Financial Accountant - Fixed Term Contract at DigiOutsource

Purpose Of The Role

• This role reports into the Finance Manager for the Support Silo and is responsible for accounting for all transactions, reconciliations, and reporting for the Support Silo and related entities.

Financial Reporting
Duties include, but not limited to:

• Monthly management reports
• Check to ensure that data is posted correctly by product, region, brand.
• Reconcile data imported into NAV to the Audit Report.
• Match all open items in vendors and customers.
• Investigate anomalies and open items timeously and provide necessary feedback to stakeholders.
• Run weekly open item reports and follow up on long outstanding items.
• Calculation of monthly outsource fees and rebates and checking that this agrees to the terms of the contract.
• Posting accruals, and prepayments and ensure that finance assistance has posted invoices.
• Review inventory & travel management report prepared by the finance assistance.
• Assist with the analysis of expenses, with commentary (Opex, IS and Fee files) ensuring all expenses have been categorized and allocated correctly across all business units.
• Review commentary has been added by the creditor's controller for validity.
• Assist with the preparation of monthly income statement files, including commentaries per expense type and brand.
• Posting all intercompany and intergroup billing.
• Fixed asset reporting and recons, ensuring that all assets are correctly captured.
• Run depreciation.
• Run FX.
• Proactively resolve any queries raised.
• Analytical reporting
• Ensure that all relevant data is split by product, region, platform, brand where appropriate.
• Preparation of monthly income statement with relevant commentary.
• Preparation of monthly brand income statement.

Corporate Governance

• Audits
• Preparation of audit files & upload of evidence.
• Liaise with other contributors to ensure completeness of all audit files.
• Liaise with the manager regarding all queries from the external auditors.
• Resolve queries from external auditors in a timely manner.
• SOX/Internal controls
• Ensure that all controls are adhered to, documented, and implemented for SOX/Internal compliance.
• Evidence of internal controls are timeously submitted.
• Tax management and compliance
• Preparation of corporate tax and VAT calculations per entity.
• Prepare all related reporting for annual returns, regulatory reports.
• Reconciliation of all VAT and tax vendors and matching to ensure submission and payments to the authorities have been timeously made.
• Ensure all calculations are submitted for review in a timely manner.
• Effective correspondence with local tax authority and follow up on outstanding items.

Funds And Assets Management

• Cash flow
• Run vendor open items reports weekly and request payment of open items due for payment.
• Check cash available for required payments.
• Ensure timeous supplier and intergroup payments.
• Prepare weekly payments, ensuring that the correct amounts and suppliers are paid.

Robust And Critical Systems And Controls

• Policies and procedures
• Assist in the drafting of process notes detailing how and why monthly tasks are performed to ensure business continuity.

Financials Staffing

• KPI management
• Effectively work as a team with relevant team members.
• Effectively communicate to manager and team members to ensure key deliverables are met on time and potential problems escalated.
• Communicates clearly and effectively at all levels; both internally and externally.
• Effectively feeds information to required members of the team to ensure all important updates are shared appropriately.
• Manages other’s expectations appropriately and proactively communicates any potential problems.
• Bi-annual setting of objectives.

Ad Hoc

• Other ad hoc duties as may be required from time to time in line with business requirements.

Areas Of Responsibility

• Trial balance management of all entities.

Essential Requirements

• BCom financial accounting degree or related qualification and Articles.
• Minimum 5 years’ post-Articles experience in a similar role.
• Advanced Excel experience.
• Demonstrates consistent behavior aligned to the Organizational Performance & Culture.

Advantageous Requirements

• Experience in Navision.
• TM1/Cognos reporting
• IFRS16
• Floqast

Person Specifications

• Accountability and execution
• Adaptability and flexibility
• Effectiveness and delivery
• Initiating action
• Organization and planning
• Communication
• Building relationships
• Team orientation
• Resilience