Management Accountant (Insurance, Contract) at IQbusiness

Job Description

IQbusiness is looking for a well-skilled Management Accountant with Insurance experience. This would be for a contract in the Financial Services space supporting the Head of environment and would require experience and skills in general accounting practices, Processes, legal and risk-related aspects and commercial innovation. 
Requirements:

• Minimum B-degree in Finance and/or accounting.
• CA (SA) or CIMA qualification preferred.
• 3+ years professional financial management experience.
• Experience in executing finance processes.
• Experience in commercial innovation environments.
• Broad Finance including strategic, commercial, legal, risk and operational aspects.
• Understanding of the financial services sector within a professional business environment

Responsibilities:

• Reporting and planning of all financial and management information within finance.
• Continuously seeking ways to improve operations by scaling automated financial processes, and performing deep dives on several topics and trend analyses.
• Crafting financial solutions aligned to all appropriate controls, business financial health and growth objectives.
• Own the process of delivery of high-quality information for regular and ad-hoc enhanced reporting to agreed requirements, timelines, and standards.
• Own and coordinate the core finance processes for the area and contribute to the effectiveness of these processes for the Group
• Develop and implement control procedures as deficiencies or exceptions are identified which support the production of error-free reports. Assess and drive improvement of business accounting practices and policies.
• Validate all financial and management reporting information for flash results, month-end financial results and utilisation and reporting of various key metrics
• Interact with the stakeholders to agree minimum quality standards, as well as an agreed method of communicating and resolving any identified quality deficiencies in the reporting process.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on financial data integrity, accounting processes, reconciliations’, analysis and reporting for end-to-end Financial Management in business area.
• Partner with leaders on financial decisions and implications of business strategies, investments, trade-offs, efficiency, and scale initiatives, including process and systems transformation.
• Ensure alignment of core business with future business and technology changes and align vendor roadmaps to ensure the achievement thereof.