Stock Financial Analyst

Position summary

Introduction

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 BUFMs 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 DCs 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 finances 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

Information :

• Company : Woolworths
• Position : Stock Financial Analyst
• Location : Cape Town, Western Cape
• Country : ZA