Financial Accounting Manager

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity in Wealth Management? My client is seeking a Financial Accounting Manager reporting into the Group Head of Financial Reporting. You will manage a small team to ensure the accurate and timely month end close process for all entities in the Group.

Responsibilities:

• To be responsible for the month end close process of more challenging Group entities including the following:
  • Bank reconciliations on a weekly and monthly basis to ensure that the cash records are correct
  • Liaise with the accounts payable team to ensure that accruals and prepayments are booked correctly
  • Liaise with the billing team to ensure that they have completed the billing, WIP accruals, bad debt provisions and income split journals for assigned Group entities
  • Review of the monthly trend analysis for assigned Group entities
  • Preparing the monthly profit and loss, and balance sheet reports
  • Provide input into cash forecast for tax or other cash items
• Review and complete VAT and Tax returns for the relevant tax authority within required deadlines
• Ensure that the team understands and adheres to all financial and accounting regulations and legislation
• Assist with the completion of regulatory returns during busy periods and provide data to the regulatory reporting team for monthly regulatory cap updates
• Review of the local and Group SLA's calculations - Review the monthly payroll for assigned jurisdictions - Review month payroll journals for assigned entities
• Preparation of weekly/monthly cash flow statements, and controlling expenditure and cash flow
• Prepare year-end statutory financial statements and review the those produced by the team
• Respond to ad-hoc financial queries by gathering and interpreting data
• Liaison with auditors
• Provide on the job training and support to team members

Requirements:

• Qualified SAIPA Accountant with several years PQE
• IFRS experience essential
• Management of different jurisdictional payrolls
• Financial Services industry experience

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