Cost & Grower Accountant - Kenya at Bayer East Africa

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 accurately prepared
• Process and prepares accurate operational financial information for grower clients within pre-determined 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
• 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 and 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, Aging analysis, and new grower application for Kenya
• 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 and 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:

• All East and West Africa PS functions, Site Managers, Supply chain, planning and quality
• Finance and Controlling
• Procurement and Safety 

Experience, Skills, and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or related business field
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA-K) or ACCA is an added advantage
• 5 years of experience
• Experience in the agriculture, manufacturing or seed industry is an added advantage
• Experience in cost accounting
• Experience in Inventory management
• Working experience of SAP, a plus