Labour Cost Manager

• Interact with Operations, Sales and Human Resources departments to plan for future capacity requirements;
• Streamline business processes between various departments to facilitate the production of coherent management information relating to direct labour;
• Review and analyse direct costs, with specific focus on direct labour cost by applying analysis and critical thinking to identify cost savings opportunities;
• Provide cost information to assist management with the calculation of costs for tenders and quotes.

• Strategic planning of headcount requirement: interact with Operations, Sales and Human Resources departments to identify future capacity requirements
• Analysing actual headcount in relation to required headcount and deriving action plans for headcount management
• Specifically where surplus of shortages in manpower has been identified, communicate to Human Resources to enable them to start retrenchment or recruitment processes when necessary

• Implementation of process improvements for leave and reserve management and disciplinary actions
• Interacting with Human Resources to enable them to take the necessary action relating to leave and disciplinary actions
• Streamlining of business processes between Sales Operations and Human Resources specifically relating to job grades and job titles.

• Management of overtime cost and deriving plans to minimise and limit overtime expenses to operational minimums
• Calculating the optimal wage cost for the business
• Performing a monthly wage cost analysis to identify reasons for variances between optimal and actual cost
• Distributing wage cost analysis to Operations, Sales, Finance and Human Resources
• Deriving action plans for wage cost management
• Communicating plans to various stakeholders and tracking the implementation of these plans and actions
• Updating ‘live’ wage models to always be able to compare optimal wages with budget & actual
• Scheduling of leave for direct labour force in accordance with available leave balances

• Maintaining and providing cost information to the Sales and Commercial departments for use in bids and quotes

• Providing cost information to the sales teams for PI calculations
• Assisting with calculation of optimal price increases (PIs)

• Maintenance and distribution of the master operational contract data

• Generating financial packs and analytical reports relating to direct labour information only

• Responsible for the production of the monthly reconciliation of revenue, operations (Nimbus) and payroll (triangle balancing) to meet GFC standards

• Compare actual results to budget / forecast for direct labour costs and identify reasons for variances
• Provide budget input for direct labour costs

• Assistance with bid costing & mobilization cost tracking
• Assistance with business plans and models

• Minimum B. Com degree in Finance / Cost Accounting / Management Accounting
• 2 to 5 years financial management and/or cost accounting experience would be deemed suitable for the level of the position

• Knowledge of Financial principles and practices
• Knowledge of financial controls and audit standards
• Deep understanding of accounting and ERP systems
• Knowledge of how to perform reconciliations
• Knowledge and/or understanding of different costing principles
• Working knowledge around direct labour management preferred

• MS Office Computer skills (Excel Advanced)
• Analytical skills
• Working with complexity and large volumes of data
• Planning and Coordination
• Managing conflict
• Delivering efficiency
• Delivering performance
• Managing professionally
• Time management

• Awareness of the market environment
• Acting professionally
• Driving change
• Leading people
• Customer thinking
• Collaborating and coo-operating
• Working across functions

People Dimension