Accountant: Job Grade 10: Fixed-Term Contract: SLS: Finance: Statutory Reporting: Bellville at Sanlam Group

What will you do?

• Reporting on the property portfolio for Sanlam Life and performing controls to ensure accuracy of Sanlam Life results.
• Preparation, review and submission of property portfolio financial information from SAP into Hyperion Financial Management (HFM)
• Maintaining HFM manual control checklist for audit purposes
• Process opening fund controls/journals in HFM to ensure that Statement of Changes in Equity (SOCIE) has no validation.
• Processing of intercompany journals for Sanlam Life on HFM to ensure that loan balances in HFM agrees to loan confirmations and SAP.
• Clearing of intercompany mismatch balances/related party balances before phase 1 is promoted on a quarterly basis
• Preparation and submission of regulatory returns of property subsidiaries to external stakeholders, e.g. SARS.
• Completion of Annual Financial Statements (AFS) for property subsidiaries in accordance with accounting standards
• Complete retirement funds AFS on Magic Software for submission to FSCA.
• Completion of allocated notes /webforms for Sanlam Life Group - Properties 
• Preparation of the Related party transactions note for Life Co AFS
• Assist with ad hoc financial tasks and HFM related queries from the team
• Maintain journal register to ensure compliance with the Group journal policy
• Log JIRA requests 

What will make you successful in this role?

Statutory reporting for the property subsidiary data and reporting on HFM:

• Process opening fund journals to ensure that Statement of Changes in Equity (SOCIE) has no validations. Any validations relating to divisions the Financial Accountant sends email reminders to the affected
• Divisions to clear SOCIE.
• Mapping of new accounts in FDM and ensure TB loads are loaded on time.
• Ensure that property internal controls are completed on time to ensure validity and accuracy of the Trial Balance/MDA Ledger received from JHI and that Sanlam Life reports to Group Finance Reporting team on
• time.  These controls include MDA to SAP TB Recon, Property Loans Recon, Market and Book Value Recon, Net Income Recon, Fixed equipment Recon, Loose Equipment Recon, Investment Properties
• Recon, McCormick Reallocation journal, Bank Journal, Debtors/Creditors journal and Summary of Property values for internal purposes. All these controls need to be performed to ensure SL results are accurate and ultimately Group results also.
• Completion of group reporting webforms for Sanlam Life(group) and to enable overall group reporting as well at a Sanlam Limited level – the financial accountant completes the following HFM Webforms or Notes to ensure a complete SL financial disclosure:
• Owner Occupied Note
• Investment Properties
• Property Sensitivity Analysis
• HFM journal for Straight-lining rental adjustment
• Signed/Audited property subsidiary financial statements of the Sanlam life group – The financial accountant is responsible to produce annual financial statements for Phoenix Industrial Park Pty (Ltd). San Lameer Pty (Ltd) and Rycklof Beleggings Pty (Ltd).
• Regulatory returns for submission to South African Revenue Services and CIPC – Income Tax return (ITR 14), Provisional Tax return (IRP6) and Value Added Tax return (VAT201).
• Admin and safe keeping of relevant documents for audit purposes – Maintain Journal register, FDM reports, Audit Control manual checklist.

Qualification and Experience

• B-com accounting degree/B-tech
• Minimum of 3 years relevant experience
• Financial reporting experience in a financial services environment
• Communication with various stakeholders
• SAP and HFM
• Excel
• Understanding complex group structures

Knowledge and Skills

• Good technical accounting knowledge.
• Accounting and tax knowledge.
• Knowledge of the group structure, 
• Knowledge of the insurance industry
• Advanced excel 
• Financial reporting 
• Problem-solving skills 
• Analytical skills
• Software Proficiency
• Ability to work within strict deadlines
• Business writing skills
• Stakeholder management

Personal Attributes

• Effective communication 
• Decision quality
• Analytical thinking
• Concern for accuracy
• Plans and aligns 

The closing date is 15 June 2026.