Description:
To ensure accurate, timely, and insightful financial reporting through effective cost center management, robust accrual and provision processes, and proactive business partnership. Cowbell Milk is hiring a Supervisor – Budgetary Control and OPEX Analyst. The role supports informed decision-making by providing detailed OPEX analysis, enforcing financial controls, and driving cost-saving initiatives across the organization.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Coordination of cost center review process:
- Agree cost center review calendar with budget holders
- Generate monthly pre-close reports and analysis
- Conduct monthly cost center reviews for all cost centers, providing adequate documentation.
- Conduct detailed analysis of all OPEX accounts
- Investigate and follow-up with responsible parties to resolve erroneous postings and raising necessary journals to correct them. Cowbell Milk is hiring: Supervisor – Budgetary Control and OPEX Analyst to handle such tasks efficiently.
- Ensure adequacy and completeness of all entries in the accounts with correct classification to location and cost center.
- Report significant omissions in the account to management.
- Ensure that all necessary depreciations, amortizations, and accruals are accurately captured in the account for each period
- Investigate and report OPEX variances
- Run post-close reports and extended trial balance for management accounts.
- Develop cost-saving initiatives for presentation to management, with subsequent implementation. For this reason, Cowbell Milk is hiring: Supervisor – Budgetary Control and OPEX Analyst.
Ownership and reconciliation of all accruals and provision:
- Consolidate all accrual and provision schedules
- Validate all system-generated accruals
- Maintain and update accrual and provisioning model
- Reconcile provisioning model with system balances and management accounts. This role, Cowbell Milk is hiring: Supervisor – Budgetary Control and OPEX Analyst, requires strong reconciliation skills.
Business Partnership
- Monthly OPEX flash
- Monthly detailed cost analysis by account
- Accrual and provision model
- Monthly extended trial balance
- Ad-hoc analysis. Hence, Cowbell Milk is hiring: Supervisor – Budgetary Control and OPEX Analyst.
Qualifications and Requirements:
- Minimum 3 years’ experience on a similar role, thus Cowbell Milk is hiring: Supervisor – Budgetary Control and OPEX Analyst.
- B.SC Accounting
- ACA or ACCA will be an added advantage
KNOWLEDGE
- MS Office Suite
- Advanced Excel user
- Business Intelligence (Additional advantage)
- Relevant IFRS standards
KEY COMPETENCIES & SKILL REQUIREMENTS
- Adherence to Professional ethics, which is a key reason why Cowbell Milk is hiring: Supervisor – Budgetary Control and OPEX Analyst.
- Adherence to Management policies/procedures
- Timely preparation and rendition of required reports
- Self-driven
- Team player
- Strong interpersonal skill