support other Operations initiatives.
- Provide
support to ensure adequate cost accounting processes are in place,
including standard cost updates, physical inventory verification, periodic
cycle counts, etc.
- Ensure
proper inventory valuation in SAP system.
- Preparation
of Board pack presentations and Quarterly Management review packs.
- Refine
and maintain the integrity of the plant’s standard cost system.
- Budgetary
responsibility:
- Assist
in timely and accurate preparation of annual budget.
- Ensure
implementation of plant budget parameters
Qualifications
required:
- Bachelor’s
degree in Commerce, Finance, Accounting or Equivalent
- Qualifications
as an added advantage: MBA or CPA (K), CFA, ACCA, CA, or equivalent
- Professional
registration: ICPAK
- Experience
required:
- General
work experience (years): 12 years
- Specific
to the position (level/discipline/years): 5 years