Management Accountant

Permanent

Cape Town

Overview

We are a Supply Chain and Sales & Merchandising partner adding value to your business through a fully integrated, temperature-controlled network in Southern Africa.

But we are also more than that. We are people serving people. While we boast the best in tech and infrastructure, our people are our greatest resource. With our skilled, curious, can do people at the forefront, our assets become your assets, our service your solutions.

Vector's vehicle fleet includes a food industry first in 'multi temperature' vehicles enabling the company to service business across frozen, chilled and ambient temperature zones on a single delivery.

Job Purpose

This role is ideal for an analytical professional with strong costing, pricing, and commercial decision support experience, preferably within logistics, processing, or manufacturing environments. The successful incumbent will play a key role in providing management accounting support and insight, enabling informed commercial decisions and supporting profitable growth across the business.

Key Responsibilities Costing, Pricing & Commercial Decision Support

• Develop end-to-end cost models for new business opportunities across business units.
• Lead costing inputs new business, translating commercial and operational requirements into robust, auditable cost structures.
• Re cost existing contracts for renewals, assessing the impact of volume changes, scope changes, inflation, and efficiency improvements.
• Provide pricing scenarios, margin analysis, sensitivity analysis, and benchmarking to support commercial decision making.
• Identify cost risks, margin erosion, and financial exposure, supporting escalation discussions and remediation planning.
• Conduct post implementation reviews for new business take ons by comparing actual performance to approved cost models and capturing lessons learned.

Activity Based Costing (ABC), Cost Drivers & Methodology

• Apply and continuously improve the Activity Based Costing (ABC) model to accurately reflect operational resource consumption.
• Identify, validate, and maintain cost drivers aligned to activities, volumes, and service complexity.
• Design, maintain, and enhance cost allocation methodologies and drivers within TM1.
• Validate costing assumptions with Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, and Finance stakeholders.
• Review operational processes, supply chain design, and operating models to identify inefficiencies, cost leakage, and optimisation opportunities.
• Quantify and assess the financial impact, sustainability, and payback of cost saving initiatives.

Profitability Analysis, Reporting & Executive Insight

• Produce executive level profitability reporting by business unit.
• Analyse revenue, cost, and margin performance to identify key performance drivers, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Conduct deep dive analysis into underperforming contracts and margin erosion, identifying root causes and corrective actions.
• Maintain the new business revenue and margin pipeline to support forecasting, budgeting, and growth planning.
• Deliver clear, actionable financial insights and recommendations to Executive leadership to support strategic portfolio, investment, and growth decisions.

Project Management

• Lead, manage, and facilitate commercial and costing related projects.
• Identify logistics areas for process improvement and cost savings to ensure business and customer expectations are met.
• Monitor industry standards, trends, and best practices to identify developments in logistics planning or execution.

Qualifications And Experience Qualifications, Skills and Experience Required for the Job

• Matric (Grade 12).
• Minimum BCom Finance/Accounting degree or equivalent qualification.
• 2-3 years' management accounting experience, including commercial costing and exposure to processing or manufacturing environments.

Skills and Competencies

• Planning and organisation.
• Project management.
• Advanced end user computer skills (MS Office, Project, Visio etc.).
• Verbal and written communication.
• Report writing.
• Strong computer literacy, with SAP and advanced Microsoft Excel skills being essential.

Vector Logistics supports the principles of Employment Equity and is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. Preference will be given to candidates from designated groups in line with our Employment Equity Plan.

If you have not heard from us within 3 to 4 weeks after submitting your application, please consider your application unsuccessful on this occasion. We truly appreciate your interest in joining the Vector team and encourage you to stay connected for future opportunities that may align with your skills and career journey.

We look forward to hearing from you!