Senior Accountant – Costing & Business Finance

Job Summary Salasa is seeking a commercially minded Senior Accountant – Costing & Business Finance to work closely with warehouse Operations and Finance. The role will establish accurate visibility over warehouse productivity, resource consumption, operational cost drivers and unit economics. This is a hands-on business finance role based close to operations. The successful candidate will translate warehouse activity into reliable financial information and actionable insights for pricing, productivity, capacity and profitability decisions.Key Responsibilities · Develop and maintain detailed costing models across inbound receiving, QC, put-away, storage, picking, packing, packaging, manpower, utilities, technology, last-mile delivery, rent, depreciation and other warehouse costs. · Calculate and monitor cost per inbound item, stored item/bin, outbound item, order, shipment, customer and warehouse activity. · Develop customer-level direct costs, cost-to-serve, resource consumption, contribution margin and capacity consumed. · Establish and maintain appropriate allocation methodologies for shared warehouse costs using relevant operational cost drivers. · Work closely with warehouse Operations to measure productivity, including items/orders per labor hour, manpower cost per item/order, packaging cost, bin utilization, throughput per sqm, courier cost per shipment and capacity utilization. · Reconcile headcount, attendance, productive hours, operational output and manpower cost; analyze permanent, outsourced and temporary labor, overtime, shifts and idle capacity. · Build warehouse utilization and capacity models and quantify the financial impact of underutilization, customer inventory profiles, throughput changes and manpower requirements. · Prepare weekly and monthly operational finance dashboards and variance analysis covering volume, pricing, productivity, manpower, packaging, courier, utilization and other key cost drivers. · Provide reliable costing analysis to support pricing, contract renewals, customer negotiations and operational improvement initiatives. · Continuously validate model assumptions against actual performance and improve data quality, controls and reporting automation.Key Performance Indicators · Warehouse costing and unit economics models · Customer cost-to-serve reporting · Cost allocation methodology · Warehouse utilization and capacity model · Manpower productivity model · Weekly operational finance dashboard · Monthly warehouse and customer profitability reporting · Budget vs actual and productivity variance analysisEducation and Experience · Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Management Accounting or a related discipline. · Professional qualification such as CMA, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent is preferred. · Approximately 6-8 years of relevant experience in cost accounting, management accountingSkills and Competencies · Experience in warehousing, logistics, fulfillment, manufacturing, FMCG, distribution or another high-volume operational environment is strongly preferred. · Strong understanding of activity-based costing, cost allocation, unit economics and operational productivity measurement. · Advanced Microsoft Excel and strong financial modelling skills; Power BI or similar visualization experience is preferred. · Experience with ERP/WMS systems and large operational datasets is advantageous. - · Strong business partnering skills and willingness to work closely with warehouse teams and understand processes on the warehouse floor.

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