Administration Manager

Job Description

Reference Number: UNI260618-7
Business Unit / Division: Consumer
Contract: Admin Foods
Job Type: Permanent – Normal
Location: Tulisa Park, Gauteng, South Africa
Minimum Education Level: Bachelors Degree | Advanced Diploma
Closing Date: 20 September 2026

Job Advert Summary

To lead and integrate administrative and financial operations across South Africa, ensuring profitability, compliance, cost control and operational efficiency through robust financial management, process optimisation and governance in a high-volume logistics environment.

This is NOT a pure admin role, it is a commercially focused operational finance role with administrative oversight.

Minimum Requirements

• Degree in Accounting, Financial Management, or Transport Economics
• 5–8 years’ experience in a logistics / transport environment, with at least:
  • 3 years in a financial or operational finance leadership role
• Strong exposure to:
  • Budgeting and forecasting
  • Costing, pricing and contract financials
• Advanced Excel (mandatory) + experience
• Proven track record in process improvement and cost optimisation
• Knowledge and understanding stock and stock system

Critical Competencies

• Financial & commercial acumen
• Analytical thinking & problem solving
• Process optimisation mindset
• Influencing & stakeholder engagement
• Leadership & team development

Duties & Responsibilities

• Own regional P&L support, including cost control, margin tracking and variance analysis
• Deliver monthly, quarterly and annual budgets, forecasts and financial insights
• Manage cash flow, working capital and cost leakage risks
• Partner with Operations on profitability improvement (cost per km, cost per route, fleet utilisation, etc.)
• Lead end-to-end admin processes across depots
• Standardise and optimise financial and operational workflows
• Identify inefficiencies and implement continuous improvement initiatives
• Ensure data integrity across systems
• Maintain accurate and auditable financial records
• Manage and develop admin teams
• Drive performance management, KPIs and accountability culture
• Build financial capability within operational teams
• Act as finance business partner
• Analysing and correcting non adherence to company policies
• Implementing processes that may lack at Contracts
• To assist Contract Mangers in Finance and Admin processes at the contracts.