FG Planner (Logistics)

Job Description

Financial & Cost Analyst

• Gather and organize financial data from all accounting departments.
• Preparing financial reports
• Compile and analyze financial reports and find discrepancies that require senior management's attention. 
• Forecast models for revenue changes and expenditure increases/decreases.
• Monitoring internal controls.
• Participating in budgeting processes - by working closely with KGT Financial Controller
• Streamlining accounting functions and operations.
• Coordinating audit processes
• Collecting data to determine costs of business activity such as raw material purchases, inventory and labor.
• Analyzing data collected and recording results
• Analyzing changes in product design, raw materials, manufacturing methods or services provided, to determine effects on cost
• Analyzing actual manufacturing costs and preparing periodic reports comparing standard costs to actual production costs
• Recording cost information for use in controlling expenditures
• Analyzing audits of costs and preparing reports
• Making estimates of new and proposed product costs
• Maintaining Cost Accounting System
• Conducts physical inventories and monitors cycle count program

Production Planner

• Liaises with sales division to determine customer requirements
• Develops a production schedule detailing all tasks and when they should be completed by to meet predicted completion date
• Monitors production and raw material costs
• Prepares reports about production processes for upper management and suggests ways to improve efficiency
• Forecasts the future need of certain items in order to increase or decrease production levels accordingly
• Tracks the progress of goods as they are being manufactured to ensure they remain on schedule
• Updates interested parties as to how production is progressing
• Prepares reports detailing anticipated production goals
• Revises schedules as needed to accomplish certain benchmarks in the manufacturing process
• Perform cycle time analysis to determine how long critical process take place.

Qualifications

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in a similar role.
• Bachelors Degree in Business Administration, Finance or Accounting
• Must have excellent analytical skills; sound understanding of accounting principles.
• Computer Literate – Strong Excel skills and the ability to use G suite and Word
• Ability to accurately prepare daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reports
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Compliance oriented.
• Has good time management skills
• Is able to accurately forecast future needs
• Has good problem-solving skills, and can easily revise a plan when needed
• Takes responsibility for mistakes, and holds others accountable for theirs as well
• Is flexible and able to react to changes as needed
• Possess Good Written and Oral Communication Skills in English
• Strong Mathematics Skills, especially in the Area of Statistics, Understanding of Business Operations
• Attention to Detail, Speed, Accuracy,