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 analysis

Education 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 accounting

Skills 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.