Job Title: Project & Costing Manager
Role Mission Statement
The objective of this role is maintaining and supporting
excellence in costing practice and ensuring that are all project costing are
provided adhering strictly to financial guidelines as mandated by the business.
Would be responsible for ensuring accurate and consistent costing across teams
and brands ensuring uniformity of cost elements which are common across all.
Would also support the drive for improved project profitability through
provision of the necessary analysis to top management to show trends to drive
corrective actions. Would be the local custodian of the KEL costing tool and
point of liaison with both local and regional finance teams for all updates
Nobody knows consumers better than Kantar. Providing insight
and inspiration to help clients flourish in an extraordinary world, we bring
together 12 of the world’s leading research, data and insight brands. At the
heart of WPP, our global team of 30,000 people in more 100 countries delivers
specialist insight, business strategies and consultancy support.
Key Outcomes
Champion costing process ensuring all costs are accurate and
complies with costing process
Generation of important periodic commercial reports like GM
and profit analysis by teams and by brands
Smooth coordination of Ops units and other support functions
(DC,QC,DP,IT, Admin) when responding to RFQ requests from either the local CS
or MCP teams
Development and maintenance of necessary rates cards
required for costing
Capabilities Statement
- Ability to analyse and spot trends
- Articulate and able to communicate clearly both written and verbally with no ambiguities
- Good understanding of finance processes, commercials of a project.
- Ability to use excel to run analysis and reports which can clearly communicate trends and scenarios which are useful for decision making or taking remedial actions
- Ability to effectively critique and challenge all direct cost budgets for optimisation and giving useful feedback for improvement
- Tertiary education, preferably a degree (B.Com, Business Administration, Project Management or equivalent)
- Excellent knowledge of Excel and Word, added advantage if have advanced Excel experience & skills
- At least 3-5 years working experience
- Sound knowledge of the research process and marketing research, previous research experience an advantage
Rewards Statement
At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people
based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach
helps to ensure we are market competitive and also to support a pay for
performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are
linked to what you deliver.
Application Statement
We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and
creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a
career that’s out of the ordinary and join us.
How to Apply
Interested persons should click here to apply
Good Luck!!!
