Financial Accountant: Group Financial Reporting at Sanlam Group

What will you do?

• This is a specialist management support role within a business unit that does not have any direct reports. This role collaborates with senior managers in Group Office to develop and manage their budgets. They also advise senior managers of the financial implications of decisions and monitor actual performance versus budget and report variances to management. Policy adherence is also managed in this by this individual.

Responsibilities of the job include: 

Reporting:

• Preparing accurate month-end reports for management for each cost centre and area
• Providing insights on the reports to the management
• Prepare monthly account recons
• Prepare monthly SAP journals
• Ensure charge outs are correct and charged to the correct areas timeously considering the previous tax legislations 
• Approval of invoices to ensure proper delegation of authority applied

Budgets & Forecasting:

• Preparation of budgets within the relevant guidance
• Tracking, reporting, and analysing budget variances
• Ensuring any budget deviations are escalated appropriately
• Ensure that regular forecast updates as 

Compliance:

• Ensuring compliance with policies and reporting any deviations to management
• Stakeholder management
• Attending teams’ meetings with the BU’s in Group Office
• Building collaborative relationships across Group Office

What will make you successful in this role?

• Strong communication skills, which include the capacity to communicate both vocally and nonverbally.
• Time management, to balance and prioritise duties in a way that allows you to complete your job on time while still preserving a work-life balance.
• Being detail-oriented, to pay close attention to the smallest of details. Accountants are thorough in their preparation and analysis of financial records. Other soft skills you may consider cultivating include analytical thinking abilities, negotiation skills and interpersonal skills.
• Knowing how to express complex ideas simply may be beneficial, may explain concepts to a variety of audiences.

Qualification and Experience

• Relevant Degree or Diploma
• 3-5 Related industry experience.