Job Summary
Junior Cost Accountant | Stellenbosch
Hire Resolve is seeking a highly analytical and detail-oriented Junior Cost Accountant to join a dynamic global player in the wine industry. Working with a prestigious portfolio of wine brands, this role is essential for calculating accurate manufacturing costs, tracking gross margins, and ensuring the absolute integrity of stock data across integrated production and financial systems.
Key Performance Areas:
Inventory & Variance Analysis: Review and verify the accuracy of physical stock counts across multiple winehouses; analyze and investigate discrepancies and report variances.
Production Order Processing: Update Production Orders (PORs) within the ERP system, ensuring that the correct quantities and input costs of consumed and produced stock are timeously processed.
Supplier Pricing & Masterfile Maintenance: Maintain a comprehensive Costing Masterfile by tracking and comparing prices of new and existing suppliers.
Finished Goods Costing: Analyze finished goods, dry goods, and wine blending components to establish accurate manufacturing costs, helping to determine correct selling prices and gross margins.
System Integration: Ensure seamless and accurate stock intake and data tracking between specialized production software (WineMS) and the core financial ERP system.
Audit & Ad Hoc Support: Assist with internal and external compliance audits and provide general operational support to the broader finance department.
Requirements:
Education: BCom Degree or Diploma in Financial Accounting / Cost Accounting.
Professional Registration: Studying towards or registered with CIMA or SAIPA is highly beneficial.
Experience: 3–5 years of general cost management, cost accounting, and financial administration experience within a corporate environment.
Industry Knowledge: Working experience within the Wine Industry and a solid understanding of manufacturing processes are highly advantageous.
Systems: Previous experience utilizing Business Central (Microsoft Dynamics) and WineMS is a distinct advantage.
Attributes: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, excellent attention to detail, and a proactive approach to accuracy.
Position Details:
Location: Stellenbosch area.
Employment Type: Permanent.
Ready to sharpen your costing career in the Winelands?
? Email your CV and all supporting documents , as well as how you match the requirements, to lidene.pienaar@hireresolve.us
? Visit www.hireresolve.com
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Specialists in Civil, Structural, Mechanical Engineering, Information Technology, Mining, Manufacturing and Finance Careers! Hire Resolve is one of the larger and more agile South African recruitment companies that focus on placing professionals and skilled people in permanent employment and contract employment. We prefer and focus on working with top quality professionals and candidates in South Africa and Africa. Hire Resolve has successfully placed Engineering, Mining, IT, Manufacturing and Finance professionals with top firms across the Western Cape, Eastern Cape, KwaZulu Natal, Gauteng and in Africa. Hire Resolve has assisted candidates to find jobs at over 100 JSE listed companies of which many are global companies with offices and operations in South Africa and Africa. It is for this reason that we are well respected in the industries we operate in and in the recruitment industry.
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