SUMMARY:
Join a well-established manufacturing company located in North Johannesburg as a Clearing and Customs Specialist. Work closely with the Group Finance Executive, contributing to financial duties. Minimum 5 years in Procurement and Customs clearing experience required.
POSITION INFO:
Requirements:
- Matric
- Tertiary or equivalent qualification advantageous
- Intermediate Excel essential
- Pastel SAGE Evolution experience essential
- Good knowledge of Foreign Exchange
- Good verbal skills with a strong personality
- A team player and able to work independently
- Should have knowledge of ethical accounting practices and ensure they are adhered to
- Should have good oral and written communication skills
- Should have attention to detail and ability to work fast and accurate under pressure
- Should have ability to understand the whole process from suppliers to customer’s
- Ability to assist in resolving daily operational issues and reporting back to manager
- Willingness to work extra hours when required
- Strong finance and procurement background (inhouse procurement experience)
Basic duties include, but are not limited to:- Create and send out all accurate purchase orders
- Processing of GRV’s once stock are received
- Ensure goods received are checked and loaded timeously on the system
- Calculation of landed cost on imports and accurate processing in Pastel
- Resolving any differences between our external warehouse and Pastel daily
- Work closely with clearing and forwarding agents for timeous deliveries of imports and exports
- Notifying suppliers of short deliveries and / or faulty stock and arranging credits
- Calculate Recommended Retail Price in line with required GPs
- Track due dates VS suppliers (Follow up with suppliers on ETAs on all open POs)
- Completing import documents, including customs inspections when needed
- Ensure new product codes are created and maintained on the system and that pricing is always accurate and approved by finance
- Oversee all custom and duties clearing and ensure the best possible way is processed
- Streamline the business supplier ordering to be as efficient and cost effective as possible
- Handle supplier returns and supplier warranties
- Handle all supplier relationships and ensure they stick to the commercial arrangements
- Create and build new suppliers relationships
- Oversee the buying and sales statics within the company to ensure a good sell through rate
- Reporting on sales Data vs supply data
- Preparing of yearly / bi-yearly bulk orders and presentation to management
- Ensuring accuracy of SKU data in Pastel (Product descriptions, groups, categories, etc.)
- Manage all recommended selling prices vs competitors
- Handle all clearance aged items to put on promotion to clear
- Handle all bulk clearances of all stock when requested to clear stock
- Report on forecasted orders and cash flow requirement and track stock on hand to meet cash flow on due dates on Purchase orders
- Ad Hoc duties that may arise from time to time
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