Accountant Regional Maintenance
Energy, Chemicals
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Management Accounting or equivalent.
- 3 years relevant finance or management accounting experience.
- BC_Collaborates
- BC_Nimble Learning
- TC_Financial Analysis
- TC_Financial Planning and Reporting
- BC_Resourcefulness
- BC_Self-development
- TC_Data Collection and Analysis
- TC_Financial Accounting
- TC_Compliance Management
Responsibilities
- Execute and support management accounting processes within the Business Unit to ensure accurate, complete, and timely financial reporting and analysis.
- Provide reliable financial information, reporting, and financial administration support to cost centre owners and management.
- Ensure compliance with financial policies, accounting standards, governance requirements, and established business processes while contributing to continuous improvement initiatives.
- Prepare monthly management accounting reports within agreed timelines.
- Compile and analyse financial information for assigned cost centres and provide variance explanations for review by senior management.
- Review financial transactions and cost allocations for accuracy and compliance with accounting requirements.
- Process account hygiene corrections and prepare journals where required.
- Review costs for completeness and prepare accrual and provision journals in accordance with approved procedures.
- Prepare assigned general ledger reconciliations accurately and timeously for review.
- Validate general ledger accounts utilised for sundry payments and petty cash transactions.
- Process and support the recovery of FOB costs, intercompany costs, and external recoveries where applicable including related invoicing of work order related recoveries.
- Maintain cost centre and cost-type master data within SAP.
- Support cost centre owners with basic SAP and reporting queries.
- Attend to ad hoc reporting and information requests within agreed timelines.
- Assist cost centre owners with the preparation of budgets and forecasts in accordance with approved guidelines.
- Collect, verify, and consolidate financial information required for budgets and forecasts.
- Capture budget and forecast information within SAP and supporting systems.
- Perform variance analysis against budget, forecast, and prior-year results.
- Prepare budget and forecast submissions for review by the Manager: Management Accounting.
- Support the preparation of cash flow forecasts for assigned areas.
- Obtain and maintain supporting cost-driver information required for cost recovery calculations.
- Ensure budget and forecast data is complete, accurate, and submitted within required timelines.
- Verify that account hygiene requirements have been completed and that expenditure is correctly classified.
- Ensure accruals, provisions, and prepayments are accounted for accurately and completely.
- Prepare assigned disclosure schedules and supporting documentation for statutory and management reporting.
- Support audit requests and provide required financial information and reconciliations.
- Perform analytical review activities and investigate significant variances.
- Ensure all year-end and half-year-end deliverables are completed within communicated deadlines.
- Adhere to IFRS, Accounting Manual requirements, internal controls, and governance standards.
- Maintain complete and accurate supporting documentation for all financial activities.
- Identify and escalate financial risks, control weaknesses, or process deviations.
- Participate in process improvement initiatives within the management accounting environment.
- Support knowledge sharing and on-the-job training within the team.
- Foster effective collaboration with finance and operational stakeholders.
- Complete all assigned activities in accordance with agreed service levels and timelines.
