John Stevens Email & Phone Number

South Africa

Monthly SCE's (standard cost estimates/ inventory valuations); incl SOX prepMonthly MOH closing (accruals, journal prep, analytics)MOH ForecastingManufacturing inefficiencies/ usage/ wastage (incl SOX prep)Forecasting and Stock Levels reporting, working closely with Procurement department wrt to Minimum Order levels and Stock on hand levels per SKUs Stock Daily flash reports including critical stock regarding lead times to suppliers and minimum order Supplier Quantities regarding pricing given from suppliersSales weekly meeting attendance wrt to planning for SKU’s and forecasts.Risk stock management (prov for expiring/ expired stock)Daily/ weekly checks on price movements & certain material movement typesCSA monitoring and support to manufacturing sitesAOP COGS budget (commodities & MOH)Annual activity rates calculation and update on SAPAnnual PI submission to BDS (full P&L per SKU to NOBIT) - Act vs AOPPlant support wrt processes and controlsPlant support wrt SAP, master data, special projectsAssist sites with remediation of internal audit findingsPlant support wrt various manufacturing reportsCommercial support to marketing (costings on innovation, renovation, promotional activity)Attendance of various meetings (operational, supply chain, EBP, marketing projects)

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Material Price Variance Analysis Bills of MaterialsVariance Analysis Stock Take Procedures and AnalysisContract Price Maintenance All WIP related accounts via ERP System BOM Maintenance Labour and Ohead RecoveriesProduction Issues and Job work orders are ReconciledNew Product Development

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Prepare Management Information Packs Prepare and co-ordinate Budget Process with Supply change and other department headsPlanning in regards to Stock Holding – min and max sales per weekOut of Stock calculations and prevention of it and stocks daily and weekly cover.Cash flow analysis and seeing actual is on track with budget and monitoring it as a support service for different departments.Review costing of all stock items on a weekly and monthly basisInvestigate and report in Production variances Check open jobs daily and aged jobs Prepare Budgets and ForecastsAssist with Month End and Year end closure on Syspro ERP SystemSupport the Financial Manager to prepare financial information of management accounts and financial plans. Involved in the day to day management and cost accounting and provide management information, support and analysis to ensure effective decision making

Paarl South Africa

Cost Accountant for 5 Manufacturing Sites:Bills of Materials Maintenance of all SKU'sVariance Analysis and ReportingMonthly Stock Takes Cost Simulations Runs ( COS % changes / effects - What if Analysis )All Costing Packs per Units Analysis and processBudget Process and Forecast Planning with Procurement and other DepartmentsWeekly / monthly reporting and validation of yield, purchase price and manufacturing variancesMaintain the Capex process and responsible for Fixed Asset register within the ERP system for UnitsConducting required cost review and valuation of stockMonitor and control manufacturing expenses

Durbanville Cape Town

Costing of Abattoirs: Preparation of monthly Standard Cost Estimate and compiling variance lists and reasons for differences Settlement of Production Orders and reasons for differences Checking Production orders to actual BOM’s Monitor actual vs budgeted cost per cost center Monitor and changing of Activity Rates updates Preparing overhead absorption figures Monitor product routings and updating new product parameters Monitor product BOM’s and packaging costings Settlement of Assessment Cycles, and also checking of Over / Under RecoveriesFarms payments: Monitor / Update roll forward standards of Broiler Farms costings Assist Management Accountant with payment of farmsOperational Reporting: Preparation of monthly abattoir production efficiency reports. Various others Variance reports as requested by management Preparation of operational Income statements. Monthly Farm production and efficiency reportsAssets: Creating all new capital requests on SAP Responsible for all Asset movements on SAP Overseeing Annual Asset Verification Preparation of Yearly Capital Budgets with assistance from departments headsIT and General: IT Champion of site as well as Farms Assist Management accountant with any Ad Hoc tasks Assist with stock takes

Athlone Cape Town

Creating / Maintaining of BOM’s on Impact ERP system.Preparing of Management Accounts on a monthly basisPreparing purchase price variance for local purchases as well as importsHandling all monthly stock take preparationFollowing up on variances and summarizing all reasons for management on a daily basisAdding new BOM’s onto systemDaily variance of production lines giving to production managers and solving problem areasAssisting with Budgets in various departmentsWorking closely with Marketing / Sales Departments regarding all new product developmentAssisting Creditors department with manual capturing of creditors payments, as well as checking cheque payments to creditors before EFT release Assisting Financial Manager with any new Ad Hoc tasks

Athlone Cape Town

Daily reporting of production variancesCalculating of overall wastage for the factory Looking and implementing methods to minimize the wastage. Variance reporting on all the production lines, from raw milk to finished by-products such as yogurt & cottage cheeseSpotting stock variances and analysing them and implementation ways to stop variancesVariances analysis on all Packaging items such as labels; bottles; sheeting, cups and all other packaging items in the store also looking at actual spending VS Budget and keep monitoring these costsSetting up of controls in the production process to decrease wastage and increase productivityWorking closely with the stores & planning departments to minimize theft with proper controls and seeing that these controls are adhered to.

Epping Cape Town

Reporting on Material Usage VariancesInvestigating of Local/ Overseas Suppliers Purchase VariancesMaintaining the STD’s on the AS400 SystemUpdating new STD’s and calculation of new STD’sCalculating labour ratesReporting on Factory VariancesMaking Trends Analysis of Stock and Inventory Quality reports and Wastage analysisAssisting Cost Accountant with budgets and estimates

Btech Cost And Management Accounting, Cost Accounting

National Diploma Cost And Management Accounting, Cost Accounting