AO7 Management/Cost Accountant

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AO7 Senior Management/Cost Accountant

• ASAP start, 3 month contract, with possible extension
• Circa $62 - $73 P/H + super
• Brisbane CBD location
  
  

This role sits across a large Government Department, providing a top-level consolidated management/cost reports, supporting the Director General and an executive level management team.
This role sits in a newly consolidated directorate comprising approximately of 130 officers including finance and accounting professionals, along with financial operations and support officers.

Summary of the Management/Cost Accountant:

• Run the monthly cost forecasts and ensure all targets are met within the stipulated time
• Provide financial analysis including monitoring and investigation of financial performance against budget for BAS and its business units in conjunction with and support to the Business Managers in particular the drivers of the work order management processes and the impact on profit recognition and financial performance.
• Ensure that there is accurate recording of expenditure in the appropriate journals and ledgers
• Provide assistance to the organization in preparing budget process by encouraging the budget holders to submit budgets at the expected time
• Apportion costs between manifold units of production and management
• Ensure the arrangement of cost of production to material costs, wages, and overhead costs
• Prepare estimates of costs for unique products in order to establish prices of products and to forecast production
• Consolidate cost of manufacturing for payroll and distribution of inventory accounts
• Contribute to discussions and reviews conducted during yearly audit meetings
• Formulate goals and assessments annually, in a timely manner
• Prepare, devise, and regulate procedures for establishing unit cost of services and products
• Analyse costs of materials and other supplies and create cost-benefit analyses for changing vendors
• Assist with the development of systems, processes and tools for the management accounting function including the profit recognition on work in progress
• Bringing about suggestions in a bid to ameliorate accounting methods and processes

Skills required for the role:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or related field required
• Commercial Experience in cost and management accounting
• Ability to work across a broad range of suppliers and large
• Outstanding skills in the use of Excel, Power Point and Microsoft Word
• Ability to communicate effectively and clearly, especially with non-accounting professionals
• Effective leadership and motivational traits in supporting the accounting unit
• A sound familiarity with the systems and policies of payroll and service administration
• Ability to apply dynamism and logical judgment to diverse challenging situations
• Ability to respond with perceptiveness under variable circumstances
• Proficiency in using contemporary programmed system of management
• Ability to find resolution to complicated accounting problems and assist other accounting staff in harmonizing finance related issues.
• Experience in a manufacturing or facility sector is desired

To apply, please attach a WORD copy of your resume via the link. If you have the relevant experience in previous role, and feel that you meet the above requirements, please contact Helen Chard directly via email on [email protected]

Please note, due to large volume of applications, only candidates who are shortlisted for this role will be contacted in the interim.