Overview
Role Purpose : To manage and maintain a suitable sales system using various tools to accurately report information, to help manage, measure, maintain and monitor performance in various key performance areas with the view of improving profitability.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications :
- Minimum of a National Diploma in Accounting / Management Accounting
- 5 years management accounting experience (articled or otherwise)
- B Com (Accounting) / (Management Accounting). CA / CIMA advantageous but not requirement
- 2-5 years' in Commercial function / Costing experience
- SAP experience preferential
- Advanced Excel experience preferred – cube reports, pivot table analysis, graphs (mainly waterfalls and bar)
Key Responsibilities
Actualisation
Monthly and quarterly completion of actualisation process as per detailed timetable attached :Production, material prices, output & manload, KPI’s, GL, Manload allocations, CCC recovery, GL vs MACS recon, one pager, variance analysis, per SKU comparison between months and quarters.Presentation to Commercial team.Production, material prices, output & manload, KPI’s, GL, Manload allocations, CCC recovery, GL vs MACS recon, one pager, variance analysis, per SKU comparison between months and quarters.Presentation to Commercial team.Profitability Analysis
Monthly and quarterly review of product profitability per SKU, per production line or process, per customer grouping / product category in order to deliver insight in regional EBIT reviews and support business decision. Detailed investigations into inter regional variances in order to drive behaviour to lowest cost producer in order to maximise profitability.GAP
Attend daily planning & shift handover meetings in order to stay on top of processing issues.Upload weekly production in MACS.Update KPI’s (Farm condemns and DOA’s) weekly in MACS.Generate GAP report weekly on Tuesdays.Distribute GAP report with interpretation to Commercial managers.Monitor the unreconciled variance on the GAP report – the theoretical calculation should have zero unreconciled variance. Any variance in this line, indicates incorrect BOM’s and should be investigated.No changes to assembly BOM’s, packaging and ingredients & meat content without signature of QA & Processing. KPI’s for farm and DOA’s could be updated weekly without signoff as divisor used for GAP calc is after deducting these KPI’s.Comparing of actual retention to standard on a weekly basis, per brine type / ingredient component. Actual numbers on GAP report, should reflect the actual %’s measured by QA and not the theoretical % as per MACS. Trim imbalance should be investigated and resolved, signed off by QA and processing should any of the findings result in a change of BOM’s.Audit file to be kept for any changes in BOM’s for audit purposes – signed copies.Integral part of processing meetings in order to get an understanding of efficienciesPackaging and Ingredients
Update monthly production, consumption & prices in MACS.Update quarterly avg prices in MACS.Compile P&I report as per timetable ensuring there are no components on the report without a price.P&I report to be presented to Commercial Manager as per timetable, including identification of problem areas and action plan.Monthly P&I meeting with processing as per timetable.Monthly follow up on progress based on action list identified in processing meeting.Monthly communication to Commercial Managers on status of action list, including responsible persons.Report on wastage reduction initiative highlighting to the Commercial Managers the price, volume and absolute wastage variances for follow up with the sourcing, processing & quality teams. Highlight top 80% value as well as quantity variance in monthly meetings with processing.Report price variances to procurement on monthly basis and follow up.Support National packaging & ingredient reporting & waste standardisation initiatives.Making sure actual waste recordings are done every day.Making sure the weekly report is submitted.Highlight any possible issues in daily KPI meetings.Highlight waste / price variances in P&I meetings.Costings
Costings for new Product Developments for WorcesterCompletion of NPD costings & spec amendments via workflow within 3 working days of receipt of the request on workflow.NPD
New Product Developments for Worcester. Involvement with NPD team when trials are done, in order to fully understand the process, material requirement, labour requirement etc.Integral part of NPD trials in order to have a clear understanding from a costing perspectiveAudits
On yearly cycle, audit all BOM’s in WorcesterMeat, packaging and ingredients – usage against specCarton mass – actual against spec, investigate fixed mass gain / lossOn yearly cycleCut loss per lineSpin chiller pickup & drip loss to cutline.Get signoff from processing, QA and commercial on required BOM changes.Feed required BOM changes for discussion with R&D.Cut & trim differences on deboning specific, understanding which SKU’s causes trimmings and which SKU’s consumetrimmings.Audit linkage on routings for Worcester – products per line as well as standard output per hour.Controls
Implement traceability in Worcester for KFC.Maintain KFC traceability reporting, reporting anomalies on daily basis to Commercial Managers.Implement & maintain the recording of actual waste per line.Report back on a weekly basis on weekly actual waste recordingGeneral
Ad hoc functions as required by Commercial Manager (National Costing) from time to time.Rustenburg
Published Date : 25 September 2025
Closing Date : 09 October 2025
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