Plant Controller(Cement Company )-Job vacancies in Uganda

Job Title: Plant Controller
Organisation: Cement Company
Job Location Kasese, Uganda
Reports to: Plant Manager

Job Summary:
The Plant Controller is responsible for ensuring the availability of good quality information to enable decision making, challenges the plant production efficiency and plant expenditure to ensure continuous improvement and managing of risks to provide assurance of a sound control environment.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:
    Coordinating and spearheading a tailored approach to the Group’s performance management cycle and ensuring that the group guidelines are consistently applied. This entails review of the budget and monthly re-forecasts to ensure that the business objectives are reflected in the same. Challenges and ensures clear action plans are in place to ensure validity of the planning processes to deliver the budget.
    Delivers timely and accurate reports required by the Plant and Business Unit Management that are compliant with financial accounting procedures and legal requirements. These reports include cost of production reports, fixed cost reports etc.
    Performing detailed analysis of plant performance reports to ensure consistency of information with other reports e.g. monthly production reports, advance downtime analysis program (ADAP) reports, costing tool report etc, explaining variences of key performance indicators compared to the plan and advising management on corrective actions and enable decision making.
    Monitoring the robustness of the plant control environment and driving any necessary corrective actions to ensure compliance with group policies and procedures. This involves close liaison with the Internal Audit section on risk assessments and audit recommendations.
    Contributing to the definition and application of the Group “common language” and ensures its implementation within the plant to ensure compliance to group and international accounting standards.
    Reviewing and challenging plant investment project requests to ensure financial viability, consistency with the Business Unit strategy and plant improvement plans and compliance with group rules. This also involves the design, operational effectiveness and documentation of the capital expenditure management business process.
    Ensuring staff development and career planning for the staff under Plant Control. This is done through performance appraisals, individual development plans and training.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
    The applicant should possess a bachelor’s degree preferably in a business-related or statistics or engineering discipline.
    Additional professional qualification with an acknowledged accounting body siuch as ACCA, CPA or equivalent.
    At least six (6) years’ experience, three (3) of which should be in a manufacturing setting at a managerial level, or a manager in an audit environment.
    Good computer literacy skills i.e. exposure to an ERP environment, advanced reporting tools and very good knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.
    Good tax, treasury and asset management skills.
    Excellent project and change management skills.

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