Accountant at Exxaro Resources

Job description

PURPOSE:

To analyse, compile and consolidate management accounting and reporting documents

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Grade 12/ Standard 10- (Essential/Minimum)
• National Diploma Cost and Management Accounting (Essential/Minimum)
• B Com Cost and Management Accounting (Recommended/Desirable)

EXPERIENCE:

3-5 years Relevant experience in an Finance/Management Accounting- Essential/Minimum - Operational

REQUIREMENTS:

• Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)
• Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)
• Computer Literacy (MS Office Suite, SAP, HFM Financial system) (Essential/Minimum)

POSITION OUTPUTS:

The incumbent will inter alia be responsible for the following:

• Safe and Healthy Work Environment
• Maintain and ensure a healthy environment, safe operations practices, ensuring compliance with all applicable SHE policies procedures in line with set standards
• Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in all operations
• Functional management
• Governance: Ensure function adheres to Exxaro governance, policies, standards, statutory and legal compliance. Entrench a culture of discipline
• Functional excellence
• Adhere to functional policies, standards, guidelines, procedures, end-to-end processes, tools, templates etc.
• Assist in standardising, simplifying and speeding-up functional processes, eliminating duplication/bureaucracy.
• Apply functional best practices, promote sharing of best practices/knowledge.
• Assist in the execution of functional excellence initiatives
• People management
• Performance management: Adhere to performance management procedures.
• Exxaro culture/functional climate: Uphold the Exxaro culture and values within the function. Foster effective teamwork and unity.
• Asset Management
• Identify and provide support in evaluation, implementation and management of systems and processes to meet identified organisational needs
• Actively pursue exchange and preservation of information between operations and individuals to facilitate effective knowledge management according to organisational objectives
• Responsible for audit process and continuous improvement of all Insurance operations
• This includes keeping abreast of new leading practices, software developments and technologies in terms of Fixed Asset
• Compliance, Governance and Assurance
• Execute and implement responsibilities in adherence to applicable legislative and corporate governance principles
• Make informed decisions and recommendations regarding existing policies
• Manage risk and consequences of non-compliance
• Ensure all information and reporting has integrity and is in strict compliance with proper accounting principles and applicable laws
• Ensure policies and procedures are in alignment with government legislation and charters
• Financial Administration and Reporting
• Ensure effective analysis, interpretation and reporting of financial processes according to accounting principles
• Responsible for: Cost management and reporting; Month-end and year-end financial reporting; and Management reporting
• Ensure value creation and efficient financial business functioning
• dentify, and manage risks by conducting scheduled and unscheduled audits
• Management Accounting
• Responsible for budgeting, management accounting pack completion
• Conduct capital budgeting and play a key role in capital evaluation process
• Conduct scenario analysis and sales/profit and cash forecasting
• Maintain and expand business partner concept
• Manage target-setting function within designated area/applicable BU
• Conduct financial tracking of targets
• Financial Accounting
• Ensure effective analysis, interpretation and reporting of financial processes according to accounting principles.
• Responsible for: Month-end and year-end financial reporting and Management and Financial reporting.
• Ensure value creation and efficient financial business functioning.
• Identify, and manage risks by conducting scheduled and unscheduled audits.
• Provide financial accounting services on SAP to other CSD's and SBU's
• Achieve an acceptable grading from Internal Audit.
• Complete actual financial pack
• Complete Balance Sheet monthly recons and resolving of recon queries.
• Age analysis of debtors
• Manage annual company income tax returns
• Keep abreast with tax policy changes and liaise with relevant stakeholders to ensure general tax policies and regulations are executed within designated area •