Management Accountant - Durban at RCL Foods

Job Description    

• RCL FOODS is seeking a versatile Management Accountant to join the team! RCL FOODS needs a strong decision maker with innovative thinking to join our forces.

The main purpose of the role is to:

• Provide Commercial Front End support to the customer team to enable strategic decision-making regarding profitability, product feasibility and innovation.
• To deliver enhanced customer and product profitability information designed to unlock margin opportunities and assist in focused strategic decision-making.
• This role will also provide direct support to the Commercial Manager by working on tactical and strategic projects.

The position will be based at RCL FOODS offices in Durban or Johannesburg

Minimum Requirements    

• Preferably a CIMA or CA(SA)
• Preferably 3 to 5 years management accounting experience, incorporating commercial costing and some exposure to processing or manufacturing environments
• Power BI reporting

Duties & Responsibilities

Profitability Analysis & Reporting

• Design dashboards which deliver consolidated insight into performance of customer profitability and which focus to the delivery of the Strategic yearly agenda as set out for the Function
• Drive enhanced customer and product profitability information designed to unlock margin opportunities and recommend ways to optimise customer and product profitability.
• Support the customer and marketing teams in the use of system tools regarding costing and profitability
• Monthly feedback and analysis on the financial performance of the Product and Customers performance
• Identify opportunities for value added reporting to improve the quality and content of reporting and message management.
• Business partner with the OU commercial team to understand cost allocations on profitability reporting tool

Budgeting and Forecasting

• Assist and review results of the budgeting and S&OP forecasting process.
• Provide input on forecasted profitability enabling mix optimisation for the S&OP process.

Customer Pricing Support

• Calculate and provide prompt and accurate pricing information for price reviews.
• Compile robust cost support and presentations to assist the customer team to having a meaningful engagement with customers
• Where required, attend the pricing reviews to settle pricing with customers
• Assist in the compilation of individual customer price lists to be used by customer team as tools in pricing discussions and to process deals.
• Provide continuous pricing support regarding profitability to ensure that products are sold at targeted margins.
• Ensure product and channel profitability objectives are achieved

Product Costing

• Provide indicative “what-if” costings and impact on profitability for:
  • New product development
  • Specification changes
  • Other proposed R&D approved amendments.
• Work closely with Business Unit commercial teams to facilitate an understanding of and ensure that the most current costs (both production and distribution) are used when reporting on profitability.
• Conduct product reviews and report to the Business Units on:
  • Product performance and history
  • Market positioning
  • Growth strategy and opportunity margin improvement opportunities.

New Product Development

• Attend NPD / MDT meetings on new products and provide commercial insight and capacity to the marketing function.
• Ensure products are costed accurately and profitability remains the high priority.

Net Revenue Management and Commercial Insight/Technical Expertise

• Provide calculations, detailed analysis and associated recommendations emanating from all queries that arise because of changes in business operations, the economic climate or potentially might offer more profitable solutions.
• Provide expertise in management team meetings to internal clients and colleagues and recommend solutions based on insights and findings.
• Perform quadrant analysis to review product performance, and propose optimized promotion mix and SKU rationalization.
• Work with customer team to perform ROI on promotional activities to unlock key insights.