Head Financial Accountant - Centurion at Exxaro Resources

QUALIFICATIONS:

• BCom (Hons) Accounting (Essential/Minimum)
• Chartered Accountant (CA) (Essential/Minimum)
• Management Development Programme (Essential/Minimum)

EXPERIENCE: 

• 6-8 years Relevant Financial/ Accounting exposure; Completed Training and Articles. With Relevant experience in International Financial Reporting Standards, Johannesburg Stock Exchange compliance, Income Tax, Companies Act and additional applicable frameworks. With desired experience in Hyperion Financial Management, relevant Financial or Accounting exposure  (Essential/Minimum)    Operational

REQUIREMENTS: 

• Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)
• Member of Professional Body (Recommended/Desirable)
• Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)
• SA Institute for Chartered Accountants (Essential/Minimum)

Duties & Responsibilities

Business Performance and Operations    

• Provide support in evaluation, implementation and management of systems and processes to meet identified organisational needs
• Statutory reporting for equity-accounted investments, offshore entities, other investments and entities
• Accurate, timeous statutory consolidation and reporting (trail balance, consolidations, variance analysis) at month-end, quarter end, interim/year-end (for actuals, forecast, business plans/budgets as required)
• Trail balance responsibility/monthly reporting for entities allocated
• Assist with completion of group monthly/forecast and budget reasonability checks
• Preparation of interim and annual International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) listing requirements and companies Act compliant annual financial statements
• Preparation and review of subsidiary annual financial statements (where applicable)
• Assist in the quarterly review, half year review, and annual audit of the consolidated financial information with the external auditors
• Board and relevant committee meetings memoranda (and other documents) preparations
• Ensure effective analysis, interpretation and reporting of financial processes according to accounting principles

Compliance, Governance and Assurance    

• Ensure all accounting related services are delivered in accordance with policies, systems and procedures that are legally compliant and adhere to sound corporate governance principles
• Monitor risk
• Ensure all information and reporting has integrity and is in strict compliance with proper accounting standards and principles, the JSE- requirements and applicable legislation and regulations

Customer and Client Relationship Management    

• Manage internal and external relations, including interface with service providers and applicable business units, as well as other functions to ensure that the business needs are met e.g. External auditors/internal auditors/financial statement publishers etc.
• Provide relevant and specialised support to applicable stakeholders
• Establish and maintain relations with stakeholders to ensure optimal Finance efficiency

Functional Excellence    

• Adhere to functional policies, standards, guidelines, procedures, end- to-end processes, tools, templates etc.
• Assist in standardising, simplifying and speeding-up functional processes, eliminating duplication/bureaucracy
• Apply functional best practices, promote sharing of best practices/knowledge
• Assist in the execution of functional excellence initiatives

Functional Management    

• Governance: Ensure function adheres to Group governance, policies, standards, statutory and legal compliance. Entrench a culture of discipline
• Adhere to performance management procedures
• Uphold the Company culture and values within the function
• Foster a climate of effective teamwork and unity (high performing team culture)

Functional support services    

• Assist in executing budget and forecasting activities in order to make sound and informed business decisions
• Ensure that regulatory reports are prepared in accordance with the appropriate standards
• Assistance with preparation of consolidated annual and interim financial statements, analyst presentation packs and commentary of results
• Preparation of reporting packs (including tax packs) for interim and annual year end reporting, where applicable for entities allocated to the position
• Advices regarding new accounting developments (new IFRS standards) or any other applicable accounting frameworks implementation
• Implementation of new and revised accounting standards for the Exxaro group of companies
• Assist with the accounting treatment and implementation of corporate actions
• Assist with management reporting requirements on a monthly, forecast, budget, interim and annual reporting basis
• Assist with ad hoc accounting and other queries within the Exxaro group of companies

Human resources related    

• Adhere to performance management procedures
• Uphold the Company culture and values within the function
• Foster a climate of effective teamwork and unity (high performing team culture)

Internal Business Processes    

• Identify service performance improvement opportunities associated with area of responsibility
• Establish a culture of benchmarking against external and internal best Practice
• Identifies and manages the implementation of and adherence to legislative and corporate governance principles
• Support business units and other corporate departments by ensuring appropriate stakeholder- and investor relationships towards enhancing the corporate profile

Safe and Healthy Work Environment    

• Maintain and ensure a healthy environment, safe operations practices, ensuring compliance with all applicable Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) policies procedures in line with set standards
• Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in all operations

Systems Infrastructure    

• Use group provided systems and infrastructure to enable improvement and efficiency of services rendered