Cost & Grower Accountant – Zambia

Role purpose

• Provide accurate financial analysis and ensure that accurate, reliable, and detailed records of costing are maintained.
• Ensure strict internal control & compliance at all the sites.
• Collaborate with Product Supply Finance team members to better deliver on our key KPIs and goals.

Continue to build safety culture.

Key responsibilities and tasks

• Ensures financial information for our grower clients is timely and accurate prepared
• Processes and prepares accurate operational financial information for grower clients within predetermined deadlines
• Management of Grower Accounting including handling of all A/P communications with vendors/Growers.
• Register all new contracts in SAP, process order creation, Purchase order and batch creation
• Monitoring of signed contract and legal documents and upload on share point: These are Contract, addendums, Vat authorization and Red flag assessments
• Invoicing of License fee: Comparing parental documents received from WH with SAP issue, Collecting GPS ha’s from field managers add on PO and capturing invoices
• Responsible for Payments for Corn business, all contractors linked to process order, trial production payments,
• Growers seed delivery tracking and confirmations in SAP before payments are made
• Reviews Grower Raw Seed receipts within the month and ensure that all are recorded in SAP
• Grower Payment tracking and Cashflow forecasting
• Responsible for Grower accruals, Age analysis and new grower application for Africa
• Oversee and contribute to the preparation of all inventories related information for financial statements (P&Ls, Balance Sheets, Statement of Cash Flows, ROI) and all other reports required by management
• Support Plant Controller on daily, monthly costing activities & analysis
• Share recommendations to seize opportunities or overcome challenges
• Interact and support key business decisions
• Discuss, prepare & execute succession planning and individual development plans

Key Working Relations:

• Direct reports of Plant Controller – Zambia
• All Zambia PS functions, Site Managers, Supply chain, planning and quality
• Finance and Controlling
• Procurement and Safety

Experience, Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelors’ degree in Accounting, Certified Accountant and member of Zambia Professional Accounting body – ZICA
• At least 4 years’ experience in Costing
• Demonstrated experience in product costing and scenario analysis
• Knowledge of product supply processes and related systems
• Dedication, hard work and willing to stretch and achieve more
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to work effectively in a cross functional/cultural team based and matrix environment.
• Fluent in English
• // Agriculture / FMCG / Manufacturing industry experience (advantageous but not a requirement)