Financial Controller – Statutory & Group Reporting - Midrand
Salary – R800 000 CTC Negotiable
We require someone with post article (CA) experience
The primary purpose of this role is to:
• Owning the process for the preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual consolidated financial accounts for the purposes of internal and external financial reporting
• Owning process for consolidating operating entity results and preparing monthly, quarterly and annual consolidated income statement, balance sheet and cash flows
• Prepare annual financial statements for all companies
• Ensure compliance to accounting standards
Duties:
• Preparation of individual company and consolidated financial statements required note disclosure details for quarterly and annual external reporting
• Own the process for research, recommendation and documentation of ad hoc accounting treatment papers and all technical accounting queries across the business as well as acting as liaison with the external auditors in relation to these and other audit issues
• Compliance to SOX, IFRS, internal and external audit as well as other SA regulatory bodies
• Ensure a simplified and standardised month end processes are followed
• Identify opportunities to eliminate process inefficiencies
• Provide value adding and analytical insights for the whole group
• Drive the elimination of unnecessary companies and company structure
• Provide technical accounting expertise for significant group transactions and in the preparation of financial statements for the group
• Project work including cost saving initiatives and process optimisation
• Attendance of stock counts and ensure compliance to hard close and year end procedures
Requirements:
• CA (SA) / CTA with completed articles
• 1-3 years statutory and technical accounting finance experience
• Previous experience in managing a statutory reporting function an advantage
• Strong statutory reporting and accounting knowledge.
• A high level of computer literacy (HFM, SAP, Margin Minder, Word, Excel & PowerPoint)