Job Description

Job Summary

Job Purpose:
To provide overview and analysis of COS and Gross Contributions Stats at BU level, as well as assist with Sales related projects and complete ad-hoc feasibility projects.

Reporting to:
Finance and Commercial Manager

Educational:

• Grade 12
• BCom / Diploma in Financial Accounting

Experiential:

• Minimum 2 to 3 years' experience in management accounting role.
• Automotive Industry and Manufacturing Environment experience.

Key Performance Areas / Associated Tasks

SHEQ:
SHE:

• Contribute to health, safety, and good housekeeping in the workplace.
• Applying safety, security, and housekeeping

Quality Management System:

• Comply with the requirements of the Legal and Insurance Quality Systems

Policies and Procedures:

• Comply with the Company Policies and Procedures

Finance:

Financial Control:

• Protect company assets (working capital & fixed assets)
• Detect and prevent fraud.
• Promote good Corporate Governance Customer and Suppliers:

Customer Relations:

• Liaise with internal customers.

Supplier Relations:

• Liaise with suppliers.

Financial Strategy:

• Participate in organisational strategy management from a financial management perspective General Financial:
• Provide Financial analysis and support to management and all operational areas of the business.
• Maintain and update accounting system (ERP: LX)
• Ensure compliance with internal control.

Cost Accounting:

• Prepare and review details product costing analysis for all new parts.
• Analysis all current parts and make recommendations for the financial recovery on distressed parts.
• Calculate and propose potential price increases.
• Review GP percentage of individual BOM's and identify distress parts.
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives.

Costing

• Provide indicative what-if costings and impact on profitability for: New Product Generation and Specification to existing products.
• Worked closely with technical team to ensure integrity of the control sheet.
• Worked closely with production and purchasing to facilitate an understanding of and ensure that most current costs (both production and distribution) are used when calculating the profitability.
• Effectively communicate and present findings as well as recommendations to the Finance & Commercial Manager, Business Development Manager, Technical Manager and the rest of the cross functional team.

Costing Analysis:

• Provide meaningful profitability information and recommend ways to optimise customer profitability and project profitability for new business.
• Recover margin in underperforming categories by highlighting commercial impact (margin enhancement vs volume opportunity) and assisted in strategic decision making.
• Support the Business Development Managers in the use of system tools regarding costing and profitability.
• Support Finance & Commercial Manager in considering product rationalisation, mix comparisons and other business improvement opportunities.
• Challenge product enhancement opportunities.
• Attend customer and commercial meetings to provide insight to ongoing projects and commercial items.

Reporting:

• Create a platform within quarterly profitability review to evaluate the success of project post launch review, providing insight and learnings which can be taken into future launches.
• Develop suitable standard of commercial reports that will provide insight, stimulate further discussion, and assist in decision making across RFQ patch.
• Worked closely with IT to automate reporting where possible.
• Weekly tracking of costings done to create visibility of projects in order to manage workload with projects and customer focus teams.

Effective teamwork, self-management, and management of staff:

• Take ownership and accountability for tasks and activities. Demonstrate effective self-management in terms of planning and prioritising, and self-development.
• Follow through to ensure that quality and productivity standards of work are consistently and accurately maintained.
• Inform relevant parties in the event of tasks or deadlines not met, the potential risks thereof and provide appropriate resolution.
• Support and drive the business core values.
• Manage colleagues and customer expectations and communicate appropriately.
• Demonstrate willingness to help others and go the extra mile to meet team targets and objectives.
• Participate and drive regular performance appraisals and ensure that own targets and goals are clear and achievable.
• Maintain a basic appreciation and awareness of employee relations climate and ensure corrective action is taken where required in line with relevant legislation and company policy.

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