Senior Accountant – Costing & Business Finance

Job description 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.

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.

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.