Management Accountant & Commercial Manager
Time Personnel
- Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Matric, Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field
- Strong management accountant skills, with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in a senior accounting role for a manufacturing business, including prior experience in activity-based costing
- Excellent project management skills & experience managing complex projects
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and financial modelling
- Proven experience in tender management and preparation, demonstrating great attention to detail and accuracy in all tasks and deliverables
- Good practical business and financial decision-making skills
- Ability to multitask and prioritise tasks effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- IT proficiency in Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and PowerPoint
- Willingness to develop a deep understanding of our product offering
- Excellent organisational skills to meet goals and set priorities, including the ability to work under pressure and in new environments
- Ability to deal with operations across the globe in different languages with different cultures and time zones
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate cross-functionally and lead a small team
- Team Management: Lead and manage and provide guidance for a team of two to ensure objectives are met effectively.
- Tender Management: Demonstrate meticulous attention to detail in coordinating and completing global tenders for apparel retailers.
- Ensure the upkeep of essential input cost metrics across all production facilities.
- Validate adherence to Group frameworks for overhead cost allocation across all global operations.
- Update raw material costs, labour, and overhead recovery rates annually based on approved expense budgets and capacity plans for all production facilities.
- Quarterly review of performance against the recovery rates, based on actual quarter-end results, to evaluate the necessity for recovery rate adjustments.
- Oversee the preparation of quarterly cost driver schedules, encompassing both macro and local economic impacts, to be presented for:
- Incorporation into all bi-annual and annual contract price adjustments.
- Consideration by senior management in Group forecasting.
- Manage RFID and Variable Data programme roll-outs, ensuring successful implementation and timely delivery.
- Manage the development and deployment of new costing modules across the group.
- Ensure tender award pricing is adhered to in respective supply regions, with any deviations falling within specified mandates.
- Estimate Forward Exchange Contract requirements for RFID inlay purchases on a quarterly basis.