Corporate Finance Executive Role at BDO South Africa

The main purpose of the role:

The key purpose of this role is to form part of the Corporate Finance team based in South Africa supporting BDO UK in delivering quality Corporate Finance services whilst supporting the audit stream as a specialist. The Corporate Finance Executive will be responsible for the following key activities to achieve the main objectives:

• Planning: Ensure that the Corporate Finance planner is always up to date for personal planning
• Filing: Ensure all job files are neatly closed off with the final master workbook and report separately filed and identifiable.
• Self-development: Maintain necessary SAICA CPD (or other professional body CPD).
• Training: Attend all mandatory BDO training as required and provide on the job guidance and training to trainees.
• Execution: Provide high quality deliverables (and supporting workbooks) within agreed timelines for all engagements.
• Team Communication: Ensure appropriate project communications are maintained (as agreed per project). Ensure spare capacity is communicated as early as possible.
• Client and target relationship management: Ensure all communication is professional and on-brand and contribute to client presentations as required; and
• Feedback: Ensure feedback requests are sent and ratings timeously agreed for all projects delivered upon. Ensure feedback requests received are timeously responded to.

Requirements:

Qualifications:  

• CA (SA) qualification
• Additional relevant certification such FMVA is desirable.

Experience:  

• Minimum 3 years audit articles,
• Post-audit articles experience in audit or corporate finance related role,
• Excellent computer literacy, including MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint,   
• Analysis of financial statements and evaluation of a company's operating data, business performance and determination of proper levels of "working capital" and "capital structure" ratios,
• A good understanding of IFRS and the ability to identify key IFRS issues within a business,  
• Experience in auditing complex valuation sections during or post articles on large or listed entities.

Competencies:  

• Excellent communication / interpersonal skills,
• Commercial orientation
• Excellent report writing skills,  
• Knowledge and innovation, 
• Influencing skills / leadership potential,  
• Entrepreneurial flair, 
• Problem solving potential, highly analytical and decision-making skills,  
• Organisation skills,  
• Energy and drive,
• A strong command of English (both oral and written),   
• Excellent planning and organising abilities,   
• Ability to work under pressure and achieve internal reporting deadlines,   
• Have a strong commitment to excellence and personal and professional growth,
• Have demonstrated an excellent academic record with a high aptitude for financial analysis.   
• Ability to carrying out basic financial modelling, then developing and presenting results.
• Contribute to competitive bid proposals and formal presentations.