Financial Accountant: SPIN at DigiOutsource

Purpose of the Role:

• This role reports into the Finance Manager: Spin and is responsible for accounting for all transactions, reconciliations and reporting for the client gaming operations and related entities.

Duties include, but not limited to:

Financial reporting:

Monthly management reports

• Check to ensure that data is posted correctly by product, region, platform, brand, and event name.
• Reconcile gaming data imported into NAV to the Player Audit Report.
• Match all open items in gaming-related vendors and customers, excluding cash-in and purchase control balances.
• Investigate anomalies and open items timeously.
• Run weekly open item reports and follow up on long outstanding items.
• Calculation of usage fees and rebates and checking that this agrees to the terms of the contract.
• Posting all invoices, accruals, and prepayments.
• Posting all intercompany and intergroup billing.
• Run depreciation.
• Run FX.
• Proactively resolve any queries raised.

Analytical reporting

• Ensure that all relevant data is split by product, region, platform, brand and game, where appropriate.
• Preparation of monthly income statement with relevant commentary.
• Preparation of monthly regional income statement.

Corporate Governance:

Audits

• Preparation of audit files.
• 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 compliance

• Ensure that all controls are adhered to, documented, and implemented for SOX compliance.

 Tax management and compliance

• Preparation of gaming tax and gaming VAT calculations per region.
• Prepare all gaming-related reporting for annual returns, Regulatory reports etc. for all gaming entities.
• Preparation of all statutory calculations including Corporate Tax, annual returns,
• Regulatory reports etc. for all gaming entities.
• 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.

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.

Areas of responsibility:

• Trial balance management of all entities.

Essential Requirements:

• BCom Financial Accounting degree and completed Articles.
• Minimum 3 years’ post-articles experience.
• Experience in SOX/Internal controls implementation, documentation, and execution.
• Experience in preparing variance analysis commentary.
• Experience in preparing information for multiple concurrent audits.
• Experience in preparing tax and VAT.
• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Demonstrates consistent behaviour aligned to the Organizational Performance & Culture.

Advantageous Requirements:

• Experience in Navision.
• Experience in FloQast.
• Experience in IBM Planning Analytics/TM1/Cognos.

Person Specifications:

• Resilience
• Adaptability and flexibility
• Time management
• Problem Solving
• Initiative
• Accountability and execution
• Effectiveness and delivery
• Organization and planning
• Communication
• Building relationships
• Team orientation