Management Accountant à United States

Join our Lactalis SA. Lactalis is one of the major players in the Southern African Dairy Industry. This role will be responsible for processing Variable Rebates South Africa / P&L on all expenses.

• B.Com or equivalent
• Good analytical skills
• High accuracy and attention to detail
• Good problem solving skills
• Ability to work independently and under pressure in a fast-paced environment
• Supervision and Rebates Management experience required
• Must be computer literate, have integrated system experience, and advanced Excel knowledge (advantageous)

• Generate rebate trading term templates for the year for use by the sales team using Trade agreement system
• Trading terms submission templates (blank forms to the commercial team)
• Monitor trading agreement submissions, approvals, and adherence to LOA
• Capture trading terms on Contract System and prepare related review files for South Africa
• Make updates/corrections to the contracts in the system when needed
• Create Item Views on contract system as needed, ensuring alignment with sales cube information
• Assign system rights on contract system, managing terminations and changes
• Maintain item views on the Contract System (new products, etc.)
• Submit monthly/YTD sales to clients and verify sales against system payments for accuracy
• Create provisions for Distributors, ensuring accuracy of delivery information
• Create provisions for new contracts and stop/cancel terminated contracts
• Balance and validate month-end Shoprite systems vs Lactalis information
• Process results of Shoprite information on contract system for month-end accrual accuracy
• Calculate Agent Commission, create manual journals for monthly accruals
• Assist with promotional and ad hoc expense invoices from customers
• Verify invoices and resolve queries with debtors and the commercial team
• Provide GL/expense allocations to debtors for invoice processing
• Validate processing accuracy, query anomalies, and assist with discrepancies
• Handle ad hoc requests from the commercial team, debtors, and management
• Month End Duties: validate deductions, monitor deadlines, test report accuracy, review payments vs provisions, investigate anomalies, manage full month-end process, prepare management reports, ensure system balancing, prepare journals, and compile reconciliation files
• Growth Monitoring: track growth customers, reconcile accruals, prepare payments, assist with onboarding new companies, and support audits