Assistant Financial Controller
REF: KK576
Market Related Salary
Kenilworth, Western Cape
The successful candidate will be responsible for balance sheet reporting and planning while ensuring compliance with relevant reporting standards is upheld.
Reporting to the Group Balance Sheet Planning & Reporting Lead and Head of Planning, Reporting and Analytics, responsibilities include:
Working capital and balance sheet reporting
Assisting with implementing a working capital and balance sheet budgeting and forecasting process
Ensuring that accounting principles and interpretation are consistently applied
Assisting with investor relations queries relating to the balance sheet
Managing the Group’s annual asset impairment process, including the annual assessment of inputs required, accounting for changes in the economic environments the Group operates in, to ensure an effective impairment process is achieved
Developing a matrix of policy and process documentation
Managing the Group consolidation and reporting process
Communicating complex technical concepts effectively in business language
Assisting with external reporting publications, including annual financial statements, integrated annual report, sustainability report and analyst presentations
Managing external audit findings, resolving timeously, and implementing relevant controls and procedures to ensure the audit finding is not repeated
Providing regular and direct assistance to the Group Balance Sheet Planning & Reporting Lead and Head of Planning, Reporting and Analytics Head of Finance and CFO
Keeping up to date with IFRS standards and all accounting concepts, practices, and procedures and applying to reported results
Assisting with CA Trainee Programme
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
Relevant accounting degree
Management accounting experience (advantageous)
Financial and tax regulatory experience (advantageous)
Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint
Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Excel
Experience with BPP and/or SAP (advantageous)
High motivated, results orientated and self-directed individual
Ability to effectively prioritise and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
Problem solving and analytical thinking skills
Pro-active approach to implementation of changes in operational and accounting requirements