DC Costing Specialist - Bellville at Nestle

With a history spanning over 150 years, Nestlé didn’t become the world’s leading food and beverages brand by chance. Perfection is at the heart of what we do and our people are always looking for the next big idea to cement our status. We’re now looking for a Costing Specialist at one of our Distribution Centre in Bellville.

Working as a Costing Specialist you would be responsible for supporting the DC Manager as a trusted co-pilot within the DC on a day to day basis. Provide visibility around costs related to the DC processes through the driving of relevant analysis and reporting (monitoring of the budget and controlling the variances), ensure adherence to financial legal requirements and NAS

A day in the life of...

A DC Costing Specialist

• Continuous Improvement: Support cost improvement opportunities for FDE and VDE and warehouse specific Bad Goods, be an active contributor to improvement projects and initiatives, validate, review and track proposed savings (NCE, OPEX). Challenge assumptions for cost improvements in DC. Actively drive NCE activities within the Distribution Centre and ensure activities are in alignment with business OMP
• Reporting and Analytics: Manage DC reporting of actuals and forecasts across the DC ensuring transparency, accuracy and timeliness of this process; follow up and monitoring of progress to close gaps, ensuring Nestle financial policies, Accounting Standards and Costing Standards are followed by promoting ownership of data at source. Perform monthly supply chain variance analysis of YTD vs Plan vs Prior Year.
• Compliance: Manage routine audit activities in the distribution area, inventory by performing routine audit activities to ensure compliance on critical areas eg) NAS, Costing Standards, statutory accounting/tax, OPEX guideline and appropriately escalate business risks. As the Champion of compliance & risk management is actively involved in internal and external audits within Distribution.

What Will Make You Successful

• BCom. Accounting Degree or a National Diploma in Accounting
• 3 – 5 years’ experience in a Finance Specialist role in a Factory/Manufacturing/Distribution Centre environment.
• Fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry experience(ideal)
• Experience within a network organization (internal and external providers)