Open Vacancies at Lactalis South Africa

Job Description
Join Lactalis at our Bonnievale Plant in the Admin department with the main responsibilities to give accurate reporting of production/management accounting information with a strong focus on costing. Analyzing and reporting the daily, monthly results will be important in order to support and development of the Business Unit.  Successful candidates need to have at least 3 years' relevant experience within FMCG environment.  Must adherence to all Safety & Health policies, procedures and legislation.  Be fluent in English and be computer literate with sound knowledge in excel.

Required Skills

• Formal Accounting Qualification or equivalent
• Must have 3 years financial experiences working in a FMCG environment
• Develop partnership roles with Plant Manager/ Production Managers/Controllers/ Financial Manager
• To have presentation skills
• Must be a self-motivator with good planning, organising and admin skills
• Able to work independently and must have strong interpersonal skills and analytical skills
• Must be accurate and pay attention to detail
• Must be a good communicator
• Computer literate in MS Office (Excel advanced skills)
• Willing to work long hours, shifts, overtime, weekends and public holidays.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Analysing daily, monthly and yearly results of production
• Monthly reporting and annual budgeting
• Compiling and providing explanations on weekly KPI Reports, understanding how departments are tracking on KPI’s
• Training of Staff on inventory system and reports
• Assisting with GMP reports and material loss tracking
• Driving continuous improvement and accuracy of information
• Focus on accurate routings and costing of products within BPCS, updating BOM’s
• Support Production Managers by providing information and assisting production clerks with any capturing/system problems
• Ad-hoc financial & reporting tasks
• Ensure that effective internal control procedures are in place on all financial functions or cycles (i.e. stock, assets and other)
• Assist in supplying accurate information to optimise recipes
• Improvement and actions plans to be implemented
• Compile the yearly budget as well as the LSA Forecast when necessary.
• Assist the production manager by engaging with the department so that they understand targets
• Analyse production results on a continuous basis with the aim to meet or better the goals on quality, quantity, yield and grading.
• Ensure that set departmental goals and KPI’s are known to your team through daily and monthly meetings.