Commercial Accountant at RCL Foods

• RCL FOODS has an exciting opportunity available to transition your technical skills and curious mindset into a commercially experienced business professional.
• The Commercial Accountant role will help you develop business, operational finance, and commercial acumen through practical experience in the organisation. This role will a cultivate a long-term Commercial Leadership pipeline from within, ensuring the availability of diverse, competent, and skilled Talent.
• The Commercial Accountant aims to develop an individuals’ commercial and leadership ability within 2-3 years through an aggressive fast track development programme aimed at enabling business decision making and technical skills.
• Coaching from the business and functional leaders to gain insights into commercial strategic thinking.
• Planned rotations to ensure you obtain the right combination of exposure to get you ready for a leadership role.
• Structured development plans that keep you clear on what preparation you need throughout your journey.
• The role will be based in either Randfortein & Centurion. 

Minimum Requirements    
Who we are looking for:

• Senior Associate (4th year)/Audit Manager at Audit Firm (1-2 years experience).
• Good academic results.
• Individual interested in gaining an in-depth understanding of the nuts and bolts of a manufacturing organization and how commercial insights supports financial performance,
• Possess a keen eye for detail and enjoys problem solving!
• A highly analytical and results-oriented individual, who is eager to learn and grow within a Food manufacturing organization,
• Needs to be resilient, agile and adapt to change in a fast-paced complex environment.
• Good interpersonal and intrapersonal skills to deal with multiple engagements, cross-functional and operational stakeholders,
• Excellent Written and Verbal skill

Duties & Responsibilities    
The preferred candidate will gain experience in the following areas:

• Analysis of all levels of business performance including revenue, cost of sales, operational and overhead costs to provide relevant insights to the business,
• Short- and Longer-term business planning and forecasting skills,
• Management reporting and packaging of commercial insights for decision making purposes,
• In practice cost and management accounting skills including complex costing models to support product, category, channel and customer profitability,
• End-to-end supply chain and process exposure to support best in class initiatives and projects,
• Ability to harness data from multiple systems including ERP, Profitability, Operational and BI systems to provide necessary reports and package/present commercial insights,
• Influencing, collaborating and partnering in a matrix environment.

Deadline:30th September,2026