Management Accountant
- Recruiter
- KingsleyIrons Recruitment
- Location
- Johannesburg, South Africa
- Salary
- Competitive salary
- Posted
- 17 Oct 2019
- Closes
- 16 Nov 2019
- Ref
- 2338738
- Job role
- Management accountant
- Sector
- Accounting - Public practice
DESCRIBTION/SYNOPSYS:
SA's leading solutions provider to the Retail sector is expanding their finance team and is looking for an experienced Management Accountant. The successful candidate will have exposure to all aspects of a financial department and will have the ability to analyse and interpret information and report your findings to management for decision making.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
- Completed Bcom degree Essential
- CIMA/Studying towards beneficial
- 3 - 5 years' experience in a similar position
- Sound understanding of cost and management accounting practices and principles
- Advanced Excel Skills (Pivot tables, V Look-Ups)
- Meticulous with regards to attention to detail
- Good report writing and communication skills
- Proactive and self-motivated
- Ability to operate under pressure and meet tight deadlines
- Great interpersonal skills and team player
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- To analyse past results and forecasting future outcomes
- To maintain existing cost metrics and models and assist in developing new metrics
- To build financial models to assist business units in decision making
- To assist business unit owners in understanding the impact of different decisions
- Budgeting and forecasting:
- Assisting business in updating and submitting monthly rolling forecasts
- Assisting with the preparation of budget templates for the business
- Providing guidance to budget owners to complete their budgets
- Ensuring budgets are completed within timeframes stipulated by the group and updated within the templates provided by finance
- Monthly cost metrics reports
- Calculating and monitoring business specific cost metrics
- Analysing and interpreting these for business
- Developing reports around cost drivers and benchmarks
- Performance analysis:
- Revenue/GP analysis and assessment
- Product performance assessment
- Merchant base analysis
- Mergers & Acquisitions
SA's leading solutions provider to the Retail sector is expanding their finance team and is looking for an experienced Management Accountant. The successful candidate will have exposure to all aspects of a financial department and will have the ability to analyse and interpret information and report your findings to management for decision making.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
- Completed Bcom degree Essential
- CIMA/Studying towards beneficial
- 3 - 5 years' experience in a similar position
- Sound understanding of cost and management accounting practices and principles
- Advanced Excel Skills (Pivot tables, V Look-Ups)
- Meticulous with regards to attention to detail
- Good report writing and communication skills
- Proactive and self-motivated
- Ability to operate under pressure and meet tight deadlines
- Great interpersonal skills and team player
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- To analyse past results and forecasting future outcomes
- To maintain existing cost metrics and models and assist in developing new metrics
- To build financial models to assist business units in decision making
- To assist business unit owners in understanding the impact of different decisions
- Budgeting and forecasting:
- Assisting business in updating and submitting monthly rolling forecasts
- Assisting with the preparation of budget templates for the business
- Providing guidance to budget owners to complete their budgets
- Ensuring budgets are completed within timeframes stipulated by the group and updated within the templates provided by finance
- Monthly cost metrics reports
- Calculating and monitoring business specific cost metrics
- Analysing and interpreting these for business
- Developing reports around cost drivers and benchmarks
- Performance analysis:
- Revenue/GP analysis and assessment
- Product performance assessment
- Merchant base analysis
- Mergers & Acquisitions