Job Description
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
The key accountabilities for this role include but are not restricted to:
- Price Variance reporting for the BU
- Price variance problem solving
- Price variance savings initiatives support
- Procurement VIC accruals processing and reversals management
- Monitor & track one offs
- Supplier recon facilitation. Confirming FX & commodity rates as well as reasonability for hidden FX & commodity exposure
- Weekly & Monthly review of PV reasonability and own directive on corrective actions
- Monthly price variance interrogation and commentary with CPM/CatMan
- Price reconciliation for COGNOS builds up for VIC price
- Finished good FX & excise population into CTRM
- Finished goods end to end management
- WAPT & Payables alignment support
- MAP report population
- Preclosing routines to ensure month end in line with expectation
CTRM: volume accuracy and Validation
- Manage forecast accuracy of consumption volume with planning.
- Maintaining & sense check correct conversion factors between material & commodity
- Manage accuracy of monthly actual quantities consumed into LE tool
- Manage accuracy of monthly actual commodity volume into CTRM
- Manage accuracy of forecast quantities consumed into LE tool
- Manage accuracy of forecast commodity volume into CTRM
FX exposure population & management for the BU
- Responsible for accuracy of FX exposure in FX currency and timing
- Responsible for FX review with treasury
Mark up: BU markup validation and accuracy
- Liaising with control & MUBEX on differences and matching
- Support in reconciliation on Mark up between what has been generated by ERP and what has been posted by Mubex
Annual
- Bottom-up budget load into ERP
- Bottom-up Budget support on accuracy interrogation and adherence to 1YP
- LE volumes, historic prices. UoM alignment in BU tool
- Bottom-up timeline management
- Bottom-up/top-down reconciliation for plug analysis and allocation and 1YP target accuracy
- Comm/NC split correct by plant by material
Key Attributes and Competencies:
- Knowledge of Financial Reporting
- Knowledge of general accounting and consolidation practices
- Project management, problem assessment and solving skills
- Working in an ERP environment
- Working in a process-oriented organization
- Computer skills (MS Office: Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
- Good knowledge of consolidation & reporting tools (Cognos, TM1, BI)
- Knowledge of ERP Systems SAP R/3 Module FI/CO, SAP BW
Minimum Requirements:
- Relevant 3-year university degree in i.e., accounting, business, economics, engineering or similar
- MBA / CIMA / CA (SA) would be advantageous
- 3+ years of experience in finance in a manufacturing environment
- Experience Product Costing