Costing Administrator

Job summary:

• To collect cost information and maintain departmental databases, as well as to process, maintain, and analyze the data used for costing determinations and other reports

Duties include, but are not limited to:

Costing Administration and Systems

• Perform complex costing in Excel
• Generate costings from technical drawings
• Maintain material costs and monitor price fluctuations
• Identify and resolve faults and problems
• Translate bill of material into accurate costing
• Meticulous checking of work and analyzing costing
• Automate Excel workbooks to enable easy updating of pricelists and costing tools
• Maintain and update current costing tools
• Improve costing methods for more efficient and accurate outputs

Qualifications and Experience

• Matric certificate (preferably with Mathematics)
• At least 5 years’ previous experience in a similar role
• Advanced Excel proficiency (superuser level) with Query writing
• Working knowledge of other MS Office applications

Competencies

• Understand and use cross multiplication
• Technical/mechanical knowledge advantageous
• Able to interpret and understand technical drawings for costing purposes
• Able to understand and translate bill of material for costing purposes
• Ability to create complex Excel costing sheets
• Ability to automate Excel workbooks
• Above-average attention to detail
• Able to work well and accurately under pressure
• Strong planning and organizational skills
• Result-orientated
• Reliable and trustworthy
• Work well with others
• Capable of working independently without supervision