Senior Accountant Costing & Business Finance📣 Job Ad

About the Role

Salasa is seeking a Senior Accountant – Costing & Business Finance to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role requires 5-10 years of experience and involves working closely with warehouse Operations and Finance to establish accurate visibility over warehouse productivity, resource consumption, operational cost drivers, and unit economics.

Role Context and Purpose

This is a hands-on business finance position based close to operations. The Senior Accountant will be responsible for translating warehouse activity into reliable financial information and actionable insights. This information will support critical decisions related to pricing, productivity, capacity, and profitability within the warehouse environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain detailed costing models covering 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 overall 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.
• Collaborate 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

Experience and Work Type

Candidates should possess 5-10 years of relevant experience. This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Application Information

The salary for this position will be disclosed during the interview process.