Senior Cost Accountant
Role Overview
Senior Cost Accountant reporting to the Finance Manager, responsible for costing and cost control for a fruit and vegetable production and processing facility.
Works with Production, Procurement, Warehouse, Quality, Sales, and Finance teams.
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Role overview
Senior Cost Accountant reporting to the Finance Manager, responsible for costing and cost control for a fruit and vegetable production and processing facility.
Works with Production, Procurement, Warehouse, Quality, Sales, and Finance teams.
Costing and production analysis
- Prepare finished-goods and pack-size costing; create and maintain BOMs for materials, ingredients, packaging, and production consumables.
- Ensure BOMs account for quantities, yield, wastage, labour, and overhead; review changes and compare standard with actual consumption.
- Analyze material, packaging, labour, utilities, and overhead costs; calculate production costs and assess price changes and landed costs.
- Monitor yield, losses, spoilage, shrinkage, rejection, and wastage; analyze variances, investigate abnormal losses, and recommend corrective actions.
Inventory, reporting, and controls
- Value inventory and reconcile production, warehouse, ERP, and general ledger records; review adjustments and investigate stock discrepancies.
- Analyze product, customer, channel, and business-segment profitability; prepare margin, cost-of-sales, variance, and management reports.
- Support pricing, annual budgets, forecasts, month-end closing, journal entries, accruals, provisions, and inventory adjustments.
- Maintain ERP costing data and controls; improve processes and support costing and inventory system implementation, testing, migration, and upgrades.
Candidate requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, or a related field.
- At least five years of accounting experience, including strong cost-accounting exposure.
- Hands-on knowledge of material costing, BOMs, inventory valuation, standard costing, variance analysis, and yield and wastage analysis.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel and ERP system knowledge; strong analytical, commercial, problem-solving, and detail-oriented skills.
- Food production, fresh produce, FMCG, manufacturing, or perishable-goods experience is preferred.
- CMA, ACCA, CA, CPA, or CIMA qualification is preferred.
- Three years of BOM handling and three years of UAE production planning are listed as preferred experience.
Compensation and benefits
- Pay is up to AED 10,000 per month.
- Benefits include medical insurance and career growth opportunities.
Workplace
- Work location is in person in Dubai, UAE.
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