A large financial Service Company based in Sandton, seeks a Costing Analyst with:

Minimum requirements

• The Company Points of Presence Costing team is searching for a Costing Analyst who can hit the ground running.
• Key to success in this role is an individual with a passion for the numbers, Commerce background and enjoys doing detailed analysis of the business.
• Candidates with a CIMA background and intermediate SQL skills will have a head start.
• Although housed in Finance, the role spans the three disciplines of Finance, Operations and BI. As a part of the team you are an end to end owner of your costing model.
• This includes sourcing and searching for costing related operational data sets, modelling and merging it with financials in order to derive accurate unit costs using SQL.
• Results need to be packaged and visualised in the appropriate tools available (SSAS Cubes, Excel and Qlikview).
• Furthermore extensive stakeholder management is required from this role as results, trends and insights are to be communicated on a monthly basis to all relevant stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
• Apart from working with historical data, forecasting and budgeting at a detailed level across the organisation is also required on an ongoing basis.
• Recognised undergraduate degree (Finance, Costing or Maths).
• CIMA preferred.
• Additional modelling qualifications e.g. quants & actuarial analysts; stats, financial modelling.
• 3 – 5 years’ experience in a similar environment.
• Experience in managing people.
• Experience and knowledge of technical cost accounting and financial modelling practices

Role Purpose:

To lead and supervise a team of cost accountants in order to ensure that quality and productivity targets are met by leveraging resources, support functions and relationships across the business.

Responsibilities:

• Provide cost budgeting guidance to the business (prospective).
• Build, implement and maintain cost models aligned to standard drivers and methodologies to reflect both business expectations and Steer co guidance.
• Manage costing allocation and interrogate the variances.
• Develop, interpret and provide feedback to the business on monthly and ad-hoc analysis and reports to support decision making.
• Prepare profitability calculations and analyse how these influence pricing strategies; provide input for external profitability reporting requirements.
• Coordinate and manage the quality of team’s work, continuously monitoring compliance to quality and implementing improvements where required.
• Manage and monitor risk to ensure that all processes fall within the risk & audit guidelines. Investigate and implement measures to correct audit findings.
• Define processes that effectively manage objective and professional relationships and SLAs with relevant external parties.
• Apply and monitor governance to ensure that all processes and documentation on model rules and assumptions are aligned with technical committee and costing
• Monitor and coach behaviours that ensure a service culture which builds rewarding relationships, proposes innovations and allows others to provide exceptional client service.
• Continuously assess own performance, seek timely and clear feedback and request training where appropriate.
• Participate and contribute to a development culture where information regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas are actively shared.

For more information please contact Bella 011 234 7679, alternatively email your updated CV to bella @ esmartgroup. co.za

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