Accountant, AP II

‎1. JOB DETAILS:
Position Title: Accountant: Financial Management
Broad Band: M09: Professional
Talent Pipeline Layer: Manage Self Operational (MS)
‎2. OVERALL JOB PURPOSE:
Prepare and provide timely financial and statistical information to
business managers so that they can make day-to-day and short-term managerial
decisions
‎3. QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:
Qualification:
B Com (or relvant Degree including Accounting)
or Incomplete B Com
Certified MA (preferred)
Experience:
‎2 Years (B Com)
‎5 Years (Incomplete B Com)
Skills:

• Sound working knowledge and understanding of Ma 'aden codes, regulation, rules, procedures


• Effective analytical and problem solving skills


• Good writing and reporting skills


• Following rules, regulations, procedures and instructions


• Effective self time management, planning and organising skills


• Coping with pressures and setbacks


• Sound finance data processing and reporting


• Critical thinking


• Advanced ability to gather information and accumulate data


• Advanced knowledge of finance principles


• Results driven


• Proficient attention to detail


• Curios and innovative


• Ability to adapt and respond to change


• Competent in using applicable software and/or systems


• Sound presentation skills


• Sound interpersonal skills
  ‎4. KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
  Focus Area
  Get results through individual contribution, effort and self management
  Operational / Functional
  ‎1. Consistently achieve all delivery targets (e.g. tons, products,
  services)
  ‎2. Ensure all work is met through quality results (agreed standards,
  quality, quantity and due dates)
  ‎3. Cost awareness and control
  ‎4. Resources utilization and efficiency through optimizing available
  resources and contained cost
  ‎5. Consistently achieve all HSE targets


• Produce monthly management accounts for business units, proactively identify problems and follow up on corrective actions


• Interrogate monthly/quarterly rolling forecasts and perform variance analysis between budget, forecast and actuals produced


• Analyse business performance against approved operating budgets


• Ensure compliance to audit and regulatory requirements


• Coordinate and facilitate the business planning and budgeting process with customers:


• Consolidation, analysis and reporting on budgets


• Presentation developed and presented


• Consolidate annual income budgets and analyses actual results against budget


• Analyse financial and operating information, identify trends and analyse and present opportunities to key stake holders


• Analyse business performance against approved operating budgets and forecast over longer term time span and to assist business planning and decision-making


• Gather and analyse financial information for internal use


• Assume responsibility of accounting procedures


• Analyse the company 's performance using key financial data


• Conduct risk assessment and advise on ways to minimise risk


• Advise on problems and suggest improvements


• Perform accurate allocations and recoveries of inter-departmental costs

Leadership
‎1. Understand, support and live the Ma'aden vision, values and goals
‎2. Takes accountability for personal improvement, personal development,
skills development and effectiveness
‎3. Takes responsibility, agree on and review personal performance goals and
achievement of high performance goals
‎4. Plan, organize, control and report own work and consistently ensure that
work is completed to plan
‎5. Regularly achieves the application/compliance of policies, practices,
standards, procedures and methods
‎6. Resolve work obstacles and issues positively through problem solving and
decision making
* Apply and share learning experience at the workplace
* Set and work towards own performance targets and goals as per performance agreement
* Share new ideas regarding work
* Project a positive image of the department
* Question current way of doing things, and improve on personal work processes
Relationships
‎1. Fully understand and deliver on customers/partner needs and
expectations through positive working relationships with all related
stakeholders (internal and external)
‎2. Consistently maintain constructive relationships within the team and
with all stakeholders through relationships and collaboration
‎3. Team and customer communication
‎4. Continuous improvement through sharing new ideas and implementing them
* Develop effective manager and peer working relationships
* Develop healthy and constructive communication with team and colleagues
* Build customer relationships in order to understand their needs
* Liaise with external and internal auditors and co-ordinate audit reports
‎5. COMPETENCIES:
Technical/Functional
* Sound knowledge of business/functional processes
* Advanced knowledge of cost accounting and reporting
* Advanced knowledge or risk analysis, budgeting and forecasting
* Working knowledge of financial software and MS Office
* Advanced data gathering and analysis
* Sound competence in financial operations
* Working knowledge of legislative and regulatory requirements (e.g. SOX)
* Sound knowledge of internal control procedures
* Sound knowledge of the establishment of financial plans, budgets and forecasts and their associated processes
Leadership
* Developing self
* Embrace digitalisation within the function
* Networking and collaboration
Safety
* Safety advocate - anywhere and everywhere
* Advanced awareness and understanding of HSE rules and procedures
* Concern for own wellbeing and that of others
* Ability to pro-actively identifying safety hazards and act accordingly