Financial Reporting Head

1 week ago

Johannesburg, South Africa FirstRand Full time

Job Description

To proactively take the lead in the co-ordination and review of the section’s regular output and to manage the underlying Financial Reporting and Control team. This is a key role and will provide the Front Office, and Finance generally, with technical accounting advice and coordinate and run a tight control environment over the Group’s books and records. This position will proactively drive efficiencies within the department and actively participate in any projects to develop the Finance function as a whole and provide support to the Financial Controls Head
- Ensuring timely and accurate reports are prepared and shared in accordance with the Institution’s and Group Accounting policies and respond to any queries that may arise.
- Reporting any instances of non-compliance with local statutory and group guidelines / requirements to the Finance.
- Reviewing reconciliations between the General ledger and other supporting systems.
- Initiating, coordinating and maintaining an up-to-date inventory of fixed assets.
- Reviewing payments/balances and ensuring prompt payments of expense creditor accounts.
- Providing management with regular reports on expense creditor payments and creditor accounts and balances.
- Liaise with internal and external audits, and regulators to ensure that all audit actions points relating to financial controls are implemented in full and on time.
- Participating in preparation of budgets and forecasts for the Institution and ensure budgets and forecasts are reviewed regularly.
- Ensuring compliance with the local corporate, income and other tax regimes e.g. withholding tax, VAT, reverse tax etc.
- Monitoring, evaluating finance projects and giving feedback to the relevant stakeholders.
- Managing staff matters in the Financial Controls, Management Information System and Account payable units of finance department.
- Contributing to maintenance of high professional financial standards in the Institution’s operations.
- Managing a good relationship with other departments to ensure service delivery as per Service Level Agreements (SLA).
- Ability to independently judge the accounting impact of the business, and to provide advice where required.
- Understanding of developments in GAAP and IFRS, and ability to manage the coordination of impact analysis across the business segment/area and communicate the impact to stakeholders.
- Oversight of balance sheet substantiation process, including challenge of existing processes and independent
- peer review of accounts periodically.
- Motivate and get the most out of the team encouraging communication, contribution and commitment from and between team members.
- Ensure workload is evenly distributed within the team and that all processes can be covered during times of absence.

Job Details

Application Closing Date

28/01/24

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