Key Purpose:
The primary purpose of this role is to provide accurate relevant timeous and insightful analytical financial information that enhances financial awareness and enables appropriate business decision making.
Duties and responsibilities:
- Preparation of standardised reporting packs for the various stakeholders on a monthly quarterly and annual basis.
- Review cross functional financial accounting functional data and provide insightful analysis to enable transactional and process optimisation
- Identification of opportunities to eliminate process inefficiencies within the department and implementing solutions that drive continuous process improvement
- Support of financial accounting system enhancement projects to improve the efficiency and effectiveness across the department
- Prepare and report on process compliance across Financial accounting including but not limited to internal policies processes SOX IFRS internal and external audit as well as other SA regulatory bodies
- Benchmarking Company financial accounting processes and data against industry best in class business practices KPI and transformation activities
- Identify and communicate best practice opportunities for implementation
- Develop and roll out standardised reporting templates to facilitate standardisation
- Attendance of stock counts and ensure compliance to hard close and year end procedures
- Assistance with adhoc activities within the department
Qualifications and experience:
- BCom Honours or equivalent.
- Chartered Accountant of South Africa (CA(SA)) / Certified Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) with financial group reporting experience.
- 4 years operational finance experience.
- Previous experience in managing a complex reporting function an advantage.
- 34 years finance experience in a multinational.