Finance Manager Jobs

Permanent/Full Time

5 - 10 Years

First Degree

Manufacturing Jobs

Not Specified

• Bachelor’s in Accounting, Finance, or a business-related degree • 5+ years of accounting experience with a minimum of 3 years of experience working as a Finance or Cost Accounting Manager • Previous experience in budgeting and forecasting • Proficient in the use of Microsoft Excel • Minimum 5 years of accounting and finance experience • Minimum 3 years of experience in a manufacturing environment • Cost accounting and standard product costing experience with complex bills of materials • Experience in the food/packaging industry • Experience in building labor costing models • Demonstrated expertise using ERP systems and Microsoft Excel • Demonstrated ability to link and analyze plant operational metrics to financial performance

2023-05-31

Responsibilities

• Preparation, analysis, and presentation of all plant manufacturing budgets for direct labor, material yields, operating outputs, and departmental spending.

• Preparation of all daily, weekly, and period-end operational performance reports with comments and recommendations for corrective action. (KPIs)

• Assists plant manager in the monthly presentation of operating results to senior management. • Identifies opportunities to drive cost reduction across all factory and product cost pools (materials, labor, variable & fixed expenses, capital, and inventory).

• Maintains proper internal controls over all factory assets, including raw and packaging materials, finished goods, supplies, machine parts, and capital equipment.

• Responsible for the proper application of company financial policies

• Provides guidance in the use and maintenance of the Payroll systems in partnership with the HR Manager.

• Develops maintains and ensure adherence to financial and operational controls

• Develops and implement audit control testing protocols and procedures

• Partners with the GM and operational leads to develop costing for all items

• Create and manage cost routings for key activities (e.g. labor, overhead, utilities)

• Manages standard costs for all WIP and finished goods items

• Calculate and process necessary journal entries in the ERP system

• Ensures accuracy of inventory and associated sub-ledger transactions (physical and book)

• Develops management reporting on various timeline cycles for review with plant and corporate leadership

• Prepares month-end balance sheet account reconciliations

• Leads year-end financial activities

• Leads the process of creating standard costs and variance planning for annual budget and periodic forecasts • Partners with plant operations to develop all volume planning processes

• Develops a labor costing model for production and packaging operations

• Partners with operations to develop a continuous pipeline of productivity initiatives and support with financial valuations

• Reviews P&L accounts, providing critical insights on changes to the budget, forecast, and prior year

• Provides financial analysis in support of ad hoc plant and corporate initiatives

Spintex

Greater Accra

The Mint Square, Tema Comm.3