Management Accountant at Vector Logistics

Job Purpose

• This role is ideal for an analytical professional with strong costing, pricing, and commercial decision-support experience, preferably within logistics, processing, or manufacturing environments. The successful incumbent will play a key role in providing management accounting support and insight, enabling informed commercial decisions and supporting profitable growth across the business. 

Key Responsibilities

Costing, Pricing & Commercial Decision Support:

• Develop end-to-end cost models for new business opportunities across business units.
• Lead costing inputs new business, translating commercial and operational requirements into robust, auditable cost structures.
• Re-cost existing contracts for renewals, assessing the impact of volume changes, scope changes, inflation, and efficiency improvements.
• Provide pricing scenarios, margin analysis, sensitivity analysis, and benchmarking to support commercial decision-making.
• Identify cost risks, margin erosion, and financial exposure, supporting escalation discussions and remediation planning.
• Conduct post-implementation reviews for new business take-ons by comparing actual performance to approved cost models and capturing lessons learned.
• Activity-Based Costing (ABC), Cost Drivers & Methodology:
• Apply and continuously improve the Activity-Based Costing (ABC) model to accurately reflect operational resource consumption.
• Identify, validate, and maintain cost drivers aligned to activities, volumes, and service complexity.
• Design, maintain, and enhance cost allocation methodologies and drivers within TM1.
• Validate costing assumptions with Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, and Finance stakeholders.
• Review operational processes, supply chain design, and operating models to identify inefficiencies, cost leakage, and optimisation opportunities.
• Quantify and assess the financial impact, sustainability, and payback of cost-saving initiatives.

Profitability Analysis, Reporting & Executive Insight:

• Produce executive-level profitability reporting by business unit.
• Analyse revenue, cost, and margin performance to identify key performance drivers, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Conduct deep-dive analysis into underperforming contracts and margin erosion, identifying root causes and corrective actions.
• Maintain the new business revenue and margin pipeline to support forecasting, budgeting, and growth planning.
• Deliver clear, actionable financial insights and recommendations to Executive leadership to support strategic portfolio, investment, and growth decisions.

Project Management:

• Lead, manage, and facilitate commercial and costing-related projects.
• Identify logistics areas for process improvement and cost savings to ensure business and customer expectations are met.
• Monitor industry standards, trends, and best practices to identify developments in logistics planning or execution.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience Required for the Job

Qualifications and Experience

• Matric (Grade 12).
• Minimum BCom Finance/Accounting degree or equivalent qualification.
• 2–3 years’ management accounting experience, including commercial costing and exposure to processing or manufacturing environments. 

Skills and Competencies

• Planning and organisation.
• Project management.
• Advanced end user computer skills (MS Office, Project, Visio etc.).
• Verbal and written communication.
• Report writing.
• Strong computer literacy, with SAP and advanced Microsoft Excel skills being essential.