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Cost Accountant (mining experience)

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CareerMine Job Id: 747755 Job Summary
Title: Cost Accountant (mining experience) Employer Job Id: -------
Location: Northern Cape Posted Date: May 16, 2012
Employer: Mercury Rising Consulting Services Apply By: July 17, 2012

Cost Accountant (mining experience)

To be accountable for the on-going analysis of process constraints, target costing projects, margin analysis, and tracing costs back to underlying activities. Responsibilities will include constructing and monitoring those cost-effective data accumulation systems needed to provide an appropriate level of costing information to management.
  • Construct data accumulation systems for a cost accounting system.
  • Create and review the controls needed for data accumulation and reporting systems.
  • Coordinate physical inventory counts and cycle counts.
  • Investigate cycle counting variances and resolve issues.
  • Update standard costs in the bill of materials.
  • Review standard and actual costs for inaccuracies.
  • Validate the cost of goods sold as part of the month-end close.
  • Accumulate and apply overhead costs as required by generally accepted accounting principles.
  • Work with the materials review board to locate and dispose of obsolete inventory
  • Conduct ongoing process constraint analyses.
  • Report on breakeven points by product, business units/functional departments, cost centres and mining operations.
  • Report on margins by product and division.
  • Report on periodic variances and their causes, focusing in particular on spending variances.
  • Analyse capital budgeting requests.
  • Perform cost accumulation tasks as a member of the target costing group.
Qualification : 
Diploma in cost accounting or B. Degree in accounting or equivalent qualification in accounting.  THIS IS ESSENTIAL

Must have min of 3 years as senior cost accountant at a mine!!

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16 - 20 years experience in South Africa
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$23K

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$26K

75 %ile

$42K
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