Costing Clerk

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Employer: Career Circuit

A Costing Clerk in shopfitting prepares cost estimates for projects, reads plans, and analyzes costs for materials, labor, and overhead. This role involves assisting with client quotations, maintaining price records, identifying cost-saving opportunities, and tracking cost variations against actual expenses. 

 

Key Responsibilities:

  • Cost estimation: Accurately calculating and preparing cost estimates for shopfitting and joinery projects.
  • Plan analysis: Reading and interpreting project plans to gather necessary information for costing.
  • Cost breakdown: Analyzing and breaking down costs related to materials, labor, and overhead.
  • Quotation and billing: Assisting in the preparation of client quotations and cost breakdowns for projects.
  • Record maintenance: Maintaining up-to-date pricing records and ensuring the accuracy of cost allocations.
  • Cost variation tracking: Working with production and procurement teams to monitor and track cost variations and variances.
  • Cost optimization: Identifying areas where costs can be optimized to improve project profitability. 

Candidate Requirements

Required Skills and Qualifications:

  • Strong mathematical and analytical skills.
  • Attention to detail to ensure accurate record-keeping and calculations.
  • Excellent organizational and communication skills.
  • Proficiency in reading and interpreting technical drawings and plans.
  • Experience in a costing or financial role, ideally within the manufacturing or shopfitting industry.
  • Ability to work effectively with production, procurement, and site teams.

 

Experience Required:

  • 5 years’ experience in working with QuickBooks and Pastel.
  • 5 years’ experience in similar role and have worked with QuickBooks and Pastel
  • Sound understanding of QuickBooks and Pastel accounting processes.
  • Manufacturing / Shopfitting industry experience

 

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About Career Circuit

Career Circuit is a truly South African, privately owned Human Capital Recruitment and Management Services company, established in 2010. With cumulatively in excess of 50 years’ Human Capital Recruitment and Management experience, we partner with Candidates, Clients, Strategic Industry Partners and Subject Specialists to facilitate successful professional business partnerships. As specialist “generalists” in our approach, we offer end-to-end Human Capital solutions.

Being an equal opportunity employer, our Career Circuit Team is a truly unique blend of individuals from diverse backgrounds and cultures, who share a common passion - to maximise every possible opportunity to facilitate a positive difference in someone’s life. Suitably qualified and experienced, we are sensitive to the ever-changing business environment and pride ourselves in offering professional, dynamic, personalised and tailor-made solutions to our valued Business Partners.

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