Johannesburg: Costing Analyst – FMCG / Alcohol / Luxury Brand sectors posted by Time Personnel
Posted on 2025-08-01 00:00:00
| Employer | Time Personnel |
|---|---|
| Category | Other Finance/Accounting |
| Location | Gauteng / Johannesburg |
Job Summary
- 5 years experience in business controlling and/or finance / costing analysis – LIQUOR / FMCG industry.
- Relevant degree qualification, English fluent, French is advantageous
- Strong financial planning and analysis skills.
- Experience in generating process documentation and reports.
- Good business understanding, interested in sales and marketing.
- Strong knowledge of Excel (macro, programming), PowerPoint, multi-dimensional tools (ESSBASE, EOS, Microsoft database type) are necessary.
- Excellent analytical, mathematical, and creative problem-solving skills
- Integrity and rigor are a must, as well as pro activity and team spirit.
- Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
- Logical and efficient, with keen attention to detail
- Highly self-motivated and directed
- Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks while under pressure
- Strong customer service orientation
- Able to exercise independent judgment and take action on it
- Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
- Comfort with ambiguous, ever-changing situations
DUTIES
BUSINESS ANALYSIS
- Prepare ACTUAL monthly reports – Revenue, Variance, Mid-Month, Month End forecasting.
- Coordinate business reporting (monthly shipments/depletions/stock tracking)
- Develop, maintain accurate & user-friendly performance tracking tools (Power BI and others)
- Aggregate reporting & insights to identify risks & opportunities vs forecast.
- Coordinate efficient information flow & coordinate customer risk queries
- Partner with FD in preparing Business Reviews and adhoc analysis.
STRATEGIC PLANNING
- Lead financial forecast processes
- Build LE/Budget/R&O forecasts for Regional Office
- Support Regional Team in a five year plan update and Brand Planning.
A&P + FUNDS TO THE TRADE
- Consolidate monthly reporting files to analyse Actual vs Forecast
- Coordinate the tracking to ensure efficient process across European marke
- Follow up Regional A&P budgets vs Actual, prepare monthly and end of year accruals
- Perform audit on invoices received (reality check) and keep record of justification.
- Manage Risk & opportunity to monitor FY landing estimate versus budget/
OVERHEAD COSTS
- Lead forecast processes for European regional office and SA market
- Build and consolidate monthly reporting files to analyse forecasts
- Lead monthly, quarterly and annual reporting providing monthly follow-up
- Prepare monthly & end of year accruals for Regional office and Company.
PRICING PROCESS
- Manage Price list update process to ensure efficiency and control, monitoring price impacts and gap versus budget/
- Lead price lists continuous improvement to drive consistency across Region
- Maintain prices accuracy in the central price list and in the Distributor platform database
REPORTING TOOLS
- Develop dynamic ways to visualize big data sets to empower Management for effective decision taking (with various tools such as Power BI etc.)
- Improve ways of working on existing internal reports to gain efficiency.
ANALYSIS & BUSINESS PARTNERING
- Support the team to create pertinent presentation for Senior Executive meetings
- Ad-hoc analysis of business results for different stakeholders
- Be a business partner of the new projects/key topics driven in Europe providing the team with new ideas, new technical solutions and concretize the analysis to achieve the business objective.
Salary: R negotiable dependent on experience
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