Management Accountant at AON

The Job

• Aon South Africa has an exciting opportunity for a temporary Management Accountant in the FP&A department. The role of a FP&A Management Accountant includes being responsible for forecasting, budgeting and management accounting whilst being a strategic partner for the business.

Responsibilities

• Fully contributes to the commercial development of the business by working with senior management teams, external third partes and other stakeholders as requried
• Monitors and reports progress on all key business initiatives, particularly revenue generation and provides monthly updates to all the relevant stakeholders
• Develops an in-depth understanding of the key premium and revenue generators and contribute to new ways of revenue growth
• Ensures that revenue recognition policies, reporting requirements and financial control procedures are in place within the business.
• Assumes ownership of the month end close, in terms of ensuring that actuals come in as per forecast and a reporting process that meets the information needs of local, regional and global stakeholders
• Month-end reporting, analysing actuals versus forecast and adding commentary
• Embeds an effective planning and forecasting process within the business to ensure forecasts are robust; providing timely and accurate financial and non-financial management information to key stakeholders
• Works with the CFO and business heads to create the annual budget at a detailed (cost centre) level
• Continuously develops and implements key performance measures, including trend analysis and other operational data to provide insightful and challenging contribution to the overall running of the business
• Credit control follow up with the respective business units
• Review on processes and procedures within the business and suggestion on improvement where applicable
• Ad hoc projects as required

Qualifications

• Be in possession of a Grade 12 (Matric)
• Must be in possession of a degree in Accounting
• An Honours degree in Accounting will be an added advantage
• A qualified CA or CIMA will be an added advantage.

Knowledge

• An outstanding understanding of finance and accounting
• A working knowledge of risk analysis methodologies
• A good understanding of the applicable legislative environment governing the industry.
• A comprehensive knowledge of the South African and international short-term insurance markets would be advantageous
• An in-depth strategic knowledge of industry and business strategies and company goals would be advantageous.

Skills and Attributes

• Well-developed communication skills
• Well-developed presentation skills
• The ability to work in and with teams
• The ability to work independently and gaining an in-depth knowledge of the business
• The ability to persuade and negotiate stakeholders at all levels
• Well-developed analytical skills.

Experience.

• Must have 5 years or more experience in a FP&A or similar role.