Senior Financial and BI Accountant

Skills
JOB DESCRIPTION

• Good communication 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

Responsibilities
Financial Metrics/Operational Duties

• Work closely with the BI information manager Internal Control)
• Understand and evaluate business processes and identify improvement opportunities
• Assist in planning and managing implementation of improvement programs
• Collect and analyse data to detect system weaknesses and identify key and residual risks.
• Generate weekly/monthly betting tax reports supplied to customers and confirm that there are no discrepancies.
• Generate monthly balancing of the account ("BTA"), balancing of the cash ("BTC") and balances reports ("BR") supplied to the customer. Investigate variances derived from these reports and update the SQL reporting to eliminate these variances.
• Generation of PowerBI dashboards for real time monitoring and reporting.
• Work closely with the development and operational teams to test integrations and new products.
• Oversee the deployment of new software and/or related processes
• Submit a daily report summarising 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
• Perform consulting activities and ad hoc assignments as they arise
• Ability to manage changing priorities and competing demands
• Provide support to the Financial and BI accountants
• Ensure deadline is met for relevant tasks
• Work closely with the Business Intelligence team to create automated exception reporting for the monthly financial reports noted above, which can be supplied to the company's customers
• 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

Compliance, risk and quality

• Creating, maintaining and enforcing company policies and procedures
• 100% compliance with health and safety regulations (where applicable)
• Compliance with relevant laws and regulations relating to iBranch operations
• Support the BI and Information Manager (Internal Control) 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.
• Summarise the detailed daily findings on the designated software and submit a daily report to the BI and Information 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
• To escalate a single shortage of R2k or greater to BI and Information Manager (Internal Control)
• 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
• Source new products/innovations/robotics/artificial intelligence/predictive analysis
• 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

People

• Approval and creation and maintenance of roles and job descriptions and KPIs/KPAs
• Performance management of team members and disciplinary
• Enforcing ethical, honest, transparent, fair work environment
• Approving and identification of training as and when needed for team members
• Formal setting up of individual team member meetings (Initial meeting to layout the KPIs/KPAs, quarterly tracking meeting, half year review and year-end review
• Adequate recognition of team member efforts and motivation of team members
• Talent retention (through role creation, career path planning)
• Succession planning
• Sustainable morale and team building
• Ethics and fraud workshops
• Recruitment and related interviews
• Induction and comfort or new team members
• Appropriate and fair leave planning
• Monitoring of sick leave
• Approval of leave, bio time, phone usage
• Implementation of HR initiatives
• Monitoring of team member productivity, punctuality, breaks and smoke breaks
• Approving and monitoring of overtime
• Promotion of a healthy work environment

Qualifications

• Completed SAICA Articles - Advantageous
• +4 years practical auditing/accounting experience - Required
• 2 years Pastel Evolution Knowledge/ SQL experience - Advantageous
• Valid driver's license
• Own Transport - Preferred
• Completed Matric with English and Mathematics
• Completed Auditing/ Accounting degree