Divisional Management Accountant at talentCRU Proprietary Limited

Job description

Overall purpose of the job:

• Co-ordinate the collection of data to ensure accurate and timeous divisional/profit centre reporting with appropriate analysis and management reporting.
• Accurate and timeous preparation of budgets, monthly reports and forecasts with a clear understanding of dependencies, risks and opportunities.
• Ensure internal controls are maintained and reviewed for effectiveness
• Ensure all reporting deadlines are known and achieved (including corporate reporting deadlines)
• Timeous completion of allocated GL Recons
• Approve all expenses for the division.
• Undertake ad-hoc management projects/analysis as required
• Deliver an efficient and effective service to both internal and external customers at all times
• Ensure a high level of standard of service is provided to the management team as well as the Exco executive for the division.
• Respond to escalated queries and resolve successfully (internal and external) within a reasonable timeframe
• Initiate and develop new approaches to achieve expense containments and productivity improvements.
• Assist in development and testing of Oracle and Astea reporting requirements pertaining to the division and take ownership thereof.
• Maintain detail procedures with a view to provide back-up
• Sign-off of Commission calculations and payplans

Requirements:

• This person does not need to have completed articles. They can either have just completed their 3 year degree and done straight to work, so 5 – 7 years’ exp OR when they completed their degree they went on to do articles (3 years normally) and so they would then have 2 – 4 years work experience after articles
• 4 direct reports (does not need to have previous people management experience but DOES need to be strong enough to give instruction and to have a healthy debate with seniors when needs be.
• We are looking for a combo Finance + IT + Telecomms