Senior Management Accountant - Lephalale at Exxaro Resources

PURPOSE:

•  To execute the business partnering role for the Business Unit.
•  Responsible for the management accounting function including the planning, budgets and forecasts.
•  Interpret the financial results, monitor cash flow, capital expenditure programmes and management reporting systems development.

Minimum Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS:

• BCom Management Accounting (Essential/Minimum)
• Certificate First Line Management (Recommended/Desirable)

EXPERIENCE: 

•  3-5 years Relevant Accounting, Finance or related.    Essential/Minimum    Operational

REQUIREMENTS: 

• Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)
• Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)

Duties & Responsibilities
Business Performance and Operations    

•  Prepare internal management reports
•  Interpret and integrate information with organisational needs and operational strategic objectives
•  Provide inputs into general accounting policies and procedures
•  Implement performance management processes
•  Execute capital process
•  Execute cost management process
•  Execute budget and forecasting activities
•  Track achievement of business case, alignment to and measurement against set targets for designated responsibility area
•  Manage internal and external (as applicable) relations with all relevant stakeholders
•  Align various functions in portfolio (Finance, Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Business Unit Departments)
•  Establish and/or implement business partner thinking

Compliance, Governance and Assurance    

•  Execute and implement responsibilities in adherence to legislative and corporate governance principles
•  Manage risk and consequences of non-compliance
•  Ensure inputs into and compliance with policies and procedures are in alignment with all relevant legislation and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
•  Execute Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) approval within SAP PS Module and CO Module

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

Functional Management    

•  Governance: Ensure function adheres to governance, policies, standards, statutory and legal compliance. Entrench a culture of discipline
•  Maintain high performance standards

Management Accounting    

•  Analyse, interpret and report on cost and cost management within designated areas of financial responsibility
•  Track and communicate financial targets to core areas
•  Financial budgeting and forecasting on cost and capital
•  Ensure and follow up on capitalization of all assets
•  Conduct scenario analysis and sales/profit and cash forecasting
•  Execute business partner role

People Management    

•  Performance management: Adhere to performance management procedures
•  Company culture/functional climate: Uphold the Company culture and values within the function. Foster effective teamwork and unity

Safe and Healthy Work Environment    

•  Maintain and ensure a healthy environment, safe operations and practices, ensuring compliance with all applicable Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) policies and procedures in line with set standards
•  Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in all operations

Behavioural Alignment    
Demonstrates the following:

•  Creativity, collaboration, sociable and awareness to the ecosystem
•  Stewardship, accountability, ability to develop trust, safety conscious and ethical
•  Ability to respond quickly to business needs/agility, flexibility, continuous learning, innovation and proven ability to experiment on creative business solutions
•  Ability to be inclusive, eagerness for multiple skills, embraces multiple cultures, accepts different approaches and be human-centric/empathetic
•  Results oriented, quality driven, excellence, entrepreneurial abilities, efficient and effective