Job Description

Requisition ID 48152
Position Type Student/ Intern
Recruiter #LI-TS1
Posting Type LI

About Kerry

Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.

About The Role:

The Commercial Finance Graduate will work closely with Commercial team to develop and implement Pricing Strategies for the SA business across market/technology portfolio that sustain and develop the business growth model.

The position will be based in Hillcrest, KZN.

Key Responsibilities:

• Margin Control: Monthly review of cost and pricing movements (VPC) and lead continuous improvement plan in areas that require redress
• Risk Management: Work in collaboration with procurement and operations teams in understanding movement of key cost metrics. Create and deliver mitigation and recovery plans to maintain business profitability
• Deliver high quality and timely output of pricing support to sales organization with the market pricing teams
• Identify Opportunity & Risk for business growth and proposals and solutions to maximize or mitigate where necessary
• Provide commercial partnering through using insights on sales trends, future forecasting and external market data to improve and drive business growth at market level
• Support business growth through analysis and appraisal of new methods for growth, capital investment, and new market development
• Delivery on annual pricing renewal process
• Responsible & accountable for costing and pricing of new product opportunities ensuring alignment to business margin expectations
• Ensuring accurate and timely response to pricing requests, to ensure that the customer receives information quickly
• Assist Commercial team in order to support, develop and maintain catalogue Price List
• AR and AP liaison to enable working capital management

Qualifications, Experience and Skills:

• Bachelor of Commerce Degree in Accountancy / Finance with 1-2 years' work experience, ideally in a manufacturing environment - Fresh Graduates are also encouraged to apply
• Studying towards CIMA qualification will be advantageous
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel is required; familiarity with data query/data management tools will be extremely helpful (Microsoft Word, Power Point, Access, SQL, Business Objects)
• Knowledge of ERP, ideally SAP and SAP BW reporting, and related data analysis tools are an added advantage
• Excellent communication skills, high attention to detail and the ability to work in a dynamic environment and meet tight deadlines

Competencies:

• Proactive and disciplined
• Problem Solving - enquiring mind, lateral thinking
• High level of accountability
• Analytical and problem solving in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Ability to prioritize under tight deadlines

Beware of scams online or from individuals claiming to represent us. A Kerry employee will not solicit candidates through a non-Kerry email address or phone number. In addition, Kerry does not currently utilise video chat rooms (e.g., Google Hangouts) to conduct interviews. Refuse any request that asks you to provide payment to participate in the hiring process (e.g., purchasing a xe2x80x9cstarter kit,xe2x80x9d investing in training, or something similar). Kerry will not ask you to pay any money at any point in the hiring process with the exception of reimbursable travel expenses. In addition, any payments made by Kerry will be from official firm accounts bearing the Kerry name.

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