Senior Accountant - Management at De Beers Group

Job Description:

The role resides within DBCM Finance and participates in the delivery of the following areas:

• Management and delivery of all DBCM Budgets and Forecasts,
• Information provision to Senior Management, including all management reporting related to actuals, budgets and forecasts, 
• Policy governance for example intercompany services, etc.,
• Holding budget holders to account for example through actively monitoring costs, accuracy of revenue, etc.,
• Participate in Driving Value initiatives and implementation thereof.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Managing and consolidation of all budget and forecast processes across all DBCM business areas (advisory, service, monitoring, auditing authority)
• Managing employment costs and headcount budgets, forecasts and actuals across all DBCM business areas (advisory, monitoring, auditing authority)
• Managing the intra departmental charges process in respect of budgets, forecast and actuals across all DBCM business areas (advisory, monitoring, auditing)
• Managing revenue budgets, forecasts and actuals and within relevant governance (Anglo Service Policy) parameters across all DBCM business areas (advisory, monitoring, auditing)
• Transfer pricing (advisory, service, monitoring, auditing authority)
• Management and Board reporting covering all DBCM business areas (advisory, monitoring, auditing authority)
• Participate in Driving Value initiatives analysis, evaluation and solution recommendation as well as the implementation thereof (advisory, monitoring, auditing)

Qualifications:

• Relevant Finance/ Accounting Bachelors Degree, CIMA or equivalent

EXPERIENCE    

• Financial and management accounting experience
• Managing budgeting and forecasting processes for a considerable number of divisions
• Experience with entities providing a variety of services, following strict guidelines for the calculation of revenue
• Experience in employment cost budgeting, forecasting and analysis
• SAP

SKILLS/ COMPETENCIES:

Knowledge:

• Financial and management accounting
• Policies – various Group and company policies
• Systems – SAP
• Applications – Excel advanced

Skills:

• Managerial - be able to manage forecast and budget processes across various DBCM business areas
• Organisational skills – be able to coordinate forecast and budget processes across various DBCM business areas
• Interpersonal and communication skills – dealing effectively and professionally with budget holders, Heads of Departments, Directors, Management, external auditors and finance colleagues
• Technical skills – provide advice to budget holders with reference to service policy principles
• Analytical – ability to analyse large volumes of data, reporting on the most relevant information
• Driving Value – ability to assess and analyse processes for inefficiencies and provide an effective solution. Ability to implement business processing re-engineering solutions