Rainbow Chicken - Management Accountant

Role Purpose:

To provide regional management accounting support and insight across the Business.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of a National Diploma in Accounting/Management Accounting
• Preferably a CIMA or CA (SA) or studying towards

Required Experience:

• 5 years management accounting experience (articled or otherwise)

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Management accounting principles and practices
• SAP (an advantage)
• Excel
• Budget management principles and practices
• Business strategies, targets, processes and economics
• Knowledge of financial and accounting principles
• Verbal and written communication
• Interpersonal
• Logical thinking
• Problem solving
• Decision-making
• Analytical thinking
• An understanding of multiple key performance indicators, inter-relationship and bottom line sensitivity

Key Responsibilities

Preparation and Reconciliation

• Conducting an initial review, reallocation, and accrual of necessary GL expenditures monthly.
• Assistance with month-end stocktake (where applicable) and investigate any material variances on all storage locations to ensure accurate GL expenditure on all materials and assets.
• Investigating, interrogating, and analyzing core variances and trends to support the presentation of an accurate and informative set of results.
• Preparation of weekly KPI presentation and input onto KPI file.
• Preparation and follow up of CAPEX, EFT, Contract Grower and ADHOC Workflows to ensure timeous completion.

Reporting

• Engaging with senior regional management through the presentation of the monthly commercial report and individual follow-up sessions.
• Assistance with the preparation of month end reports.

Information and Data Management

• Ensure team members accurately and regularly capture data into the information system to enable access to reliable data and reporting for trend analysis and decision making.
• Share relevant data with management teams to enable reliable business decision making.

Cost Control

• Assistance with the analysis of costs against budget/forecast and investigate variances monthly.

Team Coordination

• Take ownership and accountability for tasks and activities and demonstrate effective self-management in terms of planning, prioritising and self-development.
• Ensure organizational policies and auditing procedures are adhered to.
• Inform relevant parties in the event of tasks or deadlines not met, the potential risks thereof and provide appropriate resolution.
• Liasing with external suppliers to ensure timeous receipting of invoices and to ensure correct flow of documents through the process.
• Overseeing and managing the cost administrator and performance of individual.
• Facilitate and ensure effective cross functional engagements and duties.