Material Support Coordinator (Finance Graduate)

Material Support Coordinator (Finance Graduate)

Job Description

Material Support Coordinator (Finance Graduate), Epping Plant, Cape Town

Job posting closing date: 15th November, end of day

As a person, you’re a learner – a natural leader – someone who is always taking initiative to make things better and bring others along with you.

You live your life in alignment with the highest values of integrity and quality, always ensuring your responsibilities become a long-term success story.

In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU. 

This position is responsible for 1) controlling all material under the jurisdiction of production, this includes all material issues, returns & physical stock on the production floor and 2) coordinating and reporting on daily production.

In this role, you will be:


* Checking & controlling production material floor stock


* Daily floor stock counts at required times (Including adhering to month end deadlines)


* Tracking all consumption & returns of material on SAP: finishing materials and raw materials


* Investigate material variances daily, including analysis of material quality


* Assist operations team with material trials


* Reconciliation of physical material stock to SAP after every Production run & ensuring that all adjustments were processed on SAP (Diaper raw material to be reconciled daily)


* Alerting Planning in advance for any material shortages that might occur, to ensure timeous procurement of new material


* Ensure adherence to financial procedures during stock counts and reconciling of counts


* Provide timely and accurate decision support, reporting to management to assist in optimising manufacturing cost and meeting plant objectives.


* Work with mill operations team to investigate results, adverse trends and communicate outcomes, as well as suggested corrective actions to relevant individuals.


* Prepare daily production reconciliation reports


* Declaration & Reconciliation of production and machine hours.


* Track total waste trends and share weekly updates

About Us

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We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact.

We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity.

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