Finance Compliance Associate

6 days ago

Johannesburg, South Africa NielsenIQ Full time

**Job Description**:
**Purpose**

Support all aspects of tax and statutory accounting and compliance in the local market. Assist with the coordination of activities between Operational Controlling, Revenue Controlling and Business Finance. Perform local tax, statutory accounting and audit activities specific to the respective market. Support the local core finance processes.

**Responsibilities**
- Assist with the maintenance of local statutory accounts and ensure ongoing compliance to local regulation for the local legal entities
- Assist in the statutory and tax accounting and audit processes and act as the single point of contact for external auditors and/or tax and statutory authorities or consultants in consultation with operations controller.
- Support compliance with all relevant global, regional or local policies, procedures and guidelines
- Support change locally with regard to standardization and simplification initiatives as governed by the Global or Regional COE core teams or by Finance leadership
- Assist in producing monthly closing dashboard, and quarterly and year-end reporting packs in accordance with corporate requirements for the local market
- Support Operational Controller to maintain internal controls and SOX documentation and ensure effective control environment through active coordination with the Group Controller and the Global and Regional COE core teams
- Support the Operational Controller during local internal audit and compliance review assignments, including any SOX or distributed audits

**Measurements**
- Leadership: Curious, Collaborative, Inclusive, Proactive, Accountable, Committed
- Financial: Global COE and Internal Control metrics, Internal and External Audit observations, Adherence to closing deadlines
- Values: Open, Connected, Useful, Personal

**What does Success mean for this role?**

A successful compliance associate will achieve a balanced coordination of all core and continuous finance activities between the local environment and the Global and Regional organization. S/he will have met all compliance metrics and ensured solid controls are in place and functioning for current and future compliant status of entity.

**Networks**

Internal:

- Link in with FP&A and Consolidation teams on closing schedule, accounting services, and consolidated accounts
- Work with Operational and Group Controller on compliance and governance
- Work with the Revenue Controlling functions primarily on revenue related activities as well during the closing process in assessing tax compliance of all transactions.
- Other transverse functions (facilities, HR, internal audit, etc) for accrual input, etc

External:

- Clients
- SARS
- External Audit or Consultants

**Requirements**:
Education & Training (preferred or required degrees, academic and/or professional training, or certification)
- Degree in Tax, Finance or Accounting preferred
- Chartered accountant South Africa preferred
- Local or international Accounting qualification (CA, ACCA, ACMA, or other) preferred
- Fluency in English and local language mandatory;
Experience (preferred or required technical, functional and/or leadership experience)
- External audit or public accounting experience preferred
- Knowledge and experience with local statutory requirements and statutory audits (Local GAAP, statutory financial statements, tax calculations, VAT returns) preferred
- Relevant professional experience in accounting or financial controlling
- Knowledge and experience with US-GAAP and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) preferred
- Experience with ERP systems (preferably SAP) preferred
- IT-PC literate (Google for Work, Microsoft Office)
- Strong communication skills, team player, leadership traits

Additional Information

**About NielsenIQ**

NielsenIQ is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class.

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