Financial Controller - Sanlam Group

Key Responsibilities:

With logical thinking and excellent numerical, provide support to the Financial Manager in the execution of his/her responsibilities, including: 

• Verifies and allocates details of business transactions to accounts
• Receiving of invoices from suppliers, checking reasonability and processing
• Calculates and processing of invoices for fee income 
• Ensures collection of income
• Completing reconciliations
• Reviews completeness and accuracy of financial record keeping
• Managing of expenses against budgets and report back to management (IT / Marketing / cellphone / training)
• Compiles reports to management 
• Resolving payment and invoicing queries 
• Completing rebate calculations
• Assisting with month-end procedures, including provisions and reporting
• Assisting internal and external auditors with their requests
• Assisting with annual budget processes
• Follow up on outstanding receivables / payables
• Check and authorize broker payments
• Ad hoc requests
• Completion and submission of asset and flows report (portfolio list)
• Manager fee expense reasonability checks and payments, and liasing with managers to resolve differences.

What will make you successful in this role?

Minimum experience and qualifications:

• Accounting degree 
• 3 – 5 years’ in a similar role in the financial services industry

Core Competencies 

• Cultivates Innovation – Creating new and better ways for the organisation to be successful 
• Client focus – building strong client relationships and delivering client centric solutions 
• Drives results – consistently seizing opportunities and achieving results even under tough circumstances 
• Collaborates – building partnerships and working collaboratively and inclusively with others to meet shared objectives 
• Being Resilient – rebounding from setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations 

Behavioural Competencies 

• Business Insight – applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organizations goals 
• Action Orientated – Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm 
• Manages Ambiguity – Operating effectively even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear 
• Communicates Effectively – developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences 

Technical Skills

• Strong attention to detail 
• Proactive attitude

Technical Competencies & Skills

• Proficient in accounting 
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (advanced Excel skills is essential)
• EssBase experience will be advantageous
• IDU experience will be advantageous