SUMMARY:
Purpose of the role:
This role plays a key role in managing product costing, pricing, and margin analysis to support commercial and operational decision-making. This role ensures that accurate cost and pricing data is maintained, supports budgeting, drives collaboration across departments, and provides critical financial insights to improve profitability and operational efficiency.
POSITION INFO:
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain and manage costing files to support customer pricing decisions.
- Liaise with procurement to track and incorporate cost updates for timely pricing adjustments.
- Lead the S&OP (Sales & Operations Planning) meetings with procurement and other cross-functional teams.
- Work closely with production to understand material usage and ensure accurate costing.
- Develop a working knowledge of all production processes to improve costing accuracy.
- Assist in the preparation of annual and rolling budgets.
- Support financial managers by checking supplier and service provider payment documentation.
- Asset control and verification
- Capex control process administration
- Develop and maintain relevant reports to support sales and margin management.
- Coordinate and administer stock takes when required.
- Assist with ad-hoc finance tasks as requested by financial managers.
- Prepare procurement cost information to support price negotiations during pricing review windows.
- Maintain accurate records of all client pricing history and changes.
- Perform ad-hoc variance analysis across cost, margin, and operational performance.
- Review, understand, and verify standard cost information in the ERP system (Syspro preferred).
Key Skills and Competencies
- Strong understanding of product costing and margin management.
- Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams including procurement and production.
- Effective communicator and team leader, especially in cross-functional meetings.
- Strong attention to detail, accuracy, and analytical capability.
- Intermediate to advanced Excel skills
- Experience with ERP systems (Syspro preferred).
- Strong organisational and reporting skills.
- Commercially minded with good business acumen.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure.
Qualifications and Experience
- BCom in Accounting / Finance or equivalent (required).
- CIMA qualified or actively working toward CIMA qualification (preferred and strongly advantageous).
- 3–5 years of relevant experience in management accounting, ideally in a manufacturing or FMCG environment.
Application Process:Interested candidates should submit the following documentation:
- CV
- Qualifications
- 2 x most recent payslips
Only candidates meeting the specified criteria will be considered
If you have not heard from us within
2 weeks of submitting your application, please consider your application
unsuccessful. We thank all applicants for their interest.
