Group Reporting Manager at Robert Walters

• A leading Financial Services Property company is seeking a Group Reporting Manager to join their established finance team in Cape Town. This permanent, office-based opportunity offers you the chance to play a pivotal role in ensuring the accuracy, timeliness, and compliance of group financial reporting. You will work closely with the Head of Finance and collaborate across departments, supporting the business’s disciplined investment approach and long-term value creation. As Group Reporting Manager you will be at the heart of the finance function’s operations, ensuring all aspects of group reporting are delivered accurately and on time.
• The organisation is committed to professional growth and fostering a performance-oriented yet supportive environment. If you are passionate about maintaining robust financial processes and thrive in a collaborative setting where your expertise will directly impact strategic decision-making, this is an ideal next step.

Key qualifications and experience required for the Group Reporting Manager

• CA(SA)
• At least 4-5 years’ post-articles experience
• Financial Services Property Industry experience (advantageous)
• Tax Compliance experience (essential)
• CaseWare experience (advantageous)

Key duties for the Group Reporting Manager

• Prepare and review annual and interim financial statements for the group, ensuring full compliance with JSE listing requirements and adapting to any changes in disclosure standards or outcomes from regulatory monitoring reports.
• Take ownership of integrated and sustainability reports by drafting, reviewing, aligning content with best practices, collaborating with various departments, managing service providers, and preparing preliminary versions for board approval.
• Draft annual financial statements on CaseWare for subsidiary companies while managing externally prepared AFS processes and compiling supporting schedules as needed.
• Compile monthly consolidated reporting packs for management committees including both key financial and non-financial measures, monitor finance team deadlines, analyse actuals versus budgets, prepare UK consolidation and translation entries, and manage preference share capitalisation issues.
• Submit quarterly data returns to StatsSA for multiple entities within the group and prepare compliance certificates related to debt issuances as required.
• Perform or review complex IFRS calculations such as expected credit losses under IFRS 9, borrowing costs under IAS 23, lease smoothing under IFRS 16, derivative mark-to-market valuations, as well as assess impacts of new standards like IFRS 18.
• Draft technical memos assessing the IFRS impact of complex accounting issues arising from new ventures or projects and ensure timely amendments to annual financial statements when applicable.
• Act as primary contact for external auditors during audit cycles while also working with internal audit teams to design, implement, improve, and monitor effective financial controls across the business.
• Prepare tax computations for South African entities including filing provisional and corporation tax returns, monitoring status, preparing distribution assessments for proposed dividends, reviewing VAT reconciliations, liaising with SARS on audits or queries, forecasting tax positions, and engaging external advisors when necessary.

Key skills

• Able to generate clear, well-presented and accurate reports and presentations
• Highly organised and detail-oriented
• Team Player with a solution-oriented mindset
• Appetite for streamlining processes, efficiencies and improvements
• High level of professionalism, integrity, and commitment