Financial and BI Accountant

Financial Metrics/Operational Duties

• Work closely with the Group Audit Project Manager/ Group Financial Control Manager.
• Assist Senior financial and BI accountants in performing the functions and to help develop the functions and to help develop the department to meet the needs of the business.
• Understand and evaluate business processes and identify improvement opportunities.
• Assist in planning and managing implementation of improvement programs.
• Investigate and resolve monthly variances between the financial reports.
• Collect and analyze data to detect system weaknesses and identify key and residual risks.
• Work closely with the development and operational teams to test integrations and new products.
• Work on the deployment of new software and/or related processes.
• Submit working papers documenting the daily findings.
• Submit a daily report summarizing key aspects of the daily sign offs.
• Identify and rectify weaknesses within procedures, processes, policies and related internal control frameworks.
• Continuously look to improve efficiency and effectiveness through ongoing learning/development and new techniques.
• Ability to manage changing priorities and competing demands.
• Ensure deadline is met for relevant tasks.
• Timeous and accurate reporting of findings with material value or material risk.
• Helping to develop a culture of continuous improvement through process re-engineering and change management.
• Recommend improvements to further mitigate company risk and improve efficiencies.

Compliance, risk and quality

• Creating, maintaining and enforcing company policies and procedures.
• 100% compliance with health and safety regulations (where applicable).
• Support the Group Audit Project Manager / Group Financial Control Manger regarding the maintenance of the risk register.
• Intense focus on quality with regards to communication, capturing, documentation etc.
• Maintenance of department process write-ups/ system descriptions and quarterly updating.
• Ensure logical saving of all work, templates, etc. monthly. and yearly such that each year's financial records can stand on its own when enquiries/ investigations/audits take place.
• Produce high quality, neat, logical, succinct, easy to follow, easy to understand, formula linked work/templates/workbooks/financial models/recons - of which is substantiated by facts with no numbers in the formulas.
• Ensure the above (final version) and other documents are chronologically saved/backed up.
• Summaries the detailed daily findings on the designated software and submit a daily report to the Group Audit Project Manager / Group Financial Control Manager
• Effectively deal with internal, external, SARS, NCA and BEE auditors
• Promote declaration of all gifts and report suspicious requests to clear queries from departments responding to queries
• Promote declaration all conflicts of interest upfront
• Promote a culture of confidentiality within the business with regards to the protection of personal information
• Promote a culture of compliance with FICA and AML regulations with regards to reporting of suspicious transactions.
• Ensure all personal information of loan applicants and suppliers and other stakeholders is not shared and is maintained in a secure environment.
• Stay abreast with changes in the relevant industry and changes to relevant Acts/Regulations
• Ensure that relevant Audit Policies, Procedures, Manuals and training manuals are maintained and updated accordingly

Growth and new markets/products

• Key supplier relationship management.
• Development of existing products/software.
• Ensure that measures are put in place and steps are taken to achieve short term, medium-term, long-term goals.
• Assist with company projects or lead company projects as allocated from time to time.

Skills

• Good communication skills.
• Strong project management and problem-solving skills.
• Strong analytical and strategic skills
• Demonstrate the ability to pay attention to details and strong presentation skills.
• Demonstrate high energy, enthusiasm and motivation in execution of work.
• Ability to take accountability.
• Demonstrates an exceptional level of customer service.
• Ability to coach and train.
• Demonstrate strong administration skills.
• Very driven and proactive.

• Own Transport
• +1 years practical auditing/accounting /BI experience
• Pastel Evolution Knowledge / SQL