Financial Accounting Manager at TotalEnergies

Job Description

As a Financial Accounting Manager, you will be responsible for the following activities :

HSEQ

• Ensure compliance to safety rules

Accounting and reporting

• Month-end closure
• Quarterly consolidation of Group results
• Preparation of monthly management accounts
• Preparation of quarterly board reports
• Quarterly submission of CAP report to Group
• Ensuring consistency between all monthly, quarterly and annual reports - CAP, APL, Board, Audit Committee and AFS
• Managing of auditors requirements and queries during interim and year-end
• Preparation of annual financial statements
• To ensure business rules for Asset Management are adhered to, and ensure all items in the AUC are followed up with business.
• Ensure that assets have been recorded correctly and the monthly depreciation is inline with Group policy
• Ensure recharges for all entities are accurate and complete
• Responsible for annual training of business for accounting principles
• Review of balance sheet accounts
• Responsible for managing and coordination with the Share Service Centre
• Review the departmental policies and procedures and ensure they are up to date
• Responsible for accounting technical memo

Analysing, controlling and management

• Journal entries to be analysed and reviewed before posting
• Sox compliance
• Preparation of accurate KPI’s and ratios
• Ensure that the team is motivated, trained and strives to provide highest quality of financial reporting (timing, accuracy and consistency)
• To recruit competent staff
• Monitoring team’s performance on an ongoing basis

Business developments

• To participate in information technology projects that have impact on the results of the company.
• To optimise the use of available technology to improve the flow of available information to internal and external stakeholders.
• To identify inefficient processes and drive the implementation of more improved accounting processes

Context and environment

Internal Contacts: Operations, finance, Paris group consolidation department and internal audit.

• Cross functionality required through interaction with other divisions
• Ensuring that financial information is valid, useful, accurate and timeous
• Recommendations to management about internal controls and operational issues. Problem solving.
• Evaluation of information from other departments

External Contacts: External auditors and shareholders.

Candidate profile

As a Financial Accounting Manager, ideally you will possess the following :

alified CA (SA) with 3- 4 years’ post articles experience and work experience of large company

Key Competencies Required

• Deciding and initiating
• Leading and supervising
• Presenting and communicating information
• Learning and researching
• Planning and organising
• Analytical and attention to detail
• High level of integrity and commitment
• Coping with pressure.

Technical Knowledge Or Skills Required

• International Financial reporting Standards (IFRS)
• Caseware
• Good experience and knowledge of SAP and MSOffice
• Year-end reporting and closing procedures.