Costing Clerk: Sandton - Bluespec Holdings

Job Purpose

• To ensure that expenditure on repairs is recovered at a required profit and that insurance companies’ policies are adhered in line with SLAs, at all times.

Responsibilities

 Ensuring that the correct value for the costing of the repair is ascertained and authorised

• Confirm the accuracy of labour and paint hourly rates and price markup.
• Cross-checking of parts to supplier invoices.
• Work in progress – cost the WIP to ensure that the cost of the sales is correct.
• Escalate parts not purchased to Parts Manager/ Estimator/Additional Clerk.
• Before commencement of invoice, must ensure authorisation is received for job and additional.
• Ensuring correct documentation for approval from additional clerks, pre-costing departments, estimators and parts buyer on additional work not originally quoted for.
• Follow up with parts buyer and additional clerk regarding unauthorised parts for timeous resolution.
• Obtaining authorisation on work in progress and final costing from assessor. 
• All parts billed to insurer must have accompanied invoice. Files to be costed from applicable area.

Completion of relevant administration timeously and accurately.

• Review costing and supporting documents with Operations Director daily for sign off.
• Amend as per ops director and submit to assessor with all supporting documents for speedy authorisation.
• Follow up on outstanding documentation and escalate if not resolved within 24 hours.
• Once all final documents have been received and signed off, invoicing to be carried out.

Requirements

• 5 years in panel shop costing.
• Panel shop experience.
• Matric certificate with maths and accounting beneficial. 
• Microsoft suite – intermediate.
• TMS.
• Abuntex is non-negotiable.
• Netassess, Freeway is beneficial .