Management Accountant at IDC

• To provide comprehensive cost and management accounting support to the Industrial Zones Programme (IZP), ensuring the effective coordination of budgeting processes, financial planning, expenditure control, compliance, and financial reporting.
• The role is pivotal in supporting the implementation of the IZP pilot phase and ensuring alignment with IDC financial governance standards

Job Description
Strategic Alignment

• Ensure operational expenditure (OPEX) budgets align with the IZP strategy.
• Provide professional financial guidance and advisory support to programme leadership and cost centre owners.

Functional Operations Management

• Assist with the preparation of operating expenditure budgets.
• Ensure that correct data is uploaded on SAP.
• Monthly monitoring of performance against budgets and conduct relevant cost analysis.
• Provide expert and professional advisory service to cost center owners.
• Prepare, review, and interpret performance reports for year-end projections.
• Ensure accounting activities comply with statutory, professional, and ethical standards.
• Prepare monthly performance presentations for governance structures.
• Maintain and update systems and procedures.
• Report any Irregular, Fruitless and Wasteful Expenditure (IFWE) incidents.
• Create and maintain cost and profit master data on SAP.
• Ensure timely processing of invoices and accurate completion of invoice registers.
• Receive goods as per order and verify quantity, price, and description.
• Attend to ad-hoc financial support requests.

Learning and Growth

• Innovative and continuous improvement on new ways of doing the work.
• Take ownership of personal development.
• Promote/participate in knowledge sharing with team members.

Stakeholder Management

• Provide support and professional advice to management.

Reporting

• Monthly and quarterly reporting of operational expenditure to stakeholders and governance structures.
• Annual budget reporting to relevant stakeholders and governance structures.
• Ensuring compliance with statutory requirements.

Qualification and Experience
Qualifications

• Minimum: Bachelor’s Degree in Finance/Management Accounting or equivalent
• Advantageous: Postgraduate degree in Finance/Management Accounting

Roles and Responsibilities
Experience and Knowledge

• Minimum of 2 - 5 years’ experience in the field of Finance and Management Accounting
• Experience in budgeting and forecasting and cost accounting and cost control
• Basic understanding of PFMA aligned reporting
• Experience with SA and budget loading on SAP
• Exemplary self-leadership.
• Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment.
• Effective, versatile and action oriented.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities while building effective relationships.
• Extremely organized and persistent, with drive and determination to achieve goals.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Advanced Excel and PowerPoint.
• Attention to detail
• Communication and presentation skills
• Time management
• Systems analysis

Deadline:16th Januay,2026