Job Description: Responsibilities & Requirements
Who You Are:
- You are a financial accountant – you strive to produce timely accurate reporting.
- You keep up to date with changes to all accounting standards.
- You have built capability in others before (formally and informally –through training, feedback, and other means) and you enjoy seeing others succeed.
- You enjoy analyzing financial data and seek to understand processes and reasons for variances.
- You have a strong sense of ethics and pay attention to detail
What You'll Have Done Before:
Baseline
- CA (SA) accreditation
- Latest International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Knowledge
- Caseware experience
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in Finance function
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Advantageous
- SAP ERP experience
- Management experience
- Exciting challenges you might face in the role:
- Responsible for implementation of new IFRS standards
- Accounting and reconciliation of leases (additions, early terminations, modifications) in terms of IFRS 16
- Statutory reporting: review / compile Annual financial statements for the non-SA entities
- Explain to business the impact of the new standards on financial results.
What you'll be doing:
- Review of general ledger on a monthly basis and provide feedback to corporate accountants where required.
- Work with business to understand account balances and ensure validity and accuracy.
- Perform quarterly and year end reporting schedules for group accounting submissions.
- Responsible for segment of business planning - Balance Sheet
- Work closely with company auditors to complete company audits in a timely manner
- Manage and supervise assistant accountant