Senior Accountant CA(SA)

SUMMARY:
Our client, a data-driven software communication platform, is seeking a Senior Accountant/Regional Finance Manager to join their team.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the financial management, financial controls and reporting function of their region, encompassing international entities.

POSITION INFO:
Key Responsibilities:

• Accounting and maintenance of a complete and accurate general ledger across the subsidiaries of the region, as well as analysis in relation to those areas on a monthly basis.
• Overall responsibility for driving the monthly close process, ensuring that the entities in your region are closed accurately and timeously in line with the Group close objectives each month.
• Work with shared services for financial operations to ensure payroll, AP, AR etc. is correctly reflected in financial reporting.
• Act as a first reviewer on the allocated areas within the close process to ensure the output of the processes above is in line with expectations before Group Finance Manager reviews.
• Balance sheet reconciliations and ensuring balances are maintained on a monthly basis as part of the close process.
• Collaborate and support the FP&A function on an ad hoc basis.
• Manage the statutory audits, as well as regulatory compliance reporting and tax filings.
• Assist with the group audit as it relates to the entities in your region
• Assist with ad hoc requests and prepare any necessary internal reporting as needed.
• Proactively anticipate and identify issues and design solutions to address them.

• Qualified CA(SA)
• Big 4 background with 2 years of post-qualification experience.
• Experience as a self-starter who can manage multiple projects in a complex environment with evolving priorities and deadlines.
• Proficiency with Excel analysis and manipulation of large data sets, including use of pivot tables and lookup formulas.
• Strong attention to detail, high degree of accuracy, and the ability to deliver clean and concise outputs.
• Experience performing general ledger account reconciliations and analysis.
• Ability to proactively identify problems, design solutions, and implement changes.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills to work cross-functionally across departments, and with external auditors/consultants.
• Proficient in processing transactions in an ERP system, including Sage Intacct or similar systems such as Netsuite/Quickbooks/Xero
• Strong knowledge of international accounting, reporting and auditing standards.
• Comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced international environment.
• System implementation experience is advantageous.