Country Controller

**Job Title**: Country Controller

**Corporate Title**: Assistant Vice President

**Location**: Johannesburg

**Role Description**:
**Daily**:

- Review P&L reporting on a daily basis
- Liaising with Middle Office function offshore
- Review of Estimate to Actual (E2A) commentary, follow up and resolution of E2A issues.
- Review Bank reconciliations
- Review and approval of payments/transfers
- Funding cost calculation and submission
- Liquidity management including ensuring exchange control requirements are adhered to

**Month end close process**:

- Posting of journals relating to month-end close in Oracle
- Cost centre reallocation processes
- Liaising with operations and offshore finance teams in clearing intercompany breaks
- Ownership of funding journal processing
- Substantiation of trading inventory balances, unsettled open position balances,
- Completion of quarterly returns for US Federal Reserve
- Preparation and submission of capital adequacy returns to regulators
- PnL Variance analysis and presentation

**Annual/Bi-Annual**:

- Preparation of Annual financial statements
- Preparation of all annual tax returns/provisional tax returns
- Preparation of the capital forecasts

**Legal entity reporting**:

- Preparation of ad hoc reports required by the management committee and board
- Calculation and submission of various taxes on a monthly/Bi-Annual/Annual basis

**Balance sheet reconciliations**:

- Ensure that monthly balance sheet substantiation processes strictly adhered to establish and maintain best in class processes for accounts under control.

**Other functions**:

- Project work - ad-hoc projects mainly around process improvement forms a key part of the work requirement.
- Cover for other finance functions when required

**The Team**:

- The South Africa finance team consists of 4 people including this role and has existed for many years with the team itself being experienced in South African broker dealers as well working with international teams. The SA team fits into the global financial control team reporting into the UK, however differing from the UK as the SA finance team is responsible for full CFO functions including but not limited to tax, treasury, broker dealer middle office, regulatory reporting and accounts payable_

**Key skills**:
**Education requirements**:

- Chartered Accountant (South Africa)

**Competencies**:

- Strong IFRS and Tax knowledge
- Goal driven and proactive in dealing with matters; must display level of urgency in getting things done.
- Good team player - able to work well within a small team
- High proficiency in Microsoft Excel (Good knowledge on Pivot tables, V lookups, etc essential)
- Adaptable and willingness of assist with duties not necessarily falling within the Finance ambit (i.e. BEE verification processes, contracts reviews and custody, etc)
- Energetic, enthusiastic and looking to build a career within Finance in the FS space.
- JSE regulatory reporting experience is desirable
- Working knowledge of IFRS
- A good understanding of accounting systems. Experience of Oracle and SAP an advantage
- Prior experience in using BDA advantageous
- Ability to interact and articulate with senior staff locally and offshore telephonically
- Ability to multi-task and prioritise effectively i.e. dealing with routine tasks, assigned projects and addressing queries
- Thrives under pressure with strict adherence to deadlines
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong analytical skills
- able to interpret financial data and decipher impact on the business decision-making process

**Bank of America**:
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**Job Band**:
H5

**Shift**:
**Hours Per Week**:
40

**Weekly Schedule**:
**Referral Bonus Amount**:
0