Senior Accountant Reporting at Sasol

Purpose of Job

• Provide proactive financial decision support to the business and enable financially prudent decision making
• Support the implementation and application of sound financial management and reporting practices.
• Support effective, accurate, and timely reporting to internal stakeholders.

Key Accountabilities

• Drive the consolidation of the Southern Africa Business P&L to provide a single view of the business.
• Create dashboards to make business performance visible.
• Analyse financial and general operating information to identify trends and opportunities.
• Analyse and validate results versus budget / forecast.
• Communicate monthly reporting requirements and provide guidelines to OME financial teams, driving standardisation and consistency.
• Track the financial results, perform business and producing asset profitability analysis and advise the business on any key risks and vulnerabilities or where they may be need for interventions.
• Prepare a monthly report identifying key results, variances and opportunities to the forecast, budget and prior year.
• Analyse and evaluate the impact of key economic indicators changes on profit expectations.
• Perform variance analysis against annual budget, prior year, previous month and forecasts. Review variance analysis for annual reports.
• Support key deliverables to the Group FP&A team (PVPY, Quarterly BPM, Analyst book information, BPM and Results Announcements Question and Answer documents etc).
• Maintain internal controls over financial reporting.
• Drive continuous improvement in FP&A processes, financial systems and reporting efficiency
• Uses data analytics to generate reports, analyse the results, identify trends and anticipate movements in the results
• Drive compliance and maintain controls regarding adherence to SOX requirements.

Formal Education

• 3-4-year Relevant University Degree

Working Experience

• 6+ relevant years