Senior Reporting Accountant

DEPARTMENT: Finance

REPORTS TO: Reporting Manager

SUPERVISES 

JOB PURPOSE 

The Reporting accountant supports business operations in  understanding the financial information and identifying  opportunities to maximize financial performance, ensuring compliance with the Company’s policies, International Financial  

Reporting Standards (IFRS) and Statutory Requirements. The role also collaborates with FP&A specialists in budget development, forecasting, and tracking of actuals vs budgets.

KEY RESULT  AREAS (OUTPUTS)

• Ensure timely, accurate, and efficient financial close 
• Support the design and adoption of accounting policies,  procedures, and controls. 
• Perform value-added operational analysis, primarily budget/forecast variance analysis. 
• Prepare standard monthly/quarterly financial reports for local, regional, and corporate management. 
• Support Quarterly financial review calls/Fluxes 
• Support internal and external auditors’ requirements. 
• Deliver on-time and accurate statutory reporting. 
• Carry out projects post-implementation reviews to ensure the business is realizing a return on investment per business case.

KEY DUTIES AND  RESPONSIBILITIES 

1. Financial and Management Reporting 

• Prepare timely and accurate financial statements and management reports (monthly and quarterly, biannually and annually) in accordance with the Finance policy and IFRS. 
• Ensure statutory statements are produced in time and filed  appropriately 
• Ensuring that the accounts prepared to present a true and fair  view and are in accordance with prevailing accounting  standards
• Month-end review of pass-through and fixed power revenue and cost for accurate power margin reporting. 
• Coordinate the preparation of Ops review slides  

2. General Ledger maintenance/control 

• Weekly review of bank balances and ensure all reconciling items are explained. 
• Support the business by providing correct account coding per business chart of account (COA). Review schedules of all reporting balance sheet ledgers. 
• Review monthly reconciliation of R11 R12 per control guidelines. 
• Ensure the integrity of the general ledger and reports  generated 

3. Financial Analysis/Business performance 

• Review analysis is done to ensure trends, correlations, and dependencies have been identified and adequately explained. 
• Monthly review of power margin trends. 
• Support projects post-implementation reviews to ensure the business is realizing a good return on investment. 

4. Budgeting and Cost Control 

• Analyse and report on the performance of the department  in terms of the achievement of targets against  budgets/plans 
• Support the process of budgeting/forecasting through explaining actual spending. 

5. Support Internal and External Audits  

• Support regular internal and external audits 
• Follow-up on the resolution of audit queries and the  implementation of any recommendations  
• Ensure financial information and relevant schedules are  prepared in the correct format and in time for the annual  external audit 
• Resolution of audit queries.
• Audits started and completed within the timeframe agreed. 

6. Other duties 

• Other duties as assigned

PERSON SPECIFICATION

• Must have a high degree of integrity, confidentiality, and trust, a  good work ethic, and sound judgment 
• Strong knowledge of IFRS and US GAAP 
• Highly skilled in Excel
• Oracle experience preferred 
• Strong analytical skills 
• Self-motivated, able to work in a team and independently  
• Ability to work in a high-volume, fast-paced environment 
• Detail-oriented, able to meet deadlines and adjust to changing  priorities 
• Good oral communication skills 
• Ability to communicate clearly across the whole organization
• Excellent follow-up skills 
• The incumbent must be flexible as there may be occasions that require working beyond the standard working week to ensure the expectations and responsibilities of the position are met.

MINIMUM ACADEMIC  QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• First degree in Finance and Accounting.  
• Full Professional Accountant (ACCA/CPAU). 
• 5+ years of experience in a finance close environment with  2 years at least reporting directly to the CFO or CEO.

ADDITIONAL 

• We are a dynamic organization in a rapidly changing industry. Accordingly, the responsibilities associated with this job will change from time to time in accordance with the  Company’s business needs. More specifically, the incumbent may be required to perform additional and/or different responsibilities from those set forth above. 
• The above declarations are not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job described, nor are they intended to be such a listing of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Rather, they are intended only to describe the general nature of the job.

ENVIRONMENT 

• 90% of work will be performed in a climate-controlled internal office environment working under normal office conditions. 
• 5-10% travel will be required in support of the position’s responsibilities. 
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; stand; walk; use hands and finger to feel and handle; reach with arms and hands; talk and hear.  While performing the duties of this job, the employee frequently is required to stoop, kneel, and crouch; lift weight or exert a force up to a maximum of 25 pounds.

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