SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:
The head office is based in Brackenfell, South Africa. The vacant Group financial accountant position will report to the CFO or Group Financial Manager but will transition into a financial manager position over time. The client’s group financial team is a small team with a flat reporting structure.
Key responsibilities:
The Group financial accountant 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 which could change from time to time. The detailed responsibilities include the following:
Month End
- Preparing loan account reconciliations and product development cost calculations.
- Review of subsidiaries’ management accounts.
- Tax calculations.
- Preparing group consolidated management accounts.
Year-end Audit
- Management of the year-end external audit requirements/deliverables.
- Ensure that financial transactions in the group are recorded in compliance with IFRS.
- Assist group companies with technical accounting transactions and year-end reporting packs.
- Review 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.
- Preparation of group companies' annual financial statements.
Reporting
- Compiling of management information.
- Drafting of reports for the Finance and risk committee and board of directors.
Other
- Tax compliance responsibilities.
- Compile group consolidated budgets and budget reporting pack.
- Compile Group consolidated cash flow forecast.
- Assistance/involvement with mergers and acquisitions.
- Assist 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.
- Problem-solving skills / can work independently.
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