Senior Financial Accountant at Old Mutual South Africa

Job Description

The Strategic Planning and Analysis team within Group Finance is looking for a talented and driven individual to support the development of the Old Mutual Limited (OML) business plan, and the subsequent monitoring and tracking of the implementation of this plan through the quarterly forecasts and related incentive processes.

The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.

Key Result Areas:

Monitoring and tracking of performance: Forecasting

• Support the quarterly forecasting process, ensuring insights into performance are well communicated.
• Support the production of the OML quarterly forecast document in conjunction with the Finance communities.
• Assist with making the forecasting process across OML more efficient (e.g. simplifying and standardising it).

Business Planning

• Develop in-depth knowledge and analysis of specific segment performance.
• Support the production of the OML Business Plan document in conjunction with the OML Exco, Strategy and Finance communities.

Remuneration

• Support the quarterly forecasting of STI and LTI outcomes.
• Support the production of the STI and LTI outcome reports with distribution to EXCO, MRC and Remuneration committee.
• Assist in improvement of data analysis, together with the Human Capital team.

Peer Analysis and benchmarking

• Support the production of regular reports comparing OML performance against competitors.
• Identifying and tracking competitor performance and market activity.
• Assists with preparing ad-hoc reports/presentations as requested by senior stakeholders.

Projects

• Support the delivery of project related activities for which the team is responsible (e.g. Shareholder Value Framework, improvements to Enterprise Project management, etc.).
• Production of ad hoc insight papers to support better understanding of the financial drivers of our business.

Qualifications, Skills and Required Experience:

• CA(SA), qualified actuary, or relevant analytical qualification.
• Minimum 3 - 5 years' finance experience post articles.
• Experience in Financial Services required.
• Knowledge of and experience in producing management reporting advantageous.
• High level of computer proficiency.
• Old Mutual experience is not required but would be an advantage.
• Displays a high level of accuracy in his/her work.
• Highly articulate communication ability.
• Strong interpersonal skills and client service orientation.
• Capacity to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• Be enthusiastic and display a positive attitude.
• Ability to integrate complex information.
• Be innovative.
• Maintain confidentiality of all information both from internal and external sources.

Core competencies

• Customer First.
• Execution.
• Collaboration (Relating).
• Innovation (Perspective).
• Leading with Influence.
• Personal Mastery (Learning).
• Strategic.

Skills

• Budgeting, Business Forecasting, Business Planning, Cost Management, Financial Analysis, Financial Reporting, Internal Controls, Management Reporting, Risk Management, Transaction Accounting, Variance Analysis

Education

• Bachelors Degree (B): Actuarial Science (Required), Chartered Accountant (Required)

Closing Date: 16th, June 2022