Group Financial Accountant - Westville at Boxer Superstores

General description

• Overall responsibility for completeness, accuracy and timely completion of all financial statements, including the annual report, in the Boxer Group, ensuring technical compliance with Companies Act, IFRS and JSE listing requirements. Creating a centre of excellence of technical and regulatory knowledge, applicable to all financial information matters across the Group as a whole.
• The Group Financial Accountant (GFA) drives innovation in the financial reporting landscape. The GFA ensures that the cost and effort of regulatory compliance is managed to get maximum benefit for the Boxer Group taking into account stakeholder needs and requirements. 
• New regulatory requirements are analysed timeously to ensure that systems and process across the Group (including all subsidiaries) are adjusted to assist in easy implementation of new compliance requirements.
• Reporting structure: Reporting to the Head of External Finance

Minimum Requirements    

• CA(SA)
• 2 to 4 years of post-qualification experience
• Experience in a JSE listed company advantageous
• Management accounting experience advantageous
• Financial and tax regulatory experience advantageous
• PowerPoint experience
• Microsoft Excel intermediate
• BPC / SAP advantageous

Core competencies

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Problem solving and analytical thinking skills
• Pro-active approach to implementation of changes in operational and accounting requirements
• Strong sense of accountability and excellence
• Ability to effectively multitask
• Well organised with strong attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Ability to follow process and procedure
• Strong sense of self investment and growth in knowledge of Group
• Good teamwork skills, with the ability to develop strong relationships and to work collaboratively within the Group

Duties and Responsibilities    
Key responsibilities

• Responsible for the bi-annual and annual end to end external Group reporting process, ensuring compliance with all relevant regulatory requirements (IFRS, Company’s Act, JSE listing requirements etc.) and ensuring reporting timelines are strictly adhered to
• Responsible for the bi-annual timeline completion of the full suite of financial publications, with timeous submission to the JSE and shareholders
• Responsible for all financial information contained in the annual and interim external suite of financial publications (IAR, AFS, summarised AFS, shareholders booklets, SENS announcements etc.), including all supporting schedules and notes to the financial statements and accounting policies
• Responsible for a timely and efficient typesetting process of all external financial publications - ensuring continuous innovation and improvement in typesetting process, ensuring costs are kept to a minimum
• Responsible for the completion of statutory annual financial statements of all entities within the Group, ensuring that the general ledger caters for this process and that no manual intervention or adjustments are needed. If needed, the GFA will investigate and drive the implementation of new processes to ensure that this requirement is met
• Ensuring the compliance of all statutory annual financial statements with regulatory requirements. Communicating annually (and ad hoc when required by new IFRS events) technical guidelines to the finance team of current and future technical IFRS requirements
• Group Financial Technical champion - informing accountants throughout the Group of technical updates, create and manage the interpretation papers of IFRS or other regulatory requirements by compiling the inputs of all relevant parties and managing feedback from the external auditors, and ensuring implementation of new accounting standards across the Group
• Assisting with the calculation and proposal of dividend declarations and run end to end process. Processing all journals on SAP and related systems ensuring that legal and tax requirements are met, initialising and driving the process and initiating the interaction with the legal and tax departments.
• Control and maintain all consol journals, ensuring an understanding of each journal posted
• Control and maintain general ledger account hierarchy, ensuring consistent and appropriate use within the group
• Control and maintain intergroup balances and transactions, ensuring appropriate process are maintained to enhance the consolidation process of ensuring that all intergroup balances and transactions are eliminated on consolidation
• Calculate and supply profit forecasts for all provisional tax payments at the relevant time periods
• Assist with all informational queries regulatory or legal bodies in reference to financial information published in the annual report or statutory AFS
• Ensuring that all BEE reporting relating to financial information is supplied in line with required timelines
• Providing regular and direct assistance to the CFO regarding regulatory financial reporting
• To identify and alert the Head of External Finance of any irregularity, lack of adherence to process and procedures, weakness in internal controls, and any actual or potential concerns arising out of the financial and operational reporting
• Keep up to date with IFRS standards and all accounting concepts, practices, and procedures
• Assist with external analyst/investor queries, as required
• Assist PnP Group Reporting team in meeting Group Reporting deliverables, as required
• Ad hoc tasks as required by Head of External Finance and CFO
• Play a role in tax compliance