IFRS Advisory Services Manager at FirstRand Corporate Centre

Job Description

To provide operations and corporate governance administrative services, ensuring that work in relation to stakeholders is undertaken at the appropriate level and in accordance with internal service delivery levels. Provide administrative assistance across the operations, administration and corporate governance processes, structures of the company secretarial team.

• Formulate SLA principles for communication and adoption with business entities to account for the services provided by the Company Secretary’s Office (CSO).
• Curate the service offering for each SLA to address the business requirements from CSO.
• Calculate the formula for cost allocation across the group.
• Draft SLAs in alignment with CSO team and negotiating with business on costs for each financial year.
• Cost justification and continuous adjustment across the group as and when required.
• Conduct market benchmark of CSO fees charged analysis and segregation of data for users of CSOs services.
• Confirm SLA and general expense recoveries costs, preparation of invoices and journal entries across the SLA landscape.
• Manage processing of supplier/vendor costs, weekly, monthly, annually.
• Preparation of budget analysis, costs reporting and cost allocation.
• Advise on streamlining on procurement processing to improve efficiencies and processes.
• Keep accurate appointment and information of Directors and Consultant for quarterly payments.
• Alignment of meetings landscape occurrence per quarter for accurate creation of pro-forma invoices.
• Preparation and consolidation of quarterly earnings
• Issue invoices for processing, manage tracking and reporting process.
• Engage stakeholder to validate earnings per quarter, including external auditors and adhoc enquiries.
• Calculation and confirmation of annual earnings of Directors across various entities and group.
• Assist the Corporate Secretary Governance Head and Company Secretariat team, as required.
• Perform company secretarial, statutory, and administrative functions to meet regulatory compliance, governance, and industry best practice standards.
• Assist with project co-ordination for the corporate governance report, research, and statistical analysis of data for various elements of corporate governance.
• Provide support and assistance with the annual general meeting planning, and other governance or internal meetings.
• Keeping up to date with any regulatory developments and policies that might affect the organisation and assist with collating input and preparing comment on draft legislation.
• Assist in drafting and processing required resolutions in accordance with relevant legislative requirements, including but not limited to the Companies Act, JSE and Debt Listings, Banks Act.
• Support with the submission of prescribed statutory returns and compliance with administrative regulations as required by the Companies Act, Banks Act, JSE LR.
• Assist in the regular review of governance processes including existing processes and implementing changes, documenting new processes and procedures to support compliance, continuous improvement, and innovative best practice in governance.
• Respond to the external audit requests by providing evidence of statutory compliance as and when required.
• Draft professional and accurate minutes, chairman notes, and various resolutions as required and for meetings allocated.
• Build working relationships across teams and functional lines to enhance work delivery, collaboration, and innovation
• Communicate with stakeholders (internal and external) to provide and retrieve accurate information.
• Manage stakeholder relationships to maintain a high service delivery standard.
• Consult with external auditors in respect of the statutory audit, where necessary.