Job Description

To ensure the efficient functioning of the South Africa Finance function, coordinate and consolidate the process of management reporting that provides accurate and useful information to management to assist in planning, organizing, and controlling the efficient running of the organization whilst ensuring that financial practices are controlled in line with statutory and professional prescriptions. The role will also provide first line support to all the Fertilizer SA operations in improving and optimizing their business processes.
Qualifications

• Bachelor of Commerce Accounting Degree
• Chartered Accountant

Experience

• 5 Years relevant experience
• 3 years Financial Reporting experience
• Experience in analysis and balance sheet recons will be advantageous
• Advanced experience with using Excel formulas and functions
• MS Office (MS Excel, Advanced)
• ERP System (Pastel Evolution, Microsoft AX Dynamics)

DutiesDirect and Indirect Management of Staff:

• Responsible for the recruitment, management and development of Senior Financial Accountants within the Reporting department
• Responsible for the management of the individual Omnia Fertilizer SA operations finance teams to ensure sound service delivery to customers
• Responsible for ensuring that applicable training and development needs are identified within the individual Omnia Fertilizer SA operations finance teams
• Responsible to ensure that effective tracking systems are in place to ensure that work is performed in accordance with instructions and/or guidelines, and to enhance productivity and ensure appropriate motivation and satisfaction levels of staff

Management Reporting:

• Responsible for the consolidation and analysis of management accounts, assessing reasonableness, and providing commentary as a source of management information
• Responsible for maintaining 5-year histories
• Perform thorough GP and Expense analysis, provide commentary.
• Timely preparation and review of balance sheet reconciliation. Oversee the process for the completeness of the preparation of balance sheet recons
• Assist with day-to-day activities of the finance reporting function
• Oversee the intercompany reconciliation and confirmation process
• Responsible for generating, maintaining, and analysing statistics as a source of management information
• Responsible for consolidating Board Reports and preparing required information for the meeting
• Responsible for monitoring and analysing actuals vs. forecasts and budgets
• Responsible for the continued improvement of the financial reporting process
• Maintenance of all changes on all reporting files
• Resolving all reporting queries raised by management
• Responding to all queries raised by the Group Division
• Manage and develop the Reporting Accountants,
• Ensure accurate, timeous and complete financial reporting,
• Provides performance and variance analysis,
• Analysis and communication of Net working Capital,
• Responsible for completion of Audit Packs at half year and year end,
• Support compilation, communication and submission of budgets and forecasts,
• Effective support on Tax for the Agriculture and MOS divisions,
• Provides IFRS and technical support,
• Manage the Review of balance sheet recons,
• Co-ordinate Monthly Balance Sheet Reviews
• Manage External Audit process

Process Improvement:

• Responsible for monitoring, exploring, and investigating the functioning of financial systems, practices, and procedures with the view to identifying inefficiencies that hamper service delivery.
• In this process, responsible for establishing end user satisfaction by assessing their needs
• Responsible for conducting benchmarking and best practice analyses in order to gain an overview of developmental or optimisation possibilities
• On the basis of these analyses, responsible for accessing or new implementations which could lead to substantial improvements in business efficiencies, including speed of operations, resources required to perform work and customer satisfaction
• Responsible for ensuring that systems are designed to operate in cost effective ways to maximise the competitiveness and profitability of the business
• In pursuance of meeting statutory, professional, and corporate governance criteria, responsible for seeking ways to design systems so that errors, omissions, or deviations can be easily identified, and corrective actions easily implemented
• In the process of implementing financial value chain improvements, responsible for ensuring that sound change management practices are adhered to in order to ensure the acceptance and continuity of the new implementations

Job CompetenciesCore Competencies:

• Accountability
• Attention to detail
• Client Centricity
• Initiative
• Integrity
• Teamwork
• Organizational awareness
• Assertive
• Resilience
• Flexibility and Adaptability

GeneralBudgeting and Forecasting:

• Responsible for drawing up the departmental budgets in line with the strategic objectives of the function
• Responsible for monthly management of the budget by monitoring departmental income statements and the general ledger.
• Responsible for sound financial management by ensuring that costs are allocated to appropriate cost codes
• Responsible for reporting on the financial position of the department to account for under and over expenditures

Business Unit Functions:

• Query management with these operations
• Provide guidance and assistance to all finance teams
• Investigate ways of improving and streamlining business processes
• Collect and consolidate all Cash Flow Forecasts on a monthly basis from all Omnia Fertilizer SA operations
• Collect and consolidate all Capital Expenditure Reports on a quarterly basis from all Omnia Fertilizer SA operations as well as lInsurance policy requirements on an annual basis from all Omnia Fertilizer SA operations

Audit:

• Availability to auditors during audit in respect of relevant responsibilities
• Provide support to all Omnia Fertilizer SA operations in preparing audit packs and in resolving audit queries
• Ensure management accounts and audit pack balance after audit process is finalized
• Coordinate annual internal audit process with all Omnia Fertilizer SA operations and the internal auditors

Omnia Holdings