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Management Accountant
Mayfly Agri (Pty) LtdJohannesburg, South Africa30+ days ago
Job descriptionConducting in-depth financial analysis to support strategic and operational decision-making. Identifying trends, risks, and opportunities through data-driven insights, including customer and product profitability. Developing and maintaining financial models to evaluate business scenarios and support planning, including the development of forecast models, EVA models, and similar. Collaborating with business units to align financial plans with operational objectives. Leading the preparation and analysis of preliminary monthly financial results to provide early visibility of performance prior to formal close, focusing attention on key areas for improvement. Coordinating with key stakeholders to gather inputs, validate assumptions, and ensure completeness and accuracy of early financial data. Analyzing and communicating key drivers of performance, material variances, and emerging risks or opportunities based on preliminary and final results. Ensuring that flash reporting output such as analysis of the front-end regions, in-house wholesale profit, bad debt provisioning, and rebate realization are aligning with final month-end results and supporting effective decision-making. Leading the annual budgeting and periodic forecasting processes across multiple entities, including developing and implementing various forecasting timelines. Consolidating and analyzing budget submissions to ensure alignment with strategic and operational goals. Supporting long-term financial planning and scenario analysis as part of budgeting and forecasting processes, including continually updating models to reflect key business changes. Collaborating with business units to gather inputs, validate assumptions, and ensure accuracy. Monitoring performance against budget and forecast, identifying key variances and trends. Providing FP&A analysis, interpretation, and support to the business, including variance analyses and financial dashboards. Analyzing customer and product profitability and interpreting results to drive decisions toward more profitable outcomes. Providing financial insights and commentary to support decision-making, particularly around agent profitability, EVA, and RONA generation. Coordinating the identification or escalation of issues and advising finance leadership on potential business or operational risks, while developing and implementing proposed solutions. Maintaining a robust internal control environment, with a specific focus on credit vetting. Partnering directly with finance and business leaders to collaborate on metrics, goals, and business reviews. Supporting ad hoc financial analysis requests from senior management. Identifying and understanding business challenges while proposing and creating solutions. Ensuring a robust internal control environment is implemented and continuously monitoring its effectiveness. Diving deeply into financial data and becoming a subject matter expert to provide further insights. Identifying and researching variances from forecasts, budgets, and prior-year figures across expenses, revenues, and material costs, while proactively identifying opportunities for improvement. Creating presentations that deliver insightful analysis, highlight required actions, and effectively frame decisions for Board and Management meetings. Establishing and monitoring robust internal controls around pricing, credit vetting, business expenses, and cost management. Assessing and evaluating internal control performance and reporting findings to the Head of Finance. Maintaining and ensuring the accuracy of financial master data, including GL accounts, cost centers, and product hierarchies. Collaborating with IT and operations to ensure consistency and integrity of data across systems. Supporting data governance initiatives and contributing to system improvement projects. Investigating and resolving discrepancies in balances in collaboration with supply chain and operations teams, particularly in relation to inventory. Ensuring reconciliations are completed in line with internal control policies and audit standards. Contributing to the continuous improvement of reconciliation processes and documentation. Supporting the development of direct and indirect reports through coaching and on-the-job training. Training business and support functions in various finance-related areas. Supporting management with ad hoc projects and requests as required.
Minimum requirements for the role :
- Must have a relevant tertiary Finance qualification
- Minimum 7 years experience in a management accountant or similar role
- Knowledge of International Financial report standards (IFRS) is essential
- Proficient with MS Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
- Must have knowledge of financial policies, procedures and processes
The successful candidate will be responsible for :
Please note that subsequent to the screening and shortlisting process, all further communication will be entered into only with the shortlisted candidates. If you do not receive any feedback from us within 2 weeks of applying, please consider your application unsuccessful
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