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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