MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANT – Botswana National Productivity Centre (BNPC) 1347 views

The Botswana National Productivity Centre (BNPC) mandate is to enhance the level of productivity awareness as an advocacy function and to enable individuals and organisations through training and consulting to be productive and competitive. BNPC seeks candidates to apply for the below-mentioned position:
MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANT (ONE-YEAR CONTRACT)

Job Purpose
Planning, organising, managing and controlling the implementation of Financial Management in order to facilitate the achievement of the Centre’s organisational and business objectives and timely production of Management Accounts reflecting accurate financial status to help and inform management in decision making.

Key Performance Areas

⦁ Preparation of Annual Financial Statements;
⦁ Monitoring and controlling the Centre’s expenditure to ensure that there is sound financial prudence, as well as to guard against over-expenditure to ensure that expenses are within the budget;
⦁ Preparation of periodic Centre’s Income and Expenditure, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow, Variance Analysis and Commentaries that interpret and communicate financial information to management to facilitate informed business decision-making;
⦁ Identification of potential areas of financial risk, and waste management and coming up with possible solutions, bringing them to the attention of management for remedial action and ensuring increase in efficiency and possible reduction in waste;
⦁ Costing of projects and services and carrying out of financial analysis in order to establish the financial and commercial viability can be relied upon;
⦁ Timely collection of the approved grant, supervising the invoicing and collection of revenue from internally generated sources to ensure that there is liquidity for the Centre to enable it to meet its obligations; and
⦁ Coordinating and preparing external audits to ensure compliance with statutory requirements and that accounts control audit queries are adequately addressed and resolved.

Competencies

⦁ Interpretation and application of IFRS;
⦁ Knowledge of Tax Legislation;
⦁ Interpretation and application of Financial policies, procedures and regulations;
⦁ Strong communication skills;
⦁ Computer literacy;
⦁ Report skills;
⦁ Problem-solving; and
⦁ Attention to detail

Job Requirements

⦁ A degree in Accounting or CIMA, ACCA (fully qualified member of BICA; and
⦁ Five (5) years of experience, three (3) of which must have been spent at a level of supervisor in a computerised accounting environment.