Head: Group Ifrs Special Projects

2 weeks ago

Cape Town, South Africa Group Finance Full time

**Introduction**

Through our client-facing brands Metropolitan and Momentum, with Multiply (wellness and rewards programme), and our other specialist brands, including Guardrisk and Eris Property Group, the group enables business and people from all walks of life to achieve their financial goals and life aspirations.

We help people grow their savings, protect what matters to them and invest for the future. We help companies and organizations care for and reward their employees and members. Through our own network of advisers or via independent brokers and utilizing new platforms Momentum Metropolitan provides practical financial solutions for people, communities and businesses.

**Role Purpose**

The individual will be responsible for planning, implementing, and executing a wide range of strategic initiatives within the MMH Group IFRS Reporting team that align with our strategic goals and objectives.

**Requirements**:

- Qualified Chartered Accountant or equivalent CIMA
- Minimum of 10 years’ post articles experience in financial reporting experience, including minimum 5 years in life insurance.
- Experience in presenting at Exco, Audit committee and Board levels
- Experience in effectively liaising with key stakeholders (external audit, internal audit, risk management, BU finance teams, Exco and Board members).
- Knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and risk management principles.
- Understanding of consolidation principles, JSE rules regarding external reporting requirements (preferred).
- Knowledge financial statement preparation
- An understanding of actuarial valuation results in an insurance regulatory environment

**Duties & Responsibilities**

**Internal Process**

**Project manage the external audit process**:

- Actively manage and ensure the SADs are reduced.
- Actively follow-up with finance teams regarding completion of statutory AFS.
- Together with the managers of the MMH and MML Group consolidation teams, ensure that timelines are adhered to internally by components and by external audit.
- Ensure overruns are actively managed between components and external audit. EY to provide an overview of overruns on a weekly basis.
- Provide support to the Group Chief Accountant regarding implementation of the joint audit.

**Risk Management and Internal Audit**:

- Actively assist in providing guidance and input to ensure that controls operate effectively.

**Consolidation process**:

- Support the manager of MMH group consolidation and the Group Chief Accountant with cross reviews of consolidation working papers.
- Provide support to the managers of the MMH and MML Group consolidation teams in respect of reporting.
- Assist in identifying areas of the reporting process that requires improvement.
- Assist in reviewing the summary financial statements, shareholders segment results report, the consolidated AFS and the Audit Committee papers.

**Other ad hoc requirements**:

- Actively engage with the Sustainability Reporting team to ensure that the IFRS reporting process in respect of the sustainability reporting requirements are met.
- Assist the Group Chief Accountant in managing the audit committee process, i.e.: review minutes of meetings, providing input to the agenda and actively resolve matters arising of previous meetings.
- Provide support in leading CFO forum meetings in instances where the Group Chief Accountant is unable to attend.

**Client Services**
- Continuously monitor turnaround times and quality standards and resolve issues speedily to enhance client service delivery
- Drive client service delivery goal achievement in line with predefined standards in order to ensure that clients receive appropriate advice and after sales service.
- Manage client query processes and ensure that queries are tracked, accurately resolved and used as a mechanism to improve client service and business processes
- Provide regular reports on delivery of services against agreed service level agreements and in terms of overall client targets.
- Provide authoritative, expertise and advice to clients and stakeholders

**People**
- Create a positive work climate and culture to energise employees, give meaning to work, minimise work disruption and maximise employee productivity.
- Demonstrate exemplary leadership behaviour, through personal involvement, commitment and dedication in support of organisational values.
- Select and recruit suitably qualified talent in line with Employment Equity principles and MMI values
- Drive a culture that guides and directs best practice, fostering an environment of continuous learning, improvement and cohesiveness.
- Enable a learning and growth culture whereby information regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas are actively shared between team members.
- Execute effective workforce planning practices to ensure that staffing requirements are accurately forecasted
- Identify employee growth and development needs and schedule interventions to

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