The key purpose of the role is work force capacity management which entails the dynamic and strategic management of future labour capacity requirements. The role will be required to:
- Interact with Operations, Sales and Human Resources departments to plan for future capacity requirements;
- Streamline business processes between various departments to facilitate the production of coherent management information relating to direct labour;
- Review and analyse direct costs, with specific focus on direct labour cost by applying analysis and critical thinking to identify cost savings opportunities;
- Provide cost information to assist management with the calculation of costs for tenders and quotes.
Role Responsibility:
- Strategic planning of headcount requirement: interact with Operations, Sales and Human Resources departments to identify future capacity requirements
- Analyzing actual headcount in relation to required headcount and deriving action plans for headcount management
- Calculating the optimal wage cost for the business
- Performing a monthly wage cost analysis to identify reasons for variances between optimal and actual cost
- Distributing wage cost analysis to Operations, Sales, Finance and Human Resources
- Deriving action plans for wage cost management
- Communicating plans to various stakeholders and tracking the implementation of these plans and actions
- Scheduling of leave for direct Labour force in accordance with available leave balances
- Maintaining and providing cost information to the Sales and Commercial departments for use in bids and quotes
- Providing cost information to the sales teams for PI calculations and assist with calculation of optimal price increases (PIs)
- Create, update and manage physical customer files with contracts, contract schedules, important correspondence, costings, quotations, etc.
- Maintenance and distribution of the contract register for all service lines
- Uploading financial packs relating to direct labour information
- Responsible for the production of the monthly reconciliation of accounts receivable, operations (EasyRoster) and payroll (triangle balancing) to meet GFC standards
- Provide budget input for direct labour costs and compare actual results to budget / forecast and identify reasons for variances
- Provide assistance with developing business plans and models
- Participate in the design/ development/ review/ implementation and monitoring of the departmental safety plans for each year.
The Ideal Candidate:
Qualification and Experience
- Minimum B. Com degree in Finance / Cost Accounting / Management Accounting
- 2 to 5 years financial management and/or cost accounting experience would be deemed suitable for the level of the position
- Knowledge of Financial principles and practices
- Knowledge of financial controls and audit standards
- Deep understanding of accounting and ERP systems
- Knowledge of how to perform reconciliations
- Knowledge and/or understanding of different costing principles
- Working knowledge around direct labour management preferred
Skills and Attributes
- MS Office Computer skills (Excel Advanced)
- Analytical skills
- Working with complexity and large volumes of data
- Planning and Coordination
- Managing conflict
- Delivering efficiency
- Delivering performance
- Managing professionally
- Time management
- Awareness of the market environment
- Acting professionally
- Driving change
- Leading people
- Customer thinking
- Collaborating and coo-operating
- Working across function
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