Management Accountant - Fiji

Role & responsibilities

Position : Management Accountant

Min. Experience : 4 -10 years

Location of posting : Fiji

Summary:

Prepare, monitor and control, the accounts for a department or business unit, to ensure a true and fair view of that department or business units financial affairs is recorded.

Key Outputs:-

Prepare a set of management accounts, with input from core partners in Finance and the

department or business unit being supported, ensuring accuracy and completeness.

• Take ownership of other critical financial elements aligned to the department or business unit

being supported, such as the balance sheet, cash flow report, and asset or inventory reporting.

• Review the monthly or ad-hoc performance of the department or business unit being

supported, in conjunction with a Financial Analyst, taking responsibility for the accounting

elements and causal factor analysis of the performance against Budget and/or Prior Periods.

• Provide assistance to the annual or ad-hoc planning, budgeting and forecasting exercises, for

departments or business units being supported, in conjunction with the Financial Analysts.

• Provide strong historical financial (information) support to the Financial Analysts, or to the

departments or business units being supported, for use in financial presentations at all levels.

• Contribute accounting knowledge to the financial components of ad-hoc projects within the

departments or business units being supported.

• Ensure adequate controls to ensure accuracy and completeness of deliverables i.e. ; Annual

Budgets, Five years Planning, Rolling and rolling forecast

• Completion of ad hoc projects and reports required by direct report, CFO, Heads of

Departments and the Executive Management.

• Business specific these areas include the Commercial functions that is Strategy and Selling

and Marketing business units and the support and administration functions of the business

which includes Finance, Human Resources (HR), Information Technology IT), Public Relations

(PR), Legal/Executive, government and international relations (IIGA), Customer Experience.

The only operational area included in this category is the Inflight Services which provides the

meals and the inflight entertainment served on board the aircraft and is driven by passenger

numbers and number of sectors.

• Strategy – this area looks after all the revenue generated by the company.

Understanding the various revenue line items is critical to interpret the causal factors.

• Selling & marketing – this area looks after cost of sales for the business and is driven

by the bookings/passengers/channel type and the regions. A key component is

advertising and marketing costs by the various regional sales teams.

• Finance – critical area in Finance costs is costs of hedging and the impact forex

exposure on the business.

• Other Business Support departments – this area looks at all admin related costs to the

business. Understanding the different business support areas is critical in determining

all costs incurred.

Job Requirements:-

Qualifications, Certifications and Experience

Qualifications

• Accountants in training for completion of ACMA or CPA with at least three years of experience with either a recognised firm of accountants or a reputable local or international business.

Experience Required :-

Team player and ability to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders, be challenging and resilient, whilst maintaining independence and objectivity

• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with a positive can do attitude
• Good organisational and problem solving skills with the ability to work on own initiative with energy, drive and commitment to deliver high quality results to tight timescales
• Excellent analytical and presentation skills with attention to detail and accuracy
• Drives customer service and continuous improvement
• Proficient in the use of MS Office applications with strong analytical, reporting and organisational skills;
• Able to foster trusting relationships with colleagues and have Team Management skills;
• Have the ability to work effectively and efficiently toward goals in a complex, diverse environment with multiple and changing demands.