Cost & Grower Accountant - Kenya at Bayer East Africa

1 month ago


Nairobi, Kenya Bayer East Africa Full time

Bayer is a Life Science company with a more than 150-year history and core competencies in the areas of health care and agriculture. With our innovative products, we are contributing to finding solutions to some of the major challenges of our time.

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



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