Job Description
Role Purpose:
To provide regional management accounting support and insight across the Business.
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum of a National Diploma in Accounting/Management Accounting
- Preferably a CIMA or CA (SA) or studying towards
Required Experience:
- 5 years management accounting experience (articled or otherwise)
Required Knowledge and Skills:
- Management accounting principles and practices
- SAP (an advantage)
- Excel
- Budget management principles and practices
- Business strategies, targets, processes and economics
- Knowledge of financial and accounting principles
- Verbal and written communication
- Interpersonal
- Logical thinking
- Problem solving
- Decision-making
- Analytical thinking
- An understanding of multiple key performance indicators, inter-relationship and bottom line sensitivity
Key Responsibilities
Preparation and Reconciliation
- Conducting an initial review, reallocation, and accrual of necessary GL expenditures monthly.
- Assistance with month-end stocktake (where applicable) and investigate any material variances on all storage locations to ensure accurate GL expenditure on all materials and assets.
- Investigating, interrogating, and analyzing core variances and trends to support the presentation of an accurate and informative set of results.
- Preparation of weekly KPI presentation and input onto KPI file.
- Preparation and follow up of CAPEX, EFT, Contract Grower and ADHOC Workflows to ensure timeous completion.
Reporting
- Engaging with senior regional management through the presentation of the monthly commercial report and individual follow-up sessions.
- Assistance with the preparation of month end reports.
Information and Data Management
- Ensure team members accurately and regularly capture data into the information system to enable access to reliable data and reporting for trend analysis and decision making.
- Share relevant data with management teams to enable reliable business decision making.
Cost Control
- Assistance with the analysis of costs against budget/forecast and investigate variances monthly.
Team Coordination
- Take ownership and accountability for tasks and activities and demonstrate effective self-management in terms of planning, prioritising and self-development.
- Ensure organizational policies and auditing procedures are adhered to.
- Inform relevant parties in the event of tasks or deadlines not met, the potential risks thereof and provide appropriate resolution.
- Liasing with external suppliers to ensure timeous receipting of invoices and to ensure correct flow of documents through the process.
- Overseeing and managing the cost administrator and performance of individual.
- Facilitate and ensure effective cross functional engagements and duties.
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