JOB PROFILE

POSITION
Management Accountant
DEPARTMENT

Fertilizer SA Operations

REPORTING TO
Senior FM (Finance)

REPORTING STAFF
No

KEY STAKEHOLDERS

Internal – Colleagues within the finance department, All other departments at head office, All operations within South Africa
External – All entities within the Group, Auditors, Government Departments and relevant Service Providers

PURPOSE STATEMENT
To ensure the efficient functioning of the South Africa Finance function. To coordinate and consolidate the process of management reporting that provides accurate and useful information to management to assist in planning, organizing and controlling the efficient running of the organization.
To ensure that financial practices are controlled in line with statutory and professional prescriptions.
To provide the first line support to all the Fertilizer SA operations in improving and optimizing their business processes.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Education
• BCom Accounting Degree
• Audit Articles
Systems
• MS Office (MS Excel, Advanced)
• ERP System (Pastel Evolution, Microsoft AX Dynamics)

Working experience
• 5 years relevant experience
• Experience in analysis and balance sheet recons will be advantageous

COMPETENCIES
Knowledge & skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Excellent administration and organizational skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Analytical
• Computer literate
Key attributes
• Accountability
• Attention to detail
• Client Centricity
• Initiative
• Integrity
• Teamwork
• Organizational awareness
• Assertive
• Resilience
• Flexibility and Adaptability

TASKS
MAIN OUTPUTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Indirect Management of staff
• Responsible for the management of the individual Fertilizer SA operations finance teams to ensure sound service delivery to customers
• Responsible for ensuring that applicable training and development needs are identified within the individual Fertilizer SA operations finance teams
• Responsible to ensure that effective tracking systems are in place to ensure that work is performed in accordance with instructions and/or guidelines, and to enhance productivity and ensure appropriate motivation and satisfaction levels of staff
• Responsible for the consolidation and analysis of management accounts, assessing reasonableness, and providing commentary as a source of management information
• Responsible for maintaining 5 year histories

Management Reporting

• Thorough GP and Expense analysis
• Timely preparation of balance sheet reconciliation
• Analysis and provide commentary
• Assist with day to day activities of the finance reporting function
• Intercompany reconciliations
• Responsible for generating, maintaining, and analysing statistics as a
source of management information
• Responsible for consolidating Board Reports and preparing required
information for the meeting
• Responsible for monitoring and analysing actuals vs. forecasts and budgets
• Responsible for the continued improvement of the financial reporting
process
• Maintenance of all changes on all reporting files
• Resolving all reporting queries raised by management
• Responding to all queries raised by the Group Division
Process Improvement
• Responsible for monitoring, exploring and investigating the functioning of financial systems, practices and procedures with the view to identifying inefficiencies that hamper service delivery
• In this process, responsible for establishing end user satisfaction by assessing their needs
• Responsible for conducting benchmarking and best practice analyses in order to gain an overview of developmental or optimisation possibilities
• On the basis of these analyses, responsible for accessing or new implementations which could lead to substantial improvements in business efficiencies, including speed of operations, resources required to perform work and customer satisfaction
• Responsible for ensuring that systems are designed to operate in cost effective ways to maximise the competitiveness and profitability of the business
• In pursuance of meeting statutory, professional and corporate governance criteria, responsible for seeking ways to design systems so that errors, omissions or deviations can be easily identified and corrective actions easily implemented
• In the process of implementing financial value chain improvements, responsible for ensuring that sound change management practices are adhered to in order to ensure the acceptance and continuity of the new implementations
Budgeting and Forecasting
• Responsible for ensuring that the strategic financial management of Omnia Fertilizer SA, with regard to budgeting and forecasting, are managed in order to ensure organisational efficiencies and the competitive position of the business
• Against this backdrop, responsible for planning, organising, coordinating and controlling the budgeting process in order to gather valid and reliable information on time from all the stakeholders to serve as inputs into this process
• Responsible for the consolidation of the budget and its submission to the Group Division for approval
• Responsible for drawing up the departmental budgets in line with the strategic objectives of the function
• Responsible for monthly management of the budget by monitoring departmental income statements and the general ledger.
• Responsible for sound financial management by ensuring that costs are allocated to appropriate cost codes
• Responsible for reporting on the financial position of the department to account for under and over expenditures

Business Unit Functions
• Query management with these operations
• Provide training where required
• Provide guidance and assistance to all finance teams
• Investigate ways of improving and streamlining business processes
• Collect, consolidate and review all Balance sheet Recons and Schedules on
a monthly basis from all Fertilizer SA operations
• Collect and consolidate all Cash Flow Forecasts on a monthly basis from all
Fertilizer SA operations
• Collect and consolidate all Capital Expenditure Reports on a quarterly basis
from all Fertilizer SA operations
• Collect and consolidate all Insurance policy requirements on an annual
basis from all Fertilizer SA operations
Audit
• Availability to auditors during audit in respect of relevant responsibilities
• Provide support to all Omnia Fertilizer SA operations in preparing audit
packs and in resolving audit queries
• Ensure management accounts and audit pack balance after audit process is
finalized
• Coordinate annual internal audit process with all Fertilizer SA operations
and the internal auditors

CTC : includes medical aid and pension .