Costings Accountant

Unilever is currently hiring for a Costings Accountant

Function: Finance

Work Level: WL1C

Reports to: SCF - Procurement Manager

Scope: Local

Location: La Lucia Ridge, Durban

Terms & Conditions: Full time, onsite

ABOUT UNILEVER

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. You will learn from brilliant business leaders and colleagues who provide mentorship and inspiration so that you can become a better you.

JOB PURPOSE

The main purpose of this role will be to deliver on Inventory Accuracy, Valuation updates and Reporting. (Transfer pricing and PCE process following Global PCE and TP guidelines and produce a valid product cost estimate for all SKU’s. Validate costings are correct and update all appropriate systems including SAP and appropriate sharepoints.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

Product Costing:

• Prepare Templates for Procurement inputs.

• Review pricing from procurement, challenge and validate by comparisons and sense checks.

• Upload pricing into SAP.

• Create Costing runs, execute, manage errors and validate.

• Product final PCE’s

• Manage daily costing requests.

• Produce PCE’s for innovation packs.

Transfer Pricing:

• Input PCE’s into transfer pricing models.

• Produce TP’s in house for SnA countries not out sourced to the Central Hub.

• Validate outputs.

• Ensure SharePoint’s are updated.

• Ensure Master data for pricing is updated with new pricing.

• Business partner with Costing lead and give input into PPV’s and charge outs.

• Manage daily requests for TP’s from all countries for SnA.

• Manages Central data base of TP’s for Africa Cluster.

Price Variance:

• Weekly Analysis

• Query follow up

• Inventory Corrections

• Moving Average Analysis

Business Partnering:

• Business Partner with Procurement, R&D and SU’s for inputs into TP’s.

• Business Partner with local teams on PCE outputs.

Reporting:

• Business Partner and input into the Zipper decks and other analysis as required.

Governance:

• Business Partner with the Africa PCE lead and ensure Global PCE guidelines are being followed for SnA.

• Ensure TP’s are produced per Global TP rule book.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

• B Comm (Finance)

• Studying toward CIMA an advantage

• Businesses experience an advantage

Critical Behaviours

• Care deeply: caring deeply about how consumers experience our brands every day, everywhere; about our people’s growth and development, and our impact on the planet. You care about your performance, to a point where it hurts when you don’t win.  Always brings their best self. Has emotional intelligence to take feedback, manage mood and motivations and build empathy for others. Sets high standards for themselves. Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside of Unilever.

• Focus on what counts: we set clear and stretching goals and recognise maximum performance impact.  Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed.

• Stay three steps ahead: we think boldly and creatively to make breakthroughs in performance. We are always curious and confident – anticipating and staying ahead of consumer needs and external trends to beat the competition. Approaches delivery with an iterative and incremental, test - do - learn approach. Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.

• Deliver with excellence: we deliver everything we do with excellence and pace. We take personal ownership and hold each other to account – always finding a way to do what we said we will do.  Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results.

Unilever is an equal opportunities employer and committed to diversity and inclusivity in the workplace.  We are intentional in employing the best talent that reflects the demographics of our country and which will help build representation of currently under-represented groups. We therefore invite applications from all candidates representing diversity of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. When appointing potential candidates, the South African Employment Equity and Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Legislation will be considered.  

We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. If you are applying as a foreign national, please note that you may be requested to provide supporting documents supporting this. 

This is an office-based role in Durban and requires 100% of time attendance on site.

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.