Coca-Cola Beverages Zambia
Job Title: Management Accountant
Function: Finance
Company: Coca-Cola Beverages Zambia
Job Description
This position will be responsible for Producing high quality, timely and compliant financial information, gathering and analysing financial information for internal, the preparation of pricing value chains and Product costing. The incumbent will also be responsible for annual budgets and quarterly revised estimates, Appraisal of the company capital investment plan discounted cash flows (DCF) and the evaluation of the company’s performance using key financial ratios. Forecasting to assist business planning and decision-making and govern the chart of accounts, policies and procedures.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
- Producing high quality, accurate, timely and compliant financial information
- Defining and execution key financial policies
- Managing company chart of accounts
- Owner of process and solution ensuring compliance to amend chart of accounts information
- Ensure Country operates within Chart of Authority
- Business process documentation and updating (SOPs)
- Delivering statutory reporting requirements
- Preparing Annual Financial Statements and manage interface with Group Office
- Accounting and cost control; cost canter accounting
- Provide the FP&A team with board and statutory reporting requirements
- Staff development through coaching and training
- Budgeting and reporting
- Advising on strategic planning and business planning
- Tax compliance
- Creating financial statements for internal and external company requirements
- Providing financial analysis and forecasting
- Supporting auditing projects
Skills, Experience & Education
- Bachelor’s degree from a recognized university
- Full ACCA / ZICA/CIMA with 3 – 5 years relevant financial experience preferably in an FMCG environment.
- Experience in managing policies and the chart of accounts
- SAP/MSD ERP system (or similar) experience
- Strong knowledge on statutory requirements
- Solid knowledge of basic and advanced accounting and financial principles and practices
- Excellent knowledge of cost accounting and reporting
- Excellent verbal / analytical reasoning ability
- Foster and cultivate business opportunities and partnerships
- Exceptional accounting and reporting skills
- Goal-orientated and committed to delivering quality outputs
- Good self-management practices and able to work well in a team
- Ability to work with people at various levels of the business
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to prioritise, manage complexity and deal with multiple stakeholders
- Ability to manage across multiple countries to meet deadlines.
- Critical and analytical thinking
- Strong attention to detail, Organisation skills, Problem-solving skills and Communication skills.