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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.
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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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