The New loveLife Trust Available Job Vacancy

The New loveLife Trust is youth leadership development NGO that campaigns with nationwide community level outreach and supports programmes that promote socio-economic and healthy, HIV-free living among young South Africans. loveLife has reached unprecedented scale in implementing cutting-edge comprehensive and combined social behaviour change programming face-to-face with adolescents.

Job Title: Management Accountant
Job Location: Sandton

Salary: R 450 000 cost to company per annum

The purpose of the position is to do end-to-end management information reporting, budgeting, donor reporting and overall business support.

Responsibilities:

Management Information Reporting

• Prepare monthly and quarterly management accounts reporting pack for the organisation
• Prepare monthly expenditure reports and discuss as necessary with the departments or budget holders
• Prepare rolling project expenditure reports for Programme Managers
• Coordinate and participate in Business Plan drafting, challenge sessions and reviews with the whole business
• Compile variance analysis report and commentary thereto on a monthly basis
• Ensure that adequate information is available for budget holders to monitor/assess their financial spend progress against funded programmes
• Prepare adhoc reports to assist with management decisions as and when required
• Assume full responsibility and ownership of Donor/ Funder financial reporting and process management
• Prepare all Donor /Funder reports accurately, timely in line with donor/ funder requirements
• Liaise and coordinate with all Departments on donor/ funder financial requirements
• Design templates to collate financial data and for use in donor/funder reports where this is not prescribed
• Provide and manage the accurate donor/funder and project coding of all input to ERP/GL from staff
• Determining monthly, quarterly and yearly standards, based on organisation premises
• Obtain Programmes Management and Exco approval of budget assumptions
• Compile the company’s budgets in line with organisation and funder formats
• Critically appraising detailed budgets – challenge assumptions where necessary
• Coordinate capital investment requests preparation in line with organisation and funder requirements
• Reports to internal management and Funders/Donors as per required format and timelines.
• Input all budgets in ERP and updates quarterly
• Update monthly budget and Latest Estimate of budget for use internally and at quarterly performance reviews
• Provide Management team with Business Indicators, Industry, and profitability analysis
• Provide information analysing actuals vs. budgets on specific adhoc requests for budget holders
• Ensure Pastel data base is adequately maintained for accounting and reporting
• Ensure adequate Finance KPI’s / internal reporting is provided to the loveLife management team
• Adhoc requests for costing of projects or programmes inputs
• Annual review of programme costings

Requirements:

• B Com degree / Honours with accounting as a major, CTA or CIMA qualified or close to completion (strategic level)
• Minimum of four to five years’ experience in a similar position or senior
• Management Accounting, business planning and strategy implementation experience essential
• Financial Modelling and Excel skills
• Governance and Business control
• Activity Based Costing experience
• Coordination and problem solving
• Oral and written communication skills
• Personality with drive and energy
• Accurate, analytical and detail oriented
• Diligent and able to work under pressure
• Knowledge of fund accounting, project accounting including and reporting requirements to major Government agencies, is an advantage

To apply

Submit your CV to [email protected] quoting the position in the subject line.

Application Deadline:  Friday, 22 March, 2019