Stock Financial Analyst

Listing reference: woolw_001112
Listing status: Online
Apply by: 14 March 2025
Position summary
Industry: Auditing/Accounting
Job category: Administration
Location: Cape Town
Contract: Permanent
EE position: No
Introduction
To manage the RMS stock system integrity and financial stock including movement reporting.
Job description

·       Accountable for driving stock query resolution with all relevant stakeholders (IT, Merchandise, ROG and Supply Chain).

·       Accountable for understanding the technical processes for stock from end to end.

·       Accountable for understanding certain technical query statements in Oracle/RMS.

·       Accountable for communication to BUFM’s on all stock and gross profit inventory adjustment issues.

·       Accountable for checking integrity of Stock reports in Data Warehouse General Ledger/RMS.

·       Responsible for ensuring that the RMS hospital and ATA (All Transactions Audits) is monitored relating to stocktakes at all Woolworths locations.

·       Responsible for ensuring that RMS internal diagnostics are monitored.

·       Accountable operationally and financially for stocktakes of corporate stores, division 5 stores and all warehouses including reporting of the stores stocktake cycles (including the maintaining of the stocktake published schedule).

·       Responsible for the reconciliation of certain stock balance sheet accounts (clearing accounts etc).

·       Resolving store / warehouse queries and ensuring transactions are recorded accurately in the general ledger (Triceps to RMS to Oracle).

·       Responsible for ensuring that all the DC’s and Xdock alignments are by facilitating meetings regarding mock and actual alignments with the respective Supply Chain managers and IT support staff.

·       Providing input into finance policies, principles and procedures.

·       Work shopping with relevant stakeholders to understand and communicate finance’s business requirement across multiple departments/divisions.

·       Working with the Business Systems Analyst to communicate the business requirement and ongoing interaction to ensure that any development meets the business need.

·       Assisting with the analysis of process changes, risk impacts and communication required.

·       Responsible for status reporting, feedback on issues and risks.

·       Responsible for clearing unknown and error interface reports .

·       Responsible for monitoring CA Finance stock group Unicentre and resolve any store related queries logged.

·       Adhoc requests.

Minimum requirements

Technical and Functional

·       Understand and apply financial accounting principles and concepts including knowledge of IFRS.

·       Able to use and solve problems in a large, complex, integrated Finance IT system and to process large volumes of financial transactions.

·       Apply to apply accounting knowledge in a large IT driven accounting environment and identify financial exposure and risk.

·       Able to effectively use financial business reporting systems (e.g. Cognos, Qlikview, Hyperion and Oracle Financials)etc.

·       Strong Excel skills etc.

·       Extracting data from SQL queries for RMS, Oracle and Datawarehouse.

 Minimum Qualification

·       Accounting Degree / National Diploma or equivalent .

·       2-5 years in experience in either stock (inventory) or supply chain environment (FMCG industry).

Behavioral Skills

·       Good communication skills (verbal and written)

·       Integrity and sound judgement ability

·       Attention to detail

·       Accuracy

·       Deadline driven

·       Team player

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