Responsibilities

• Manage and review of monthly management accounts including income statement and variance analysis, balance sheet and related reconciliations, intercompany billing calculations to ensure appropriate billing across entities and in line with contracts (includes review of prepayments and accruals to ensure all costs are billed)
• Review all trial balances to ensure completeness of the accounts
• Review of open items reports to ensure that all transactions are reconciled, and queries resolved timeously, and all creditors paid timeously
• Follow up on long outstanding items. Review and guide revenue recognition and the associated cost of revenue
• Prepare the monthly reconciliation of accounting data to group reports
• Prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations and consolidations
• Prepare and reconcile intercompany accounts
• Review all monthly income statements for related operating expenditure accounts
• Provide summaries of all highlights to the Head of Finance for income statement, balance sheet and open items. (e.g. Opex report, balance notes etc)
• Board reporting and minutes. Preparation and review of related financial data for Board Reports
• Work closely with the Statutory team in coordination of audits and attending to audit queries timeously
• Review of all team prepared internal and external audit reconciliations and clearing of all queries
• Review of all statutory calculations including direct and indirect taxes, annual returns, statutory reports etc
• Review of all statutory returns including income tax, annual returns, VAT, In-country reports, etc. Transfer pricing governance
• Ensure that all Intercompany and Intergroup billing complies with the Group’s Transfer Pricing policy
• Run Open Item Reports for all entities, query long outstanding items and request feedback on why invoices are not being paid
• Review and approve weekly payments, ensuring that the correct amounts and suppliers are paid
• Ensure timeous supplier and intergroup payments
• Ensure any systems development has been capitalized in the accounting records on the go live date and appropriate amortization has been applied
• Ensure that Net Suite and other systems operate effectively and efficiently for responsible companies
• Investigate and recommend solutions to improve operational efficiencies in the team via system or process enhancements
• Be a key owner in financial system and process transformations. Have the ability to scope, design and drive project implementation
• Periodically review and maintain business process policies to remain relevant and future-proof
• Review of accounting policies and procedures in line with the requirements of IFRS and other regulatory frameworks
• Day to day management of the financial accounting team
• Coordinate functions in the team to ensure that all team members are working effectively and able to deliver reporting on time
• Ensure best business practice is embedded across all processes and functions
• Undertake bi-annual team appraisals and performance development reviews
• Ensure team key deliverables are met on time and accurately
• Provide guidance, mentoring and support to all direct reports to ensure your team is working efficiently and coherently
• Manage all stakeholder expectations appropriately and communicate any potential problems

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of post-articles working experience
• Working knowledge of IFRS
• Consolidation experience is preferred
• Exposure to a global group finance environment and cross-border collaboration
• Experience in US GAAP, not essential
• Experience in Net Suite, preferred but not essential
• Experience in preparation and review of AFS
• Self-motivated, self-starter and highly productive
• High levels of accuracy, attention to detail and strong analytical skills
• Project management skills including the ability to meet all deadlines and the ability to effectively manage the implementation of proposals/acquisitions
• Strong ability to lead, to be a team player and understanding the “bigger picture”
• Must be able to work in a hybrid work environment
• Ideally Gauteng based but other locales will be considered
• Some travel may be required