Accountant (Institutional team)

Leading Asset Manager is looking to fill an Accountant (Institutional team) gap in their team. The role sits within Group Finance, has a wonderful finance leader, who runs a small / stable team. Opportunity in this team is rare, this opening is due to an internal promotion.

Cape Town based. 

This role is responsible for the accounting function for a portion of the business, from cash book through to financial statements and reporting to management and various regulators.

Accounting includes:

• Preparation and recording of payments
• Cashbook entries recording receipt of fee income
• Monthly journal entries
• System extracts for policyholder transactions
• High-level review and consolidation of policyholder transactions maintained by Retail Finance

Reporting includes:

• Management information (for the company and used for group consolidated reporting)
• Monthly preparation of AFS, management income statement
• Monthly analysis of income (versus budget and versus assets)
• Monthly capital adequacy monitoring for reporting to MD

Regulatory includes:

• Quarterly reporting to SARB
• Quarterly reporting to FSCA, including in terms of SAM
• Annual reporting to FSCA, including in terms of SAM
• Quarterly reporting to ASISA.

Tax includes:

• DWT, VAT, income tax (IT14L in terms of the 5 funds approach required by S29A)
• Preparation of financial reports for the bi-annual directors meeting

And more. The candidate should expect other responsibilities to assist the overall Group Finance team, as may be required.

Core requirements:

• CA (SA) (financial services articles preferred)
• Financial services experience preferred, preferably 1-2 years post qualification
• Fit easily into a young, energetic, hardworking, demanding and team orientated environment
• STRONG academic transcripts is a must

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