Group Financial Accountant

About the position

Reporting to the CFO and Group Financial Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for month-end accounting and reporting processes, interim/year-end closing and reporting aspects, year-end audit, budgeting process and other financial related projects.

Responsibilities include:

Month End:

• Preparing loan account reconciliations and product development cost calculations
• Reviewing subsidiaries' management accounts
• Tax calculations
• Preparing Group consolidated management accounts

Year-end Audit:

• Managing the year-end external audit requirements/deliverables
• Ensuring that financial transactions in the Group are recorded in compliance with IFRS
• Assisting Group companies with technical accounting transactions and year-end reporting packs
• Reviewing inter-group transactions and loan accounts
• Overseeing the reporting by Group companies (local and foreign) and performing Group consolidations
• Tax calculations
• Group financial reporting packs for submission to a listed company
• Preparing Group companies annual financial statements

Reporting:

• Compiling management information
• Drafting reports for the Finance and risk committee and Board of Directors

Other Duties:

• Tax compliance responsibilities
• Compiling Group consolidated budgets and budget reporting pack
• Compiling Group consolidated cash flow forecast
• Assisting/being involved with mergers and acquisitions
• Assisting CFO and CEO with presentations to stakeholders

Minimum requirements:

• CA(SA) qualification
• 3 years post article experience
• AFS (full IFRS) / tax / budgeting experience
• Group accounting / consolidation experience
• Management accounting experience
• Strong Excel skills

Desired Skills:

• Budgeting
• Forecasting
• consolidation
• Excel
• IFRS
• Group Accounting