Job Description
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Preparing reports, budgets, commentaries and financial statements
- Assisting with financial administration and internal controls
- Stay up to date with technological advances and accounting software to be used for financial purposes
- Understand and adhere to financial regulations and legislation.
- Provide insightful information and expectations to senior executives to aid in long-term and short-term decision making
- Seek out methods for minimising financial risk to the company
- Research and analyse financial reports and market trends
- Assisting with Monitoring of the day-to-day financial operations within the company, such as payroll, invoicing, and other transactions
- The key performance indicators of a cost management accountant are required to measure and monitor in terms of the following:
- Quality, yield and lead times of the operational processes.
- Adherence to the operations plan.
- Unplanned maintenance.
- Accuracy, speed and efficiency of transactional processing and reporting.
- Internal customer service delivery and satisfaction.
- Implementation of change through projects and initiatives, which are measured in terms of budget, time and scope.
- Forecast accuracy.
- Input, testing, implementation and adoption of better IT solutions.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree / Higher National Diploma in Accountancy.
- Membership of relevant professional body (ICAN)
Skills & Attitude:
- Good oral and written communication skills
- The ability to work as part of a team
- Excellent analytical and numerical abilities
- Sound business knowledge
- Accuracy and an eye for detail.
- Time Management
- Credibility
- Initiative
- Interpersonal skills
- Problem solving skills
- Organizational skills
- Interpersonal Skills.