Corporate Finance - Cape Town at British American Tobacco

WHAT YOU WILL BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR

• Management of external stakeholder relationships, including South African Reserve Bank, Banking Partners, Statistics SA and external auditors
• Review and hygiene of the balance sheet including management of the global open items KPI and bank clearing process.
• Preparation of the Annual Financial Statements and assisting with the group and statutory audit
• Processing of monthly financial accounting entries, including key accounting standard entries relating to IFRS 16, IFRS 2 and IAS 19
• Creation of fixed assets and maintenance of asset register for Corporate Functions
• Operator of monthly SoX controls in the Record to Reporting stream
• Management of the biannual royalty payment process
• Preparation of external reporting packs for statistics purposes
• Preparation of monthly cashflow forecast for intercompany related payments.
• Management of non-trade debtors, intercompany debtors and presentation to National Credit Committee
• Assisting with adhoc global projects and master data user maintenance

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE, SKILLS, AND KNOWLEDGE

• Bachelor of Commerce in Financial Accounting/Reporting.
• Minimum 2 to 3 years’ experience in a corporate accounting environment
• Strong IT skills (required to be capable in working on Accounting software (preferably SAP Financial Modules, Advanced MS Excel),
• The complexity requires an individual with proven potential, and strong management and interpersonal skills.
• Effective leader of new initiatives
• Excellent communication and motivator of change.
• Proactive, persuasive and creative
• Able to demonstrate the need for, and ensure implementation of, appropriate systems, controls and processes.
• Interpersonal skills and communicational ones
• Able to handle large volumes of information and present it in an accurate and relevant format.
• Able to be agile and adaptable to a changing environment