Duties:

• Prepare Board pack submissions for the Board and Board Committee meetings, and ensure timely submission thereof (including budgets, forecasts, interims and year-end documents)
• Present financial results at Board and Audit Committee meetings
• Ensure adherence to IFRS principles across the Group
• Ensure adherence to internal and statutory deadlines across the Group
• Ensure the integrity of the financial figures reported in SENS announcements
• Ensure the integrity of the General ledger and Chart of accounts
• Ensure the integrity of Corporate and Group monthly management accounts, Group balance sheet, cash flows, budgets and forecasts.
• Fulfil a Group reporting and finance advisory role: develop and maintain appropriate accounting policies, processes and internal control systems in line with IFRS and best practice
• Be the key contact for year-end audit and ensure that there are no repeat audit findings
• Ensure that our interims and year-end disclosures are in line with best practice (e.g. through benchmarking)
• Play a key role in the preparation of the integrated annual report and related documents
• Play a key role in M&A project meetings, and ensure timely and accurate accounting of non-standard transactions (e.g. acquisitions, disposals, group-restructures etc.)
• Ensure timely and accurate computation of non-standard transactions (e.g. IFRS 16 calculations, impairment calculations, WACC, Purchase price allocations, etc.)
• Ensure timely and accurate computation of Financial KPI’s (e.g. ROCE)
• Ensure timely submission of Stats SA returns and other financial regulatory submissions
• Attend monthly financial reviews meetings
• Assist with drafting responses to analysts and investors
• Ensure strong financial reporting internal controls are adhered to, including Balance Sheet recons
• Provide regular and relevant IFRS training and IFRS guidelines to Financial Managers

Qualifications and Skills:
• CA (SA), 8-10 years’ post articles experience.
• Strong knowledge of IFRS
• Knowledge of Integrated Reporting
• Must have dealt with JSE Sponsors
• Advanced Excel skills
• SAGE X3 (advantage)