Finance and Operations General Manager (Full-Time)
O'Brien Recruitment
- Cape Town, Western Cape
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Running the gummed tape factory
- Acting as financial manager for the entire business unit
- At least 10 years’ experience in a financial management position in a manufacturing environment
- BCom Degree
- Articles with an auditing (Advantageous)
- A good knowledge of accounting and cost accounting
- Accustomed to meeting sales, profitability and production targets
- Sound knowledge of internal controls
- Customer focused and service oriented
- Ability to work well under pressure
- Ability to meet tight reporting deadlines
- Sound communication skills= both verbal and written
- A good team player
- Ability to motivate staff
- An analytical mind and able to problem solve
- Experience in working capital management
Factory
- Setting factory budget and monitoring actual performance against budget
- Ensure that factory runs efficiently
- Ordering raw materials from local and overseas suppliers to ensure stock levels
- Are adequate to meet sales orders/production targets
- Negotiating pricing with suppliers
- Maintaining BOM’s for changes in input costs, waste percentages and processes
- Creating BOM’s for new products
- Daily production plan discussion with factory manager
- Multiple daily visits to factory to monitor production/solve problems
- Setting monthly production targets for production manager
- Ensuring production is backflushed daily-assist with backflushing as and when required
- Determining when night shifts/overtime need to be worked
- Liaising with suppliers/service providers for repairs/maintenance to plant & machinery as and when required
- Liaising with sales managers and sales reps re their gummed tape requirements
- Identifying new markets/uses for gummed tape so as to grow customer base and
- Increasing market share
- Preparing quotes for new sales enquiries
- Monitoring waste in the factory
- Monitor internal controls in the factory
- Approving creditors and sundry creditors for payment
- Preparing salary/wages input for dolly monthly
- Negotiating wage increases with union
- Setting branch budget and monitoring actual performance against budget
- Writing up and reconciling cash book
- Responsible for preparation of monthly management accounts
- Monitor internal controls in the branch
- Approve new credit applications
- Approve sales above customer credit limits as and when required
- Notifying national credit manager simultaneously
- Regularly review age analysis
- Assist in collecting overdue amounts
- Authorize debtors’ journals
- Authorize credit notes
- Approving creditors and sundry creditors for payment on Nedbank business
- Extend creditors terms wherever possible
- Ensure stock is delivered on time to our customers
- Monitoring stock levels
- Maintaining fleet of trucks\bakkies
- Ensuring daily cycle counts done
- Authorising stock conversions
- Ensure the efficient running of our receiving department
- Ensure all orders are picked/checked before being collected/delivered
- Waiting after hours when necessary for country drivers
- Who are late in returning to the branch
- Authoring all purchase orders
- Negotiating wage increases with union
- Preparing salary input for dolly monthly
- Ensure that working capital management achieves optimum ROI for the business