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Job title : Finance Accountant: Budgets
Job Location : Western Cape, Cape Town
Deadline : November 16, 2024
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Job Description
- Reporting tthe Head of commercial finance, the primary responsibility of this role is tassist with the annual as well as ad hoc budget process.
- This includes the preparation of various finance systems, budget loading and report preparation, as well as providing support tall stakeholders (operations, head office and executives).
- Additional responsibilities include, the timely preparation of monthly key performance indicators, ensuring the accuracy of all reported data, as well as various ad hoc reporting requirements.
Key Responsibilities
Weekly
- Weekly sales reporting tfinance, merchandise and executives
Monthly
- Generate monthly sales targets
- Perform detailed expense and variance analysis and produce various management reports if required
- Maintain all store related data in the general ledger
- Prepare financial and statistical information (KPI`s)
- Prepare hours and sales analysis for all stores by week
- Prepare store profitability report
Annual
- Prepare and calculate various required budget data
- Draft & distribute budget-related communication and manuals tbudget users
- Assist in the preparation of budget guidelines
- Assist in preparation, enhancement and testing of the budget system
- Manage the capital expenditure budget process, preparation of data for capture by users, analysis of received data and presentation of results
- Create budget summaries of expense and sales
- Load and reconcile budgets from our budgeting tour reporting system
Ad hoc
- Identify all new store openings and manage the budget process
- Perform various store data analysis as required by operations and head office
- Preparation of various quarterly and year end reporting requirements
- Manage store restructure changes in various systems
Qualifications and Experience
- B.Comm or Management/Cost Accounting or equivalent (South Africa)
- Accounting degree and part qualified CIMA or equivalent (United Kingdom)
- Strong system understanding
- Experience in budgets would be an advantage
- Experience in a retail finance environment would be an advantage
- Experience in Oracle would be an advantage
- Experience in Anaplan would be an advantage
Competencies
- Very detail orientated, able tmeet deadlines and solve problems independently
- Eager tlearn and grow
- Have a contribution mind-set
- General accounting, numerical and analytical ability
- Analytical, linear process thinker
- Ability tdeliver a high standard of work under pressure
- Ability tprioritise work appropriately
- Customer service orientated
- Good presentation and organisational skills
- Good communication skills
- Disciplined/structured personality
- Self-motivated and deadline driven
- Highly organised and able tmulti-task
- Fast-paced self-starter
- Ability tbuild and maintain good working relationships across the business
- Ability tinteract confidently with peers and superiors
- Good energy and attitude
- Team player
- Advanced excel knowledge, e.g. pivot tables, links, complicated formulas, large volumes of data
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