Management Accountant

Area: Bellville
Salary: R35 000 CTC

* Support the Regional Finance Manager in providing finance support to operations and functional heads. The incumbent will be expected to become an invaluable partner to the business stakeholders as assigned and will be their contact for all matters concerning financial performance and analysis; continuously seeking opportunities for improvements to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the Finance team.
* The incumbent will be responsible to provide commercial decision support for finance across the business including providing accurate financial information to guide operations in their decision making on an operational level, with responsibility for budgeting, forecasting, business planning, and financial modelling. Furthermore, the incumbent will need to develop a work culture that fosters application competence, service excellence, customer focus and business process knowledge.

Education, Experience, Knowledge Skills and Competencies required:
* Relevant Accounting Qualifications
* Ability to form close working relationships with senior non-finance members of staff - communicate effectively, gaining their trust and influencing them where necessary
* Strong business planning, budgeting, forecasting and financial modelling skills
* Significant exposure to budget planning and cost / variance reporting
* Ability to quickly analyse and manipulate large quantities of financial data, drawing out key matters of significance
* Excellent communications and presentation skills (incl. PowerPoint)
* Demonstrable experience of generating ideas and formulating strategies
* In depth & practical knowledge of providing cost analysis, business case reviews and investment analysis
* COMPUTER LITERACY: MS Office Suite skills – especially EXCEL & POWER POINT
* Trained and with moderate exposure to the SAP Finance and Management Accounting modules
* Own Transport