Financial Controller at The South African Breweries (SAB)

The Key Purpose of this role is to oversee the processing of information to ensure that the Business Service Centre operational excellence and
customer service objectives are achieved. The role ensures accurate reporting and appropriate governance of all elements contained on the balance sheet, Income Statement and cash flow plus all processes housed in working capital. This position performs activities related to the maintenance of the financial transactions across various systems, including Oracle FCCS, Blackline and SAP.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Manage end to end Account to Report process including financial month end and year end; General Ledger Close, General Accounting, Journal and Balance Sheet Reconciliations, and preparation of other financial information for internal and external reporting or tax accounting purposes
• Responsible for accounting for various transactions including, but not limited to, royalties; dividends; interest; intercompany chargeback requests
• Review FCCS adjustment journals and ensure the information for the financial statement is accurate in the various systems used by the business
• Responsible for the accurate instruction of banking transactions, ensuring that payment information is up to date
• Perform maintenance of the bank account in the accounting system, including the allocation of banking transactions as required
• Review Trial balance for FCCS upload and Cognos reporting with review and investigation of reconciling mismatches
• Review month end revaluation for foreign balances
• Review Balance Sheet Reconciliations for completeness and integrity
• Provide customer support and respond to requests and accounting-related inquires and investigations
• Establishing and enforcing proper accounting methods, policies and principles internally in line with global policies and externally with regards to financial reporting standards
• Primary contact for queries from Global control and Zone control team. Liaise with internal and external auditors
• Ensure compliance with IFRS and provide ongoing financial accounting technical & business support to the zone
• Prepare and present month end reporting packs to stakeholders in line with their expectations
• Ensure weekly and monthly targets are met and all relevant SLA’s and KPI’s
• Assist team in identifying key challenges, continuous process improvements, excellence and process automation and efficiency opportunities to improve the way we operate and work closely with technology to leverage system
• Ensure weekly and monthly targets are met and all relevant SLA’s and KPI’s
• Providing ongoing financial accounting technical & business support to the zone
• Help the team and Team Lead in identifying continuously process improvements, excellence and process efficiency opportunities
• Present to the Team Lead key challenges, insights and work work-around. Maximize efficiency and effectiveness of process area, as the Subject Matter Expert for the process
• Maintenance of role training documentation. Assisting in knowledge transfer to new employees within the role. Assistant train users in completion completion of relevant processes
• Perform Ad hoc requests and projects

Key Competencies and Attributes:

• Able to work on own initiative and prioritize workload effectively.
• Building and influencing diverse teams
• Ability to build productive working relationships – internally and externally
• Strong interpersonal/ business skills and time management skills and the ability to generate team cooperation
• This role requires good communication skills both orally and in writing and will require coordination with multiple teams and stakeholder management
• Inspires, leads, engages, coaches, develops and motivates a team of people/ managers to deliver excellent services to business
• Ability to ensure that the team works efficiently, is customer centric and delivers on business expectations
• Analytical approach/Excellent problem-solving skills, planning and organizing
• Uphold confidentiality, high levels of integrity and honesty on availability of information, records or processes associated with services provided
• Ability to be flexible with duties and scope of work
• Strong intercompany Business knowledge and commercial acumen. Expert technical/ accounting base
• Strong self-management qualities
• Understanding of the Agile Methodology and Ways of Working
• Demonstrate initiative and appropriate levels of assertiveness

Minimum Requirements:

• Degree in accounting or related field, post-graduate qualification will be an advantage.
• Minimum of 3 - 5 years in managing financial performance
• Competency in Computer skills (MS Office, Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI), with particularly strong Excel skills
• Knowledge of Financial Systems, SAP, Syspro, FCCS (Financial Close and Consolidation System, COGNOS system)
• Comprehensive and up to date knowledge of IFRS