This role is for a proactive and highly analytical Management Accountant in the leading flexible packaging industry. The position is crucial for supporting business performance and strategic decision-making, while also encompassing inventory and warehouse oversight to ensure smooth operations and accurate reporting.
Key Responsibilities
Financial & Management Reporting
- Generate accurate and timely reports on inventory, dispatch, waste, stock valuation, consumption, and WIP.
- Provide clear insights and recommendations to management for informed decision-making.
Database & Ledger Maintenance
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date records across general ledgers, inventory files, pricing data, purchases, reorder levels, and closing balance adjustments to ensure data integrity and financial compliance.
Cost Analysis & Cost Monitoring
- Analyze cost structures across production, procurement, logistics, and administrative functions.
- Track actual costs versus budgets or standards, investigate variances, and present explanations and cost trends to management.
Waste Cost Analysis
- Monitor all waste-related costs—disposal, recycling, hazardous waste, and transport.
- Analyze generation trends, assess financial impact, identify inefficiencies, and highlight opportunities for waste cost reduction.
Supply Chain Performance Monitoring (KPIs & Dashboards)
- Develop and maintain KPI dashboards to provide visibility into supply chain performance, highlight bottlenecks, track efficiencies, and identify areas requiring corrective action.
Data Integration & Financial Intelligence (BI & AI)
- Integrate financial data into BI and AI systems; design dashboards; leverage predictive analytics; automate reporting processes; and translate digital insights into actionable strategies that enhance performance, efficiency, and profitability.
Inventory Monitoring & Control
- Ensure accurate inventory valuation, strengthen stock controls, analyze inventory performance, and provide insights that optimize stock levels, reduce losses, and support compliant, efficient supply chain operations.
Warehouse & Stores Coordination
- Strengthen stock controls and compliance.
- Oversee and verify physical stock counts.
- Monitor warehouse operating expenses.
- Evaluate operational efficiency.
- Support safety, waste, and compliance initiatives within warehouse and stores operations.
Staff Training & Development
- Train, guide, and supervise warehouse and stores staff on procedures, system usage, safety, and inventory control practices to ensure high operational standards and compliance.
Additional Duties
- Carry out any other responsibilities assigned by management to support operational and financial objectives.
Key Requirements & Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Accounting, Finance, Logistics, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Professional accounting qualification (CPA, ACCA) preferred.
- Minimum 7 years experience in management accounting, inventory management, budgeting, and financial planning.
- Proven ability to analyze financial data and generate actionable insights.
- Proficiency in SAP Business One (SAP B1), and MS Excel & Power BI.
- Strong skills in preparing and presenting management reports to senior leadership.
- Experience in manufacturing, preferably flexible packaging, is highly desirable.
- Excellent organizational, analytical, and communication skills.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks, train staff effectively, and meet tight deadlines.
