Accountant Regional Maintenance at Sasol

Purpose of Job

• Execute and support management accounting processes within the Business Unit to ensure accurate, complete, and timely financial reporting and analysis.
• Provide reliable financial information, reporting, and financial administration support to cost centre owners and management.
• Ensure compliance with financial policies, accounting standards, governance requirements, and established business processes while contributing to continuous improvement initiatives.

Key Accountabilities
Execute monthly management accounting activities for assigned areas, including but not limited to:

• Prepare monthly management accounting reports within agreed timelines.
• Compile and analyse financial information for assigned cost centres and provide variance explanations for review by senior management.
• Review financial transactions and cost allocations for accuracy and compliance with accounting requirements.
• Process account hygiene corrections and prepare journals where required.
• Review costs for completeness and prepare accrual and provision journals in accordance with approved procedures.
• Prepare assigned general ledger reconciliations accurately and timeously for review.
• Validate general ledger accounts utilised for sundry payments and petty cash transactions.
• Process and support the recovery of FOB costs, intercompany costs, and external recoveries where applicable including related invoicing of work order related recoveries.
• Maintain cost centre and cost-type master data within SAP.
• Support cost centre owners with basic SAP and reporting queries.
• Attend to ad hoc reporting and information requests within agreed timelines.

Support the budgeting and forecasting processes for assigned areas, including but not limited to:

• Assist cost centre owners with the preparation of budgets and forecasts in accordance with approved guidelines.
• Collect, verify, and consolidate financial information required for budgets and forecasts.
• Capture budget and forecast information within SAP and supporting systems.
• Perform variance analysis against budget, forecast, and prior-year results.
• Prepare budget and forecast submissions for review by the Manager: Management Accounting.
• Support the preparation of cash flow forecasts for assigned areas.
• Obtain and maintain supporting cost-driver information required for cost recovery calculations.
• Ensure budget and forecast data is complete, accurate, and submitted within required timelines.

Year-End and Half-Year-End Activities

Execute period-end and year-end accounting activities for assigned areas, including but not limited to:

• Verify that account hygiene requirements have been completed and that expenditure is correctly classified.
• Ensure accruals, provisions, and prepayments are accounted for accurately and completely.
• Prepare assigned disclosure schedules and supporting documentation for statutory and management reporting.
• Support audit requests and provide required financial information and reconciliations.
• Perform analytical review activities and investigate significant variances.
• Ensure all year-end and half-year-end deliverables are completed within communicated deadlines.

Governance, Compliance and Continuous Improvement

• Adhere to IFRS, Accounting Manual requirements, internal controls, and governance standards.
• Maintain complete and accurate supporting documentation for all financial activities.
• Identify and escalate financial risks, control weaknesses, or process deviations.
• Participate in process improvement initiatives within the management accounting environment.
• Support knowledge sharing and on-the-job training within the team.
• Foster effective collaboration with finance and operational stakeholders.
• Complete all assigned activities in accordance with agreed service levels and timelines.

Formal Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Management Accounting or equivalent.

Working Experience

• 3 years relevant finance or management accounting experience.