Management Accountant

Work With The Best

At Merchants our vision is to create meaningful and sustainable futures for our people, by driving a culture of continuous learning through the many skills and development programmes we offer, which are designed to develop talent and fulfil potential.

We place our people at the centre of everything we do and believe that the way you treat your customers and people differentiates us.

By joining the team, you will be relentless in delivering easy, positive, brilliant experiences for our customers. You will have the opportunity to learn from over 35 years’ experience in managing contact centre operations across the globe. We are backed by Dimension Data – a global specialist IT service and solution provider, and NTT – one of the largest telecommunication companies in the world.

Are you ready to take the next step in your career?

The purpose of this role is to take responsibility for all operational level accounting functions, including monthly management accounts, budget and forecast setting and assisting with decision making around projects in the organization from a management accounting perspective.

What would make you a good fit for this role?

Requirements:

• Minimum partial completion of BCom degree
• Completed BCom degree
• 3-5 years financial experience in a services industry with annuity revenue
• ERP system experience
• Accpac and related products

What you'll be doing

Management Accounting

• Prepares for and executes month-end and year-end management accounting procedures
• Analyses monthly, quarterly and annual financial impact of any variations from actual performance to budget and forecast
• Prepares month-end variance commentary and supports operational management in finance results reviews
• Compiles required accounting packs for distribution and decision making
• Calculates the financial impact of penalty framework, gain-share models or service credits.
• Produces valid, accurate and complete financial billing with related supporting documentation and signed change controls.
• Produces all documentation related to inflationary pricing adjustments on client or vendor contracts
• Manages and resolves management accounting queries
• Provides support around finance processes, systems and procedures

Financial Analyses, Reporting and Risk Assessment

• Monitors financial risks or opportunities based on client or vendor contracts
• Analyses key financial indicators in reports, in order to identify any variances and provide insight into the reasons behind it
• Performs sensitivity analyses on operational performance to highlight any potential risks on the financial standing, profitability or investments
• Demonstrates financial and business acumen in supporting decision making in the business
• Produces business cases and scenario based modelling based on key assumptions to ensure an effective ROI

Co-ordinates budgets and forecasts

• Documents and inputs assumptions in preparing budgets and forecasts to ensure
• effective budgetary/forecast management
• Resolves and queries around budgeting/forecasting made by the business units