Assurance Services: Senior Consultant/Assistant Manager: Financial Services at Deloitte

Job Description
About the job:

• A mid to junior to mid-level consultant to team in delivery of services to / at client premises on delegated engagements / projects
• Apply core finance and accounting knowledge in an advisory context to assist our clients in enabling the success of their finance function.
• Improving the effectiveness and performance of finance functions, and finance processes.
• Supporting our clients to improve their controllership close-to-report cycleThis includes assessing their people, processes, and systems.
• Providing practical and pragmatic accounting solutions.
• Supporting clients during disruptive events (large transactions, such as IPO readiness, mergers and acquisitions, divestments, etc.)

Qualifications
Qualifications, Experience and Competencies required:

• Newly qualified CA(SA) or
• B Com Financial accounting degree
• B Com Financial management degree
• B Com IT degree
• And/ or B Com Internal Audit and
• 3-5 years’ work experience
• Knowledge of financial accounting and internal controls or SOX experience

We’re looking for someone with some or more of the following attributes:

• Understanding of finance business processes (“as-is”, gap analysis, documentation, flowcharts)
• Internal controls design and testing to address risks identified within a process
• Experience in finance functions optimisation / improvements with ERP and reporting packages / systems (SAP, Oracle, SAGE, Hyperion, etc) experience.
• Understanding of the chart of accounts structure and design of month-end balance sheet reconciliation process
• Experience with advanced Excel – macros, etc.
• Financial Services experience requiredBanking & Insurance experience an advantage.