Revenue Accountant

SUMMARY:
Support the Revenue Manager

POSITION INFO:

Revenue Accountant
Finance

Accountable for specialist outputs and initiating changes in processes, policies, procedures, standards and services within inter-related functional areas of responsibility.

Job Purpose
This role is primarily responsible for supporting the Revenue Manager to maintain and monitor the implementation of a pricing strategy and to monitor margin impact so as to ensure profitable revenue growth across all geographies.
Key Accountabilities and Outputs

Revenue Accounting
Value-adding finance input to support the translation of strategic objectives into KPI's, financial targets and forecasts
Monitor and track profitability indicators and incorporate into revenue reporting
Monitor the impact of margin management practices such as promotions and markdowns
Ensure the availability of timely and accurate customer and sales information and reports
Providing analysis and delivering insight that links financial reports to business strategies
Participate and support the planning, budgeting and forecasting processes
Delivery in annual budgeting and forecasting processes by supporting cost centre owners to make informed financial decisions
Support and deliver periodic re-forecasts ensuring that latest operational drivers are understood and considered and highlight risks and opportunities
Drive continuous improvement through streamlining and optimising relevant operational practices, processes and systems
Ensure adherence to operational and financial frameworks of practices, processes, standards and controls
Manage cost drivers and take action to mitigate financial risk and address variances and discrepancies
Engaging with the HOF and Regional teams to improve Finance understanding of the business, including revenue, cost and value drivers.
Support cost centre owners to make informed financial decisions for initiatives aligned to the organisation's pricing strategy
Build and maintain financial models which accurately forecast project and business performance
Support and drive governance and control within the HOF and Regional Finance functions (including management of discounts & rebates)
Preparation of weekly and monthly income statements and other financial reports together with commentary explaining variances.
Accountable for monthly reconciliation of assigned GL accounts
Monitoring, tracking and processing customer claims/rebates on a daily basis and ensuring accuracy and validity
Supporting the Revenue manager with any work or project in line with the strategic finance teams' overall goals.
Adherence to the health, safety and environmental standards
Ensure adherence to site safety standards as head of Safety, Health and Environmental Committee
Ensure compliance to all relevant legislation

General
Conversant with relevant business information, policies, processes and procedures
Maintains expected performance standards
While Job Descriptions are written up for the purpose of a basic outline of the work and responsibilities associated with the Job, the Company encourages and expects all employees from time to time, to assist with work that may not be a direct part of their job description.

Qualifications and Experience

Bachelors Degree (3 years) / NQF level 7 (Essential)
Upto 3 years experience (Operational Execution)
SAP
Microsoft Office
PowerBi

Key Qualities
Critical Success Factors
Understanding of Management Accounting, Revenue & Mix, Standard Costing, Variance Analysis and Bills of Materials
Advanced Excel
Experience in FMCG environment within Finance an advantage

Business Partner experience
Engagement with multiple stakeholders

Communication

Written proposals or presentations aimed at changing practices within or across business units or selling a product or service to external clients
Problem Solving
Proactive identification of functional problems that do not have predetermined guidelines, routines or procedures for solution, determine cause and impact, and choose the best alternative to solve the problem based on previous experience and an understanding of the theory or practices underpinning the problem.
Relationships Maintained
Others outside of own work area but inside the organisation

Behavioural Competencies
Persuasiveness
Ability to persevere until an effective outcome is reached.
Takes into account another's viewpoint when stating a point.
Looks at all available avenues of influencing another's decision.
Looks for a win-win scenario when influencing another's decision.

Accountability
Accomplishes assigned tasks and goals: takes necessary actions to keep progress against objectives on track.
Prepares a roadmap for success.
Ensures that all who need to know, are clear about the plan.
Takes full responsibility for own actions and outcomes, including mistakes.
Always acts in the company's best interest, regardless of whether it is difficult or unpopular.
Ensures others are on track for achieving their goals.

Judgment and Decision Making
Able to gather information from a variety of sources.
Understands cause and effect relationships within data and interprets this to make competing, holistic decisions
Develops alternatives before making complex decisions
Looks for the most innovative, efficient and value adding solution when making a decision
Makes decisions in time and forecasts when decisions need to be made
Formulates a "big picture" understanding of the near-term impact of decisions (including the time and resources required to implement decision)
Evaluates the longer term busine