About the job

Package

Remuneration and benefits will be commensurate with the seniority of the role and in compliance with company remuneration policy and practice.

Main Purpose of Position:

The review and analysis of labour costs from actual operational trading and for prospective clients and calculating costing for tenders and national quotes.

Key Performance Areas:

Quotations & costings

• Gathering all necessary information regarding a costing
• Understanding the requirement and confirming with Ops that this is achievable
• Completing the necessary costing template
• Assisting with regional daily quotes for current customers
• Ad hoc sundry quotes
• Updating regional information database
• Calculate sundry ad hoc rates annually

Profitability’s

• Compiling monthly profitability’s per site
• Assisting with analysing and investigating any anomalies
• Distributing profitability’s to Ops
• Improvement action plan and the tracking thereof
• Comparing actual profitability with budgeted and optimal GM%
• Updating ‘live’ wage models to always be able to compare optimal wages with budget & actual

Price increases

• Assisting with PI calculations
• Comparing PI calculation with actual profitability
• Drafting final PI letter to be sent to customer
• Updating regional PI tracker
• Following up with Ops on outstanding PI’s

Commercial customer files

• Create, update and manage customer files with contracts, contract schedules, important correspondence, costings, quotations, etc.
• Update and maintain regional data bases
• Update contract schedules for FM approval

Assisting with month ends

• Overall assistance if necessary
• Uploading financial packs

Triangle balancing

• Detailed triangle balancing with financial accountant, AR & ER

Assist with budget and forecast process

• Compare budgeted/forecasted results to actual or expected results in order to identify inaccuracies.

Others

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

Competencies:

Knowledge

• Knowledge of Financial principles and practices
• Knowledge of financial controls and audit standards
• Knowledge of how to perform reconciliations
• Knowledge and/or understanding of different costing principles

Skills

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

Attributes

• Awareness of the market environment
• Acting professionally
• Driving change
• Leading people
• Customer thinking
• Collaborating and co-operating

Minimum qualification & expérience

• Minimum B. Com degree
• 2 to 5 Years management and/or cost accounting experience would be deemed suitable for the level of the position