Cost Controller

Purpose of the role: To plan for costs, cost estimating, budget development and control, cost projecting, analysis, and reporting. The Cost Controller plays a key role in understanding whether projects will come in on budget and/or when the projects cost trajectory is going wrong.

DUTIES:
- Implement, administer, and maintain cost control systems and procedures to track costs and project budgets, commitments, expenditures, and forecasts
- Compute costs of all manufacturing, material, and labour expenses.
- Monitor costs against budgets and forecasts
- Assist in building companys cost saving program, annual budgets and forecasts, and performance
- Develop and implement an integrated cost and planning system
- Assist in setting prices for labour and material and determine inventory valuation
- Monitor all activities in planning and scheduling, cost control, accounting, and document control
- Calculating pricing and margins based on costs
- Meeting with various stakeholders to monitor spend against budgets and plans
- Reconciliation of data, costs, variances and reporting thereon
- Preparation of management accounts
- All Ad hoc requests from the CEO

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
- National Diploma in Cost and Management Accounting or an equivalent
- Minimum 4 years'' experience working in cost control
- Excellent computer skills, maths & knowledge of accounting.
- Proficiency in spreadsheets and ability to work on many projects with different deadlines
- Exceptionally well organized with an aptitude for data
- Able to generate budgets and reports
- Strong presentation skills, able to explain concepts concisely and accurately
- Able to develop strong, cooperative relationships with department heads
- Knowledge and experience in budgets and project costing