DC Finance Admin Manager
takealotcom
Kwa-Zulu Natal
Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Other
- Takealot Supply Chain
Job description
- [](https://www.takealot.com/), South Africa's leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented **DC Finance Manager** to join our team in **Kwa-Zulu Natal.**
We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us. We offer a market related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs, a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.
**This position reports to the: National Planning and Procurement Manager**
**Your responsibilities will include:**
**Financial reporting:**
- Prepare DC monthly income statement
- Prepare DC month end journals to ensure all cost allocated accurately
- Prepare cost variance analysis
- Process all DC invoices for payment and maintain a real time overview of expenses versus budget
- Prepare annual DC budget process and long-term planning
- Maintain the purchase order tracking tool to control all expenses to align with approved budget
- Prepare and present reports/dashboards on trends, issues and solutions
**Planning: Workforce Management**
- Prepare weekly timesheet for HOD approvals and invoicing for Temporary employment services providers
- Maintain the permanent employee schedule and accurately record overtime for payment.
- Manage and maintain the relationship with Temporary Employment Services providers.
- Hold regular meetings to align and engage all departmental managers to the approved Plan
- Maintain and update SOPs to align with current business practice
- Propose cost reduction initiatives while maintaining productivity
- Manage and escalate weekly/monthly exceptions against planned outputs and timelines
**Procurement:**
- Design and manage internal and external processes, standards and SLAs
- Procure all consumables in line with the agreed plans and schedules, place orders and process all documentation
- Procure packaging materials in line DC with requirements
- Manage the relationship with current suppliers and co-ordinate the purchase order processing and delivery of goods and services.
- Participate in RFP and RFQ for DC resource and service requirements
**Team Management**
- Manage a team of admin clerks to ensure DC finance and procurement processes run efficiently
- Manage the finance and procurement process for 2 DC’s in CPT
- Provide data driven insights and recommendations to improve workforce efficiency and quality
- Develop continuous improvement initiatives to increase efficiency, productivity and customer services.
**Qualification & Experience:**
- B.Comm or Btech Accounting/Cost Accounting
- Minimum 5 years relevant experience
- People management experience
- Previous experience with WMS systems such as Oracle, SAP, Logfire or similar
- High level of proficiency with MS Office packages
- Previous experience in mini project management advantageous
- Comfortable with change and excellent team player
- Comfortable with learning and adapting to new systems
**Attributes Required**:
- Analytical, good organiser and facilitator
- Ability to influence people, consult and facilitate
- Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude; self-motivated
- Attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken
- Comfortable with complexity and adapting
- Tolerant to pressure, and a fast paced environment
- Stakeholder engagement across all levels
- Ability to respectfully and professionally challenge status quo
**The Environment**:
- employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer- centric, fun and have the shared ambition of being the leading e- commerce company in Africa.
- We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
- We are short on ego and high on output.
- We are doers and not only thinkers, its all in the execution after all.
- We love what we do and what we are creating.
- We seek to employ an **Extra Ordinary Mind** who is Smart, has Integrity, and is Hardworking.
If you meet the above you are an **Extraordinary Mind** so come and join us!
***Takealot Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities, to apply*.**