Job Description

Qualifications / Requirements:

• SAIPA membership or SAICA qualification.
• Accounting qualification.
• Drivers Licence.
• Must be willing to travel.

Duties:

• Reporting: Assist with the preparation of the consolidated audit pack to help the Finance Executive

Manager speed up the consolidation process during the audit. * Standardize audit pack for individual companies to ensure consistent treatment of similar items across the Group.

• Help develop and improve the reporting model.
• Provide financial managers in the group with guidance and assistance on the preparation of the financial statements of the subsidiaries in the group.
• Preparation of annual financial statements for the group and subsidiaries in terms of IFRS.
• Prepare documentation for the auditors: impairment reviews, impact of future accounting policies, justification to consolidate/deconsolidate companies, operating segments, going concern assessment.
• Management information: Assist with the compilation of the monthly management reports using financial and nonfinancial information from various data sources.
• Compare actual performance to budget and prior year and obtain reasons for variances.
• Identify and investigate unusual financial trends and anomalies to ensure that actual performance is a true reflection of business performance and results achieved.
• Involvement in the forecasting of future financial performance.
• Assist with drafting management discussion and analysis part of the monthly management reports..
• Prepare flash reports at month end.
• Help with identification of useful
• Group Secretarial Work: Assist the Finance Executive with all matters associated with facilitating board meetings.
• Minutes of meetings.
• Research of matters which may have Companies Act implications.
• Preparing board packs.
• Drafting shareholder and directors resolutions.
• Updating shareholding registers.
• Filing returns with the CIPC.
• Special projects: Assist with the process of providing financial managers in the group with guidance and

assistance on complex IFRS reporting items. * Assist the Finance Executive with ad hoc projects related to transactions.

• Assist with the accounting for smaller companies within the group.
• Treasury: Ensure that Cash Budgets and Forecast cash flow positions are prepared on time for the Group.
• Conduct a variance analysis on a weekly basis and provide management with a detailed analysis of changes and the reasons therefore.
• Maintain banking relationships and negotiate terms with banks under the strict supervision of the executive director.
• Ensure that sufficient reserves are maintained for short- and long-term liabilities.
• Prepare analysis of short- and long-term liquidity requirements of the group and ensure future cash flow requirements are based on accurate projections.
• An Accounting Professional is expected to interrogate the source data and cannot utilise information received from internal sources / departments without verification.
• Ensure that sufficient funds are available to meet ongoing operational and capital investment requirements.
• Maintain a system of policies and procedures to ensure adequate level of control over

treasury activities.

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