Senior Management Accountant
Job description
About the job Senior Management Accountant
Minimum Requirements:
- Qualified Chartered accountant with minimum 1-2 years experience OR
- BCom Accounting / CIMA qualification with 4-5 years experience.
- Experience in Manufacturing would be preferred but is not a must.
- Sound knowledge of IFRS & Tax.
Responsibilities:
- Will be responsible for the full Finance Function.
- Processing month end JNLs.
- Performing month end Balance sheet reconciliations.
- Analyse P&L, comparing to budget & prior year for any discrepancies.
- Assist various departments with any queries.
- Be willing to go into the factory on occasions to understand the issues at hand.
- Submit month end results and answer any head office queries.
- Ensure all transactions are in accordance with IFRS.
- Perform month end revaluation of stock from standard cost to actual.
- Assist sales in determining the cost of new stock items.
- Analyse value add / GP %s of items sold to determine where price increases are needed.
- Do machine rates updates.
- Monitor operating working capital of the company through:
- Inventory: Monitor slow moving / aged stock.
- Receivables: Work closely with ACR controller to drive down overdues.
- Payables: Work closely with ACP controllers to pay as late as possible.
- Assist with cash flow forecasting.
- Attend year end stock count.
- Prepare the full budget for the following year.
- Clear Internal audit recommendations.