Job Description

The head office is based in Brackenfell, South Africa. The vacant Group financial accountant position will report to the CFO or Group Financial Manager but will transition into a financial manager position over time. The client's group financial team is a small team with a flat reporting structure.Key responsibilities:The Group financial accountant will be responsible for month-end accounting and reporting processes, interim/year-end closing and reporting aspects, year-end audit, budgeting process and other financial-related projects which could change from time to time. The detailed responsibilities include the following:Month End

• Preparing loan account reconciliations and product development cost calculations.
• Review of subsidiaries' management accounts.
• Tax calculations.
• Preparing group consolidated management accounts.

Year-end Audit

• Management of the year-end external audit requirements/deliverables.
• Ensure that financial transactions in the group are recorded in compliance with IFRS.
• Assist group companies with technical accounting transactions and year-end reporting packs.
• Review inter-group transactions and loan accounts.
• Overseeing the reporting by group companies (local and foreign) and performing group consolidations.
• Tax calculations.
• Group financial reporting packs for submission to a listed company.
• Preparation of group companies' annual financial statements.

Reporting

• Compiling of management information.
• Drafting of reports for the Finance and risk committee and board of directors.

Other

• Tax compliance responsibilities.
• Compile group consolidated budgets and budget reporting pack.
• Compile Group consolidated cash flow forecast.
• Assistance/involvement with mergers and acquisitions.
• Assist CFO and CEO with presentations to stakeholders.

Minimum requirements:

• CA(SA) qualification.
• 3 years post-article experience.
• AFS (full IFRS) / tax/budgeting experience.
• Group accounting/consolidation experience.
• Management accounting experience.
• Strong Excel skills.
• Problem-solving skills / can work independently.

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