Accountant

Skill Farm Members Are Invited to Apply for the Following Role:

• Analyse activities, products, and services of all cost centers to identify critical cost drivers in collaboration with business managers.
• Provide input into costing projects involving a segment, business unit, function, or country/region (as applicable)
• Generate systems and tools that enable line managers to understand the cost drivers of all activities in the area
• Influence creative business solutions, optimize processes, and inform strategic decisions through cost modeling and data analysis
• Build, run, and execute cost models and provide required reports for business
• Provide feedback to the business on monthly and ad hoc analysis and reports from the cost models to support decision-making
• Build and calculate cost models and work within established work and service processes
• Prevent wastage and identify process improvements to contain and reduce costs within their area.
• Conduct reviews and scenario planning to provide guidance on the budgetary process in terms of spending and forecast adjustments and analyze previous data to motivate future budget requirements in line with cost models to be run and distributed.
• Source relevant data in line with the operating process, based on specific model and inventory requirements, and continue to improve the data gathering process through continuous efficiencies and automation
• Once data has been made available, create a dashboard to track inputs received against deadlines to completion as well as the quality thereof, or error rate
• Maintain and expand a database of contacts who can provide specific inputs, ensuring contacts are aware of their role in correcting data issues raised and providing signed-off inputs for the model runs
• Maintain and update existing measured object and cost codes
• Maintain and update existing principles and drivers together with inputs from the finance business partners on the selected portal

Qualification:

• Minimum qualification: Relevant Degree in Finance, Costing, Mathematics or similar
• Preferred qualification: Relevant postgraduate degree, Financial or analytical modeling, qualifications, CIMA or ACCA