Management Accountant

• RCL FOODS is seeking a versatile and commercially astute Management Accountant to join our Commercial Growth team. We are looking for a strong decision-maker with innovative thinking and a passion for unlocking strategic value.

• The Purpose of the Role is to provide Commercial support to the Growth Functions (Customer, Customer Marketing & Marketing) and any other relevant teams, enabling strategic decision-making regarding profitability, product feasibility, innovation, and revenue optimization. The role also supports the Commercial Executive on tactical and strategic projects and contributes to the development of high-performance teams.

Minimum Requirements

• Preferably a CIMA or CA(SA) qualification.

• 3 to 5 years of management accounting experience, including commercial costing and exposure to processing or manufacturing environments.

Knowledge & Competence

• Commercial accounting principles and practices

• Product and pricing strategies

• Product costing principles, practices and performance indicators

• Processing economics

• An understanding of multiple key performance indicators, inter-relationship and bottom-line sensitivity

Skills

• Verbal and written communication

• Computer literacy (MS Office (Excel) & Power BI)

• Report writing

• Interpersonal

• Logical thinking

• Problem solving

• Decision-making

• Analytical thinking

• Presentation

• Numeracy

• Organizational awareness

Duties & Responsibilities

Sales & Profitability Analysis & Reporting

• Design sales and profitability dashboards to provide insights into customer, brand and product performance against targets.

• Drive enhanced customer and product profitability analysis to unlock margin opportunities.

• Support customer and marketing teams with system tools for costing and profitability.

• Conduct profitability deep dives, quarterly business reviews and attend to adhoc profitability queries.

• Provide commercial voice of reason in cross functional discussions and challenge internal functions to ensure sound commercial decisions are made.

Customer Pricing Support

• Support pricing reviews and negotiations by calculating pricing adjustments with reference to internal margin aspirations and external market pricing, by providing supporting documentation and the relevant customer communication.

• Provide mandate and list price sheets to ensure target margins are achieved.

• Constantly review pricing to ensure net realisation is achieved in line with mandates and annual pricing adjustments.

• Conduct pricing scenario analysis and "what-if" costing.

• Enhance transparency across all deal and discount structures covering both on-invoice and off-invoice by implementing routine reporting by customer, channel, and Sku.

Product Costing & New Product Development

• Provide indicative pricing for new product development, specification changes, and R&D-approved amendments. Integrate assumptions utilized into the indicative commercials.

• Attend New Product Development meetings on all new products and provide commercial insight to the marketing function.

• Conduct post-launch evaluations on an annual basis to assess performance against expectations.

Net Revenue Management

• Promo Management

• Encourage use of the ROI tools across BUs/accounts for uniformity. Providing training to other functions on driving healthy promotional decisions.

• Drive promotional excellence across all relevant stakeholders by reviewing and optimizing promo mechanics and spend.

• Review promotional activity and identify

Portfolio Pricing

• Collaborate with Customer Marketing on pricing strategies by utilizing external data sources, (Rex, Nielsen, Circana) data to better unlock insights.

• Provide commercial support to the broader NRM functions on product SPI analysis.

Active Mix Management

• Perform quadrant analysis to support decision making, including tail-cutting and rationalization exercises to streamline product offerings and enhance profitability.

• Trade Investments

• Support the central NRM Team in the interrogation of trade terms across Business Units to enhance visibility and strategically redirect trade investments toward initiatives that maximize return and effectiveness.

• Budgeting and Forecasting

• Provide commercial front-end input into the business planning and quarterly forecasting process.

• Provide commercial front-end input into the cash flow budgeting process.

Customer Spend

• Lead quarterly customer spend reviews with the respective customer and customer marketing teams.

• Monitor AT account health and performance and track customer spend monthly

Deadline;5th November,2026