Management Accountant

Empact Group is looking for a highly engaged, proactive Management Accountant to join their Centralised Finance team. Key to this role is supporting the GM: Finance in providing finance support to operations and functional heads. The incumbent will be expected to become an invaluable partner to the business stakeholders as assigned and will be their contact for all matters concerning financial performance and analysis; continuously seeking opportunities for improvements to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the Finance team. The incumbent will be responsible to provide commercial decision support across the business including providing accurate financial information to guide operations in their decision making on an operational level, with the responsibility of budgeting, forecasting, business planning and financial modelling. Furthermore, the incumbent will need to develop a work culture that fosters application competence, service excellence, customer focus and business process knowledge. *Functional Tasks*·    Provide support to Operations for:o  Planning, Budgeting and Forecastingo  Performance reporting and analytics:-      Measure, analyse and report business performance for food services, providing key inputs for the monthly reporting pack;-      Review performance with management;-      Develop action plans, re-allocate resources, & update forecast;-      Maintain common performance language and definitions; and-      Provide on-going/ad-hoc reporting & analytical support.o  Financial modelling and analysis of sector and/or regional profitability and establishing turnaround plans for the Empact division.o  Support the delivery of applicable key focuses. o  Be an invaluable partner to the Procurement department with reporting:-      GP analysis-      Inflation reporting-      Rebate calculations and reporting-      Cash settlement discount tracking-      APL non-compliance tracking-      Supplier increase sign offs-      Procurement department KPI Tracking ·    Be an invaluable partner to Empact Function Heads, and be their contact for all matters concerning financial performance and analysis:o  Work closely with management to understand the key drivers of their business including commercial terms, sector conditions and restraints o  Lead management through the annual budget-setting process, taking ownership of the inputs for your area and play a key role at the interface between finance and the business o  Review the budget based on performance to date, and make appropriate amendments through the reforecast process o  Give management a clear indication of where their performance for the year is heading, and help them to understand what actions need to be taken. o  Provide the business unit and/or regional teams with all the reporting required to help them manage their areas including monthly summaries of actual performance. o  Attend sector and/or regional meetings as a key member of their management team. ·    Expect to be chal