Financial Analyst at The South African Breweries (SAB)

• The Key Purpose of this role is to be responsible for ensuring that the information provided by third party suppliers (FI vendors) is accurate and complete, and that related payments are accurate and recognized within the correct accounting period as well as in line with organizational policies. This role is responsible for engaging with third party suppliers to source billing documents within the correct business cycle. This role summarizes and prepares accounting information to record expenses and accruals relating to third party payments, coordinates approvals and changes requested by the business on billing files and resolves disputes with the business and suppliers.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Manage payment of strategic suppliers through the FI payments process.
• Journal processing for FI payments and other balance sheet related transactions. 
• Preparation of monthly and annual General Accounting activities.
• Preparation of journals, ensuring that journals are accurately and timeously uploaded and processed in SAP.
• Preparation of monthly Balance Sheet reconciliations.
• Administer and timeously clear all open items in SAP to ensure a healthy ageing status.
• Adherence to General Ledger closure deadlines in accordance to management requirements.
• Assist the team to meet weekly and monthly targets and all relevant SLA’s and KPI's.
• Maintenance of role training documentation. Assisting in knowledge transfer to new employees within the role.
• Present and implement corrective action and preventive action for recurring process related issues. Perform Root Cause analysis for recurring or high severity issues resulting in issue reduction. Identify automation opportunities to improve the way we operate and work closely with technology to leverage system functionalities to improve the process.
• Adhere to internal control protocols and provide information as required to internal and external audit.
• Share information as it relates to business requirements.
• Help the team and Team Lead in identifying process improvements, excellence and process efficiency opportunities.
• Present to the Team Lead key challenges, insights and workarounds.
• Trouble shoot issues and share improvement ideas with Team Lead.
• Perform end – to – end accounting activities relating to travel & entertainment expense claims.

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Strong process knowledge;
• Able to work on own initiative and prioritize workload effectively;
• Ability to build productive working relationships – internally and externally;
• Strong interpersonal / business skills and time management skills;
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing;
• Excellent stakeholder management;
• Ability to generate team cooperation;
• Analytical approach / good problem-solving skills;
• Capable of being entrusted with confidential information;
• Ability to be flexible with duties and scope of work.

Minimum Requirements:

• Relevant 3-year university degree in accounting or related field;
• Minimum of 2 years experience in FMCG environment, prior related position experience required;
• Computer skills (MS Office: Excel, PowerPoint, financial systems etc.);
• End to end SAP experience;