Summary: Plant Controller at Unga Holdings. Responsible for overseeing manufacturing costs, inventory valuation, budgetary control, and financial reporting at the plant level to drive operational efficiency and profitability. Requires 5+ years’ experience in cost accounting or plant finance within a manufacturing environment.
Role Purpose:
Reporting to the Business Controller, the overall purpose of this role is to drive Plant productivity through Financial Planning, Cost Management, Product Costing, Inventory Management, and Internal Controls ensuring adherence to UHL’s financial policies and procedures.
Key
Duties and Responsibilities:
Financial Planning
- Drive Total Plant(s) budgeting
process. Coordinate and support budget information gathering process and
ensure meeting of plant objectives and aid management decision making.
Cost Management
- Cost control – analyse, identify,
and drive exploitation of cost saving opportunities.
- Lead cost effective &
efficiency initiatives across the business and ensure maximization of
product margins.
Product Costing
- Work closely with the Plant
Manager to drive product cost competitiveness.
- Maintain accurate product costing
in SAP (activity type and overheads rates updates)
- Work closely with the Business
Controller to develop competitive pricing strategies for various products
to drive maximization of margins.
Internal Controls
- Ensure effective internal
controls are in place within plant revenue, expenditure, inventory
processes etc to prevent loss of company’s assets.
Inventory Management
- Ensure optimum stockholding and a
sound inventory control system.
- Maintain and develop monthly
stock taking and reconciliation procedures for all sites and depots.
- Ensure inventory variances are
fully investigated, approved, and booked on a timely basis including
imported materials and external stores.
plant performance
- Prepare timely, accurate and
cost-effective plant reports and highlight variances so that management
can take effective action to improve operating performance.
- Support the payables and
receivables sections. Ensure smooth information and documentation flow for
supplier payments processing at CSO.
people management
- Identify gaps and build
capability for the Team.
- Orientation, induction, and
training of team members.
- Manage Performance weekly,
Monthly.
- Drive Succession Planning for the
Team.
- Uphold the company’s code of
business conduct and ethics policy.
- Ensure compliance to company
programs including HR activities, Continual Improvement initiatives,
Safety, GMP.
Job Requirements
- A University Graduate in a
business-related field
- Qualified Accountant (CPA(K),
ACCA, or equivalent)
- Computer literate with hands-on
working knowledge of SAP (CO,MM, PP), spread sheets and other MS Office
Applications
- 5 years’ work experience in a
manufacturing environment, with a track record of inventory and production
process achievement.
Key Competencies
- Displays Commercial Acumen
- Challenges Status Quo
- Aligns with Strategic Vision
- Communicates Strategy
- Executes with Speed
- Influences and Persuades
- Develops Self & Team
- Collaborates Across Team
- Instils Trust and Integrity
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