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Commercial Finance Graduate Kerry

KwaZulu NatalSouth Africa
8 months0 Applicants
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job description - Commercial Finance Graduate

  • The Commercial Finance Graduate will work closely with Commercial team to develop and implement Pricing Strategies for the SA business across market/technology portfolio that sustain and develop the business growth model.

The position will be based in Hillcrest, KZN. 

Key Responsibilities:

  • Margin Control: Monthly review of cost and pricing movements (VPC) and lead continuous improvement plan in areas that require redress
  • Risk Management: Work in collaboration with procurement and operations teams in understanding movement of key cost metrics. Create and deliver mitigation and recovery plans to maintain business profitability
  • Deliver high quality and timely output of pricing support to sales organization with the market pricing teams
  • Identify Opportunity & Risk for business growth and proposals and solutions to maximize or mitigate where necessary
  • Provide commercial partnering through using insights on sales trends, future forecasting and external market data to improve and drive business growth at market level
  • Support business growth through analysis and appraisal of new methods for growth, capital investment, and new market development 
  • Delivery on annual pricing renewal process
  • Responsible & accountable for costing and pricing of new product opportunities ensuring alignment to business margin expectations
  • Ensuring accurate and timely response to pricing requests, to ensure that the customer receives information quickly
  • Assist Commercial team in order to support, develop and maintain catalogue Price List
  • AR and AP liaison to enable working capital management

Qualifications, Experience and Skills:

  • Bachelor of Commerce Degree in Accountancy / Finance with 1-2 years’ work experience, ideally in a manufacturing environment - Fresh Graduates are also encouraged to apply
  • Studying towards CIMA qualification will be advantageous
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Excel is required; familiarity with data query/data management tools will be extremely helpful (Microsoft Word, Power Point, Access, SQL, Business Objects)
  • Knowledge of ERP, ideally SAP and SAP BW reporting, and related data analysis tools are an added advantage
  • Excellent communication skills, high attention to detail and the ability to work in a dynamic environment and meet tight deadlines

Competencies:

  • Proactive and disciplined 
  • Problem Solving - enquiring mind, lateral thinking
  • High level of accountability
  • Analytical and problem solving in a fast-paced environment 
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team 
  • Ability to prioritize under tight deadlines 
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