Costing Manager - Cape Town
Salary Negotiable
Cape Town, Western Cape
Cape Town,
Western Cape
more than 14 days ago
19-02-2018 1:52:57 PM
16-04-2018 1:52:57 PM
Submerge yourself into an exciting and fast-paced environment of design, manufacturing and sourcing. Liaise on all levels in the business, bringing with you sharp and meticulous attention to detail and the ability to work unsupervised and as well as in a team. Do not delay on this phenomenal opportunity to become part of an operation that supplies retail and promotional products to clients worldwide.
Qualification:
BTech or BCom in Cost and Management Accounting
Skills & Experience:
Minimum of 2 years working in an Import / Export environment
2-4 years working in manufacturing
Knowledge of AccPac
Checking accuracy of Bill of Materials
Good communications skills, written and spoken
Exceptional Excel skills – intermediate to advanced
Demonstrable management skills and mentoring of staff
Thorough understanding of duty structures, imported products, freight (sea and airfreight) – volumetric compared to actual mass
Ability to understand templates, improving and updating templates with more relevant and current data
Job Description:
Reporting to the Product Director, you will be responsible for one direct report.
You will need to have a solid understanding of foreign exchange and forward cover contracts, as well as a thorough understanding in manufacturing costing models including overhead absorption, machine costs and capacity constraints.
Maintaining data on costing templates to ensure accurate and up to date costings.
General understanding of market related prices and mark up policies to be applied across different category customers and volume business.
Performing price benchmarking.
Ensuring accuracy of landed prices on AccPac.
Analysing costing accuracy after sale and reporting thereof.