Senior Accountant | Reporting at Sasol

Purpose of Job

• To manage and provide a comprehensive management and financial accounting service that supports tactical and operational decision-making. This role plays a key part in the execution of financial activities and contributes to the financial and strategic direction of the business through insightful analysis, forecasting, and reporting.

Key Accountabilities

• Identify and monitor KPIs to measure consolidated business performance; develop dashboards to enhance visibility.
• Lead scenario planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes to support sound financial decision-making.
• Provide input into target setting and coordinate financial and non-financial stakeholders across the business unit.
• Prepare scenario analyses to assess the impact of actual results against budgeted expectations.
• Coordinate and report on cash flow forecasting, including reconciliations.
• Analyse and validate budget and forecast outcomes against targets.
• Compile monthly reports for BU EXCO, highlighting key results, variances, and opportunities.
• Use data analytics to identify trends and anticipate financial movements.
• Evaluate the impact of economic indicators on profit expectations.
• Conduct variance analysis against budget, prior year, previous month, and forecasts.
• Prepare key deliverables for Group FP&A (e.g., PVPY, Quarterly PSM, Analyst Book, Roadshow files).
• Collect and consolidate data from OMEs to support Southern Africa break-even analysis and maintain the break-even model.
• Prepare financial presentations, forecasts, and scenario analyses for strategic conferences.
• Ensure internal controls over financial reporting are maintained and adhered to.

RCP / Capital Reporting

• Ensure the RCP calendar is updated and distributed via email daily, especially around month-end timelines.
• Update the RCP template and send to Financial Accountants for monthly capex actuals input.
• Consolidate labour files across all entities and update the HC slide with actuals vs LFC vs budget.
• Update four Capex slides with the latest year-to-date actuals.
• Populate the Value Drivers template and provide variance explanations (e.g., volumes, Opex per Boe, HD CFC Capex).
• Submit monthly actuals per entity to Masego.
• Distribute RCP for feedback on variance explanations.
• Submit Capex slides to NM for inclusion in the ROAS SVP Capital Report (2 reports), including monthly tables and bar graphs.
• Copy slides into the SVP report as received from business Financial Accountants.
• Submit HC data to the reporting team.
• Submit monthly actuals per project to Masego.
• Update and submit RCP actuals to Group via Onestream.
• Distribute RCP year-to-date actuals and variance explanations to relevant stakeholders.

Budgets and Forecasts (FC)

• Distribute budget and forecast (FC) rates to the business based on Onestream downloads.
• Complete budget and FC submissions for labour (ZA66).
• Complete budget and FC submissions for RCP Capex.
• Update Onestream with RCP-related budget and FC data.
• Distribute the updated RCP to Financial Accountants for review and input.

Adhoc Responsibilities

• Perform monthly interest capitalisation (Interest Cap) calculations.
• Complete timewriting inputs for PCO (Project Costing Office) calculations.
• Calculate and maintain the Short-Term Incentive (STI) provision.
• Determine and update new timewriting rates for the upcoming financial year.

Formal Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or a related field/ BTech (required)
• CA(SA) or CTA qualification (advantageous)

Working Experience

• Minimum of 6 years of relevant experience in financial reporting, management accounting, or a related field.

Deadline:29th August,2025