Career Opportunities at Toys R Us And Babies R Us South Africa

Duties & Responsibilities

• Achieve growth and hit sales targets by successfully managing, mentoring, and leading staff.
• Interact with sales merchandisers, representatives and regional managers to evaluate sales strategy and results.
• Enforcing and implementing AWESOME customer service to give customer a WOW experience.
• Attend to unique and individual shopping needs of each customer and always put  the Customer first. 
• Develop, motivate and inspire respective teams in an ENTHUSIASTIC manner.
• Maintains store staff job results by recruiting, coaching, counselling, and disciplining employees; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results.
• Authorise all work schedules (including but not limited to work, break and leave).
• Ensure continuous training and development of all staff, and consistently carrying out training.
• Scheduling and assigning employees and following up on work results
• Handle customer complaints in a calm and professional manner
• Managing and controlling all daily store operations to maximize sales turnover whilst keeping stores expenses within allocated budgets and stock management.
• Managing and controlling all daily store operations including stores expenses within allocated budgets and stock management to maximise sales turnover.
• Minimise all controllable expenses and costs.
• Protect company assets and minimise all shrinkage, damages and theft.  
• Executing of physical plans/ actions to achieve desired sales results and sales turnover, including motivating staff to do so.
• Retain records of all stock and financial transactions.
• Conduct floor walks daily and initiate warehouse and/or overstock replenishments and face-ups.
• Implement, monitor and enforce all SOP’s.
• Maintaining company merchandise and housekeeping standards.
• Coordinate and manage all key service providers in line with company expectations (including but not limited to guarding, security, cleaning and logistics)
• Enforce effective and efficient implementation of all sales promotions (Including but not limited to road shows, centre management liaising etc ).
• Identify marketing opportunities and communicate to all relevant parties
• Ensure promotions are executed timeously and execution is planned in advance.

Desired Experience & Qualification

Minimum Requirements:

• Matric Certificate
• Must have own or reliable transport to work to be able to work shifts
• Management Position for a minimum of 3 years within a Retail Environment

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 Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage Group Finance according to business plans
• Interpretation of Business Plan and Strategy
• GAP analysis between activities of department and best practice
• Manage and review budgets and forecast
• Maintain a strict cost management culture
• Approve and monitor expenditure
• Analyse cash flow and monitor cash balances and cash forecasts
• Arrange debt and equity financing
• Analyse financial statements to identify potential risk areas
• Identify and implement cost saving initiatives
• Identify processes to be improved efficiencies and implement changes
• Financial Controls and process improvements
• Manage, direct and guide finance team on improving financial controls
• Ensure financial and accounting policies are relevant
• Ensure proper reconciliation and review of balance sheet accounts
• Identify deviations to policies and procedures and implement improved control environment
• Authorise payment of vendors/sundry payments according to delegation of duties
• Advise and coach business managers on control improvements
• Ensure that a business case is in place for all relevant projects
• Monthly Group Financial Reporting
• Manage and direct the planning & coordination of month end close, consolidation process and reporting
• Ensure the monthly reporting is aligned with best practice
• Prepare the monthly Group Financial Report
• Analytic review and interpretation of each division/company financial report and business drivers
• Continuously evaluate the relevance of the information contained in the Financial Reports.
• Interim and annual Financial Reporting (Statutory reporting).
• Manage and direct the planning & coordination of annual financial reporting procedure with all role-players
• Review the financial statements of other small entities within the Group
• Ensure the Financial statements are aligned with the relevant accounting standards
• Review the Audit Reports and findings and implement recommendations
• Continuously evaluate the relevance of the information contained in the Audit Report
• Manage and develop team members
• Manage department according to applicable legislation and company Code of Conduct
• Maintain appropriate insurance coverage

 The successful candidate will maintain strict confidentiality of all information acquired, especially with regard to trade procedures, policies and employees.

 Key characteristics of the successful candidate:

• Collaborative leadership approach
• Professional accounting/financial qualification
• Strong communicator
• Sales driven
• Analytical
• Strategic thinker
• Decisiveness
• Creative problem-solver

 Qualification, Skills and Experience

• CA(SA)
• 5 years' experience in leading the finance function
• Experience in managing a large team
• Retail experience advantageous
• SAGE 300 knowledge advantageous
• Advanced Excel Skills 

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Duties & Responsibilities

To meet store sales targets and deliver fantastic customer service whilst effectively planning, organizing and controlling all operations of a retail store in accordance with the Company’s standards and procedures. This document must be read in conjunction with the performance appraisal document and forms part of the employee’s terms and conditions of employment.

• Achieve growth and hit sales targets by successfully managing, mentoring, and leading staff.
• Interact with sales merchandisers, representatives and regional managers to evaluate sales strategy and results.
• Enforcing and implementing AWESOME customer service to give customer a WOW experience.
• Attend to unique and individual shopping needs of each customer and always put  the Customer first. 
• Develop, motivate and inspire respective teams in an ENTHUSIASTIC manner.
• Maintains store staff job results by recruiting, coaching, counselling, and disciplining employees; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results.
• Authorise all work schedules (including but not limited to work, break and leave).
• Ensure continuous training and development of all staff, and consistently carrying out training.
• Scheduling and assigning employees and following up on work results
• Handle customer complaints in a calm and professional manner
• Managing and controlling all daily store operations to maximize sales turnover whilst keeping stores expenses within allocated budgets and stock management.
• Managing and controlling all daily store operations including stores expenses within allocated budgets and stock management to maximise sales turnover.
• Minimise all controllable expenses and costs.
• Protect company assets and minimise all shrinkage, damages and theft.  
• Executing of physical plans/ actions to achieve desired sales results and sales turnover, including motivating staff to do so.
• Retain records of all stock and financial transactions.
• Conduct floor walks daily and initiate warehouse and/or overstock replenishments and face-ups.
• Implement, monitor and enforce all SOP’s.
• Maintaining company merchandise and housekeeping standards.
• Coordinate and manage all key service providers in line with company expectations (including but not limited to guarding, security, cleaning and logistics)
• Enforce effective and efficient implementation of all sales promotions (Including but not limited to road shows, centre management liaising etc ).
• Identify marketing opportunities and communicate to all relevant parties
• Ensure promotions are executed timeously and execution is planned in advance.

Desired Experience & Qualification

• Matric Certificate;
• Must have own or reliable transport to be able to work shifts;
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience within a Retail Environment, including 2 years’ of Management experience.