Ranger Pricing Manager

POSITION DETAILS
- Responsibilities / Accountabilities
- Communication and working relationships
- Develop detailed financial analysis with recommendations for all future program studies supporting management decision making
- Status Reporting and participation in status reviews that lead up to Board Meetings
- Support launch analysis - pricing for each individual series and associated variable marketing strategy consistent with planned launch timing. Associated price position analysis
- Yield management support and analysis to drive profit improvement
- Preparing presentations including providing regular reporting on vehicle line profitability
- Following up on special cost analysis and benchmarking assignments involving cross-functional skill teams and associated finance skill team support
- Developing financial review materials for senior management
- Provide leadership and support to operating team to deliver profitable sales volume and other key metrics by actively engaging in business decisions
- Perform detailed analysis to identify significant movement in contribution margin vehicles, identifying low profit, break even or negative margins
- Understand all business implications, complete income statement and engage with Teams in remote locations to develop strategies for future model vehicles
- Support business plan, budget and forecast working with operating team meeting business requirements and deliverable to input to the Profit Team
- Bachelor's degree in Finance with Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree, CMA or CA or global equivalent degrees preferred with at least 8 - 10 years’ leadership /managerial experience in operating finance positions
- Highly proficiant in Excel, Powerpoint and ERP systems
- Understanding of Automotive Industry & Manufacturing would be advantageous

PERFORMANCE MEASURES/ SUCCESS CRITERIA
- The mean to measure the accomplishment of the position responsibilities
- Provide senior management with actionable information to improve overall business plan profitability through strategic and tactical actions
- Independently perform analysis and perform competitive benchmarking
- Provide consultancy and guidance to ensure correct treatment of South Africa unique profitability aspects, such as tax and duty impacts to remote teams
- Maintain strong communication with all teams local and remote to ensure high quality accurate results are presented to inform decision making
- Jointly work on business cases with business partners to ensure that all proposals reflect the latest financials and are optimized to provide profit and growth opportunities

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS and ABILITIES (KSA)
- Technical skills
- Competencies
- General attributes
- Linguistic skills - Ability to lead financial discussions and reviews across organizations
- Interpersonal and active listening skills
- Working in unfamiliar and unstructured environment
- Financial Management Accounting and Analysis experience across the income statement and balance sheet
- The ability to present cross-functionally to senior management up to an including Corporate President
- The ability to manage independently a diverse workload ensuring effective prioritization
- Adaptable and persuasive with strong written and verbal communication skills.
- An unimpeachable level of integrity and accountability
- Strong motivational and self-starter characteristics with a drive for results
- An understanding of the importance of quality and the philosophy of continuous improvement
- Analytical approach and strong decision-making and judgement skills
- Attention to detail
- Advance Excel, PowerPoint, ERP systems and Presentation Skills
- Understanding of Automotive Industry & Manufacturing
- High emotional resilience in stressful situations