Financial Accounting Manager

Job title: Financial Accounting Manager

Job Location: Gauteng, Johannesburg

Deadline: April 26, 2025

Activities:

As a Financial Accounting Manager, you would possess the following:

• Qualified Chartered Accountant with minimum 7 years Corporate experience in a large company

Key competencies required:

• Deciding and initiating
• Leading and supervising
• Presenting and communicating information
• Learning and researching
• Planning and organising
• Analytical and attention to detail
• High level of integrity and commitment
• Coping with pressure

Technical knowledge or skills required:

• International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
• Good experience and knowledge of SAP and MS Office
• Year-end reporting and closing procedures
• Advanced Excel
• Caseware

Candidate Profile:

HSEQ:

• To ensure constant adherence and compliance to company HSEQ and security standards, local by-laws, standards and legislation to minimize all risk pertaining to company assets and protection of life
• Accounting and reporting
• Manage month-end closure process
• Journal entries to be analysed and reviewed before posting
• Review of balance sheet reconciliations
• Quarterly consolidation of Group results
• Manage and review of monthly management accounts
• Manage and review of quarterly board reports
• Quarterly submission of CAP report to Group
• Ensuring consistency between all monthly, quarterly and annual reports - CAP, APL, Board, Audit Committee and AFS
• Preparation of accurate KPI’s and ratios
• Preparation and review of annual financial statements
• Managing auditors' requirements and queries during interim and year-end
• Ensure and advise on IFRS compliance. Responsible for accounting technical memo
• Ensure recharges for all entities are accurate and complete
• Responsible for annual training of business for accounting principles
• Responsible for managing and coordination with the Share Service Centre
• Review the departmental policies and procedures and ensure they are up to date
• Provide financial analysis and insights on financial performance and position
• Ensure Sox compliance, review commentary on EIC and ELC
• Review ACAC for completeness and accuracy, advise on improved controls
• Ensure that the team is motivated, trained and strives to provide the highest quality of financial reporting (timing, accuracy and consistency)
• To recruit competent staff
• Monitoring team’s performance on an ongoing basis

Business developments:

• To participate in information technology projects that have an impact on the results of the company
• To optimise the use of available technology to improve the flow of available information to internal and external stakeholders
• To identify inefficient processes and drive the implementation of more improved accounting processes