Group Reporting and Financial Accountant

Location: Woodstock, Western Cape

Minimum Qualifying Criteria:

• BCom Financial Accounting Degree at a University (must have majored in Accounting)
• CA (SA) would be advantageous
• Or 5 8 years overall experience in Group Reporting and Financial Accounting for a listed company

Additional Requirements:

• Draftworx would be an advantageous
• Experience in preparation of income tax returns, VAT returns, provisional tax returns, dividend tax returns and carbon tax returns would be advantageous
• SAP advantageous
• Advanced Excel
• BI reporting advantageous

Roles and Responsibilities:

Monthly Reporting and Accounting:

• Preparation of all consolidation monthly entries
• Prepare the monthly early estimation documents and income statements
• Prepare the full month-end reporting pack with all relevant workings and support
• Assist with answering queries on monthly results and reports
• Preparation of loadshedding schedules
• Preparation of any additional monthly reports

Quarterly Reporting and Accounting:

• Preparation of all consolidation quarterly entries
• Preparation of all additional quarterly reports
• Assist with answering queries on quarterly results

Year-End Reporting and Accounting:

• Preparation of any additional year-end accounting entries required for group and consolidation
• Preparation of year-end reporting pack with comparatives and additional disclosures
• Preparation of additional reporting requirements for year end
• Assist with answering queries on yearly results

Dividends:

• Solvency and liquidity work papers
• Accounting entries and arranging for payments
• Assist with declarations to SARS
• Any ad hoc requests / schedules / queries from AVI or internally
• Continuous maintenance and improvement of templates and standard operating procedures.
• Ad-hoc Finance related assistance on various projects that arise in the ordinary course of business to be dealt with effectively and promptly Assisting all business units across the Group.
• Assist with deregistration's of entities and accounting work

Audits:

• Assist with external audit requests and process
• Assist with internal audit requests and requirements
• Assist with Information for BBEEE audits
• Preparation of representation letters and additional questionnaires

Forecast and Budget process:

• Quarterly and yearly budget process and full pack preparations & supporting work papers

Annual Financial Statements:

• Preparation of all entities AFS on Draftworx with supporting documentation
• To address all review notes internally (from FM and FD), and from auditors & AVI
• Preparation of related party schedules and support
• Assist with all finalization documentation
• Calculate PIS scores for each entity and report to company secretary
• Conversions of AFS in Draftworx to XBRL format

Board Packs:

• Assist in preparation of work papers, support and presentation slides
• Sagers submissions and support to assist with
• STATS SA submissions and questionnaires to complete

Direct and Indirect Taxes:

• Assist Tax accountant in busy times with tax and deferred taxes (especially half year-end, year end, and provisional taxes with tight deadlines)
• Back-up for full Tax accountant position when needed

How to apply: