Purpose of the Role:

The incumbent will be responsible to provide commercial decision support across the business including providing accurate financial information to guide operations in their decision making on an operational level, with the responsibility of budgeting, forecasting, business planning and financial modelling. Furthermore, the incumbent will need to develop a work culture that fosters application competence, service excellence, customer focus and business process knowledge.

Education, Experience, Knowledge Skills required:

• Relevant Accounting Qualification (NQF6) including articles advantageous
• At least 3-5 years' experience as a management accountant managing a large portfolio
• 2-3 years' experience in a management capacity
• Ability to form close working relationships with business stakeholders - communicate effectively, gaining their trust and influencing them where necessary
• Strong business planning, budgeting, forecasting and financial modelling skills
• Ability to quickly analyse and manipulate large quantities of financial data from multiple sources, drawing out key matters of significance
• Ability to assess internal control environment, identify weaknesses and implement corrective actions
• Excellent communication and presentation skills (including power point)
• Strong MS Office Suite skills (Advanced Excel) and SAP Finance and Management Accounting modules

Functional Tasks:

• Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting
• Measure, analyse, report business performance and provide key inputs for the monthly reporting pack;
• Financial modelling and analysis of contract, sector, and regional profitability and establishing turnaround plans for the Empact division.
• Day to day management of the finance team
• Debtors and creditors management
• Management and performance of the complete month end process
• Site visits and performance of audits at sites including preparing audit reports and implementation of corrective actions
• Monitoring of internal control environment implementation of improvements where necessary
• Fleet management
• Ad hoc Financial tasks / projects

Business Consulting and Partnership with:

• Procurement department with reporting, KPI Tracking, supplier increase sign-off and financial analysis,
• Function Heads, to understand their business drivers, commercial terms, and manage all financial performance and analysis
• Lead management through the annual forecasting, budget-setting and management process,

Service Management and Continuous Improvement:

• Drive and/or contribute to the achievement of P&D targets and key performance indicators, operational level agreements and service levels to stakeholders.
• Continuously monitor and introduce areas for improvement by acquiring and providing feedback from/to the customers and tracking performance statistics.

Planning & Controlling:

• Manage costs within budget expenditure guidelines.

People Management:

• Provide guidance, feedback, and reinforcement to sector/regional team members regarding development needs and opportunities, and secure resources to support development efforts as it relates to finance processes.
• Oversee the training and development ensure competency in performing finance processing.