What you’ll be doing
As part of your role, your responsibilities will include:
Financial reporting:
1. Monthly management reports
• Check to ensure that data is posted correctly by product, region, brand.
• Reconcile data imported into NAV/BC (ERP) to the Audit Report.
• Match all open items in vendors and customers
• Investigate anomalies and open items timeously and provide necessary feedback to stakeholders.
• Run weekly open item reports and follow up on long outstanding items.
• Calculation of monthly outsource fees and checking that this agrees to the terms of the contract.
• Posting accruals, and prepayments and ensure that finance assistant has posted invoices.
• Review inventory & travel management report prepared by the finance assistant.
• Assist with the analysis of expenses, with commentary (Opex & Fee files) ensuring all expenses have been categorized and allocated correctly across all business units.
• Review commentary that has been added by the creditors controller for validity
• Assist with the preparation of monthly income statement files, including commentaries per expense type and brand.
• Posting all intercompany and intergroup billing.
• Fixed asset & Intangible asset reporting and recons, ensuring that all assets are correctly captured.
• Run depreciation.
• Run FX.
2. Analytical reporting
• Ensure that all relevant data is split by product, region, platform, brand where appropriate.
• Preparation of monthly income statement with relevant commentary.
• Preparation / update of monthly support and annualised schedules including legal fees, accounting & audit fees, and professional fees.
• Preparation of monthly balance sheet with relevant commentary.
• Preparation of monthly brand income statement.
Corporate Governance:
1. Audits
• Preparation of audit files & upload of evidence.
• Liaise with other contributors to ensure completeness of all audit files.
• Liaise with the manager regarding all queries from the external auditors.
• Resolve queries from external auditors in a timely manner.
2. SOX compliance
• Prepare SOX control support and evidence.
• Ensure that all controls are adhered to, documented, and implemented for SOX compliance.
• Evidence of internal controls are timeously submitted. Tax management and compliance.
• Preparation of corporate tax and VAT calculations per entity.
• Prepare all related reporting for annual returns, regulatory reports.
• Reconciliation of all VAT and tax vendors and matching to ensure submission and payments to the authorities have been timeously made.
• Effective correspondence with local tax authority and follow up on outstanding items.
Funds and Assets Management:
1. Cash flow
• Run vendor open items reports weekly and request payment of open items due for payment.
• Ensure timeous supplier and intergroup payments.
• Prepare weekly payments, ensuring that the correct amounts and suppliers are paid.
Robust and critical systems and controls:
1. Policies and procedures
• Assist in the drafting of process notes detailing how and why monthly tasks are performed to ensure business continuity.
Financials staffing:
1. KPI management
• Effectively work as a team with relevant team members.
• Effectively communicate to manager and team members to ensure key deliverables are met on time and potential problems escalated.
• Communicates clearly and effectively at all levels; both internally and externally.
• Effectively feeds information to required members of the team to ensure all important updates are shared appropriately.
• Manages other’s expectations appropriately and proactively communicates any potential problems.
• Bi-annual setting of objectives.
Ad hoc:
• Other ad hoc duties as may be required from time to time in line with business requirements.
Areas of responsibility:
• Trial balance management of all entities.

Essential skills you’ll bring to the table
The necessary skills that we require for this role include:
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex ideas clearly and effectively
• Experience working collaboratively in cross-functional teams, with a focus on achieving shared goals
• Expertise in managing multiple projects simultaneously, with a track record of delivering on time and within scope
• Exceptional attention to detail, ensuring high standards of quality in all outputs
• Ability to adapt quickly to changing environments and priorities, maintaining effectiveness in dynamic situations
• BCom financial accounting degree or related qualification and Articles
• Minimum 3 years post-Articles experience in a similar role
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• Detail-oriented with a high level of accuracy