Reporting line: Financial Executive

Location: City Deep, Johannesburg

Purpose of the role:

This role plays a key role in managing product costing, pricing, and margin analysis to support commercial and operational decision-making. This role ensures that accurate cost and pricing data is maintained, supports budgeting, drives collaboration across departments, and provides critical financial insights to improve profitability and operational efficiency.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain and manage costing files to support customer pricing decisions.
• Liaise with procurement to track and incorporate cost updates for timely pricing adjustments.
• Lead the S&OP (Sales & Operations Planning) meetings with procurement and other cross-functional teams.
• Work closely with production to understand material usage and ensure accurate costing.
• Develop a working knowledge of all production processes to improve costing accuracy.
• Assist in the preparation of annual and rolling budgets.
• Support financial managers by checking supplier and service provider payment documentation.
• Asset control and verification
• Capex control process administration
• Develop and maintain relevant reports to support sales and margin management.
• Coordinate and administer stock takes when required.
• Assist with ad-hoc finance tasks as requested by financial managers.
• Prepare procurement cost information to support price negotiations during pricing review windows.
• Maintain accurate records of all client pricing history and changes.
• Perform ad-hoc variance analysis across cost, margin, and operational performance.
• Review, understand, and verify standard cost information in the ERP system (Syspro preferred).

Key Skills and Competencies:

• Strong understanding of product costing and margin management.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams including procurement and production.
• Effective communicator and team leader, especially in cross-functional meetings.
• Strong attention to detail, accuracy, and analytical capability.
• Intermediate to advanced Excel skills
• Experience with ERP systems (Syspro preferred).
• Strong organisational and reporting skills.
• Commercially minded with good business acumen.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure.

Qualifications and Experience:

• BCom in Accounting / Finance or equivalent (required).
• CIMA qualified or actively working toward CIMA qualification (preferred and strongly advantageous).
• 3–5 years of relevant experience in management accounting, ideally in a manufacturing or FMCG environment.

Application:

Qualifying and/or interested candidates should send their full Curriculum Vitae to Jenna Barnard at jennab@finlar.co.za.
Application deadline: 28 November 2025

Note:

To consider any application for employment, we will have to process your personal information. The Protection of Personal Information Act, 4 of 2013 (POPIA), provides that when one processes another’s personal information, such collection, retention, dissemination, and use of that person’s personal information must be done in a lawful and transparent manner.

To give effect to the above, we are required to provide you with information regarding the processing of your personal information. This information is recorded under the HR Processing Notice, which can be accessed and viewed on the Company website at https://www.libstar.co.za/legal/.