Senior Financial Accountant - Pinelands at Old Mutual South Africa

Job Description

This role is for a senior financial accountant position in the Old Mutual Investment Services (Pty) Ltd (“OMIS”) finance team and will support OMIS by being responsible for financial accounting for statutory and management purposes. The financial accountant will be expected to provide support to the financial manager and coach and guide the financial accountant and assistant financial accountants in the team.

This role requires an initiative-taking individual that enjoys engaging with various stakeholders across the organisation on various OMIS related matters. The successful candidate will be required to partner with the team in modernising and strengthening our control environment and all required reporting. The candidate also needs to have a demonstrable affinity to work with process automation, reporting efficiencies, and improvements.

The role includes the following responsibilities:

• Supporting the Financial Manager on the interpretation of complex financial data and predictive results, providing commentary on financial results and implications and advises on corrective action to be taken (financial reporting and management reporting).
• Develops, reports on, and interprets profit drivers, cost drivers, KPIs and benchmarks, across business value chain.
• Generating annual financial statements and internal management reports.
• Analyses and reports on variances on reported metrics.
• Interacting with business unit line managers on financial outcomes, expense trends, etc.
• Audit management, tax management, statutory requirements as well as governance and compliance.
• Ensuring tax workings and returns are in line with Group Tax and statutory requirements.
• Supporting the execution of a business plan.
• Accountability for governance and compliance at an operational level.
• Maintaining suitable financial control environment through review of team tasks and implemented controls, with a continuous focus on identifying areas of improvement and actioning those tasks.
• Drive process improvements and simplification in accounting. This includes automation projects and the preparation and maintenance of detailed workflows.
• Providing insights into accounting policies and technical opinions, where relevant.
• Managing of team members, provides training and support to junior staff members, to ensure accurate and timely reporting and effective operational delivery.
• Continuous evaluation of finance processes and driving process optimisation within the team.
• Providing input into adhoc projects, directly within the business or the broader Segment finance team.
• Collaboration with business teams to interpret and understand business processes and understand the related financial implications on business decisions.
• Enhance and improve team and group collaboration efforts.

Qualifications and Experience required:

• CA(SA) with 3+ years post article experience, preferably from a large audit firm. 
• Financial Services, with specific background to asset management experience is preferred.
• HFM experience is desirable.
• Strong Excel skills with an aptitude and eagerness to learn various IT applications and platforms to enable process efficiencies. PowerBi (or similar tools) experience preferred.
• Strong work ethic, self-motivated and demonstrable high standards of achievement.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work in diverse teams as well as independently.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, with multiple priorities and deliveries with tight deadlines.
• Ability to work with complex financial data sets, and provide insights and recommendations.
• Excellent attention to detail.