Invoicing and Costing Manager - Manufacturing

SUMMARY:
Our client operates in the manufacturing sector and is seeking a candidate with solid experience in managing high volumes of complex invoicing in a medium to large company

POSITION INFO:

In addition, a thorough understanding of a manufacturing business and its intricate processes is required in order to streamline cost analysis and facilitate accurate reliable job costings.

Work closely with Operations, Sales, and Finance to ensure invoices and credits are applied monthly to each client account. Responsible for ensuring final outwork costs from vendors are received and accurate based on agreed-upon quoted costs. Your ability to interpret and interact with financial systems is critical in this role.

This role will include the management of invoicing and costing staff.

• Relevant financial qualification (NQF 6 and above)
• 5 - 8 years of Costing and Invoicing experience
• Manufacturing sector experience essential
• Understanding and knowledge of Exports
• Understanding of accounting principles and IFRS
• ERP system knowledge essential
• Microsoft – advanced level (Excel & Word)
• SQL Database knowledge would be an advantage

Key Result Areas

• Detailed invoice packs including Delivery notes should be reviewed for delivery to clients to ensure there are no unreconciled invoices on our debtors’ statements.
• Active involvement with the sales force to ensure the most relevant and best outcome can be achieved upon invoicing, jobs, campaigns, and cross border jobs.
• Active involvement with estimating to streamline and facilitate more accurate cost vs estimate reports. A thorough understanding of the business and its intricate processes is required in order to streamline cost analysis and facilitate accurate reliable job costings.
• Active involvement with production managers as well as production controllers to identify any out of the ordinary job issues or reworks.
• Work Closely KAMs to follow up on invoicing monthly budgets and forecasts to maintain accurate and update forecast tracking.
• Process all stock invoices nationally
• Manage the invoicing clerks to ensure they are up to date with any changes to the invoicing process as well as manage and correct any costing related issues upon review.
• Process all credit notes after reviewing the relevant supporting data and approvals
• Close off Nil Charges after obtaining all relevant supporting documents and approvals.
• Liaise with Finance and assist in any Debtors Queries to ensure collections are streamlined and collected on time.
• Follow up and maintain weekly WIP reviews as well as track and monitor invoices are processed
• Pricing jobs before invoicing as per price lists provided by the sales team.
• Highlight and track any pricing that may be less than our direct cost.
• Assist Finance and Sales teams with details on prior-year Sales figures to assist in providing detailed accurate budget data.
• Provide Sales team with detailed sales reports for the month past looking at budget versus actuals. Assist in providing product analysis to salesforce detailing turnover and cost by-product by the client.
• Assist and manager Rebate reports, contracts and updates per client and feedback any updates to salesforce.

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