- Gauteng
- Salary: Market Related
- Job Type: Permanent
- Sectors: Construction Manufacturing Mining
- Benefits: Medical Aid Pension Bonus
- Reference: 8212
- Employment Equity Position
Vacancy Details
Employer: Komatsu South Africa (Pty) Ltd.
INTRODUCTION:
Komatsu South Africa has an opportunity for an Accounting Manager: Group Operations (Machines/Units) to join the Finance Department. The successful candidate must be a highly motivated and experienced professional with a BCom Degree in Accounting, SAICA Articles, and a proven track record of at least 4 years in costing and reporting, complemented by a minimum of one year in a supervisory role.
SUMMARY OF JOB ROLE:
- Lead and manage operational reporting for machines, ensuring alignment with strategic goals..
- Use of IFRS reporting standards for compliance in applicable areas
- Monthly and quarterly reporting data compilation, meeting deadlines to close off books on machine sales
- Leads includes variance analysis and investigation between BP and actual figures
- Plan and manage resource allocation, reporting deadlines (KLTD, audits, projects), and system testing schedules.
- Fosters interdepartmental collaboration by liaising with cross-functional teams (e.g., Sales, Service, Warranty, Projects, and Audit) to ensure alignment on reporting requirements, cost allocations, and operational priorities.
- Monitor and assess progress of operational plans, submitting tactical progress reports on cost, status, and implementation.
- Oversee financial reporting related to inventory management, machines stock counts, machines obsolescence, advances (IFRS 15), Machines WIP costing, extended warranties, operational accruals and provisions, and royalty payments.
- Respond to internal and external audit queries regarding financial transactions and reporting.
- Understand operational contracts with customers for reporting purposes
- Liaise with internal stakeholders on machine sales, cost of sales, provisions, and reporting inputs.
- Recommend and implement corporate governance controls, standards, and procedures.
- Report on outsourced services/contracts and business metrics as required.
- Produce standard operational reports to support decision-making at branch level.
- Maintain ethical and professional relationships with all stakeholders.
- Implement structured communication and feedback mechanisms across teams.
- Monitor leadership development initiatives, identify gaps, and recommend actions.
- Track and control free service and warranty provision costs in collaboration with service teams.
- Ensure data integrity and accuracy in BI & FI systems, balancing and reconciling financial information.
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Required Skills
- Sap
- Consolidated Reporting
- Standard Costing Method Of Inventory Reporting
Candidate Requirements
- Bcom Degree with accounting or CIMA (essential)
- Bcom Honours Degree preferable (an added advantage)
- SAICA Articles (essential)
- 4 years related experience in accounting or related reporting.
- 1 year supervisory experience.
- Full scope of consolidated reporting.
- SAP experience is essential.
- Exposure to standard costing method of inventory reporting
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EXPERIENCE:
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About Komatsu South Africa (Pty) Ltd.
We build machines to answer the needs of society. For more than a century, our brand has been synonymous with connection to community. It guides everything we do, from the ways we think about innovation, to how we hire and train new employees around the world, and how we build relationships with our customers.
In 1921, Meitaro Takeuchi founded our company in the town that shares our name. He did so to provide work for the local community after the closure of a nearby copper mine.
Today, we have come a long way from where we started. We have evolved into a truly global company with a diverse workforce comprised of different nationalities and beliefs. And it’s by harnessing the potential of all our different talents and unique perspectives that we push ourselves further.
We explore and help advance the boundaries of technology, developing smart construction equipment and autonomous mining trucks, creating underwater electric bulldozers and even conceptualizing an excavator capable of operating on the moon. Our products and solutions directly support industries essential to the ongoing development of modern societies and everyday life.
For our core customers in forestry, construction and mining, we make big machines that take on even bigger challenges, gentle giants answering the needs of society.
We believe that when people are united by a common goal, the truly remarkable happens. In communities across the globe, we find purpose in creating value through manufacturing and technology innovation to empower a sustainable future where people, business, and our planet thrive together.
Harnessing our collective expertise to go further, we stay true to our brand promise: Creating value together.
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