Senior Financial Accountant – Special Projects at Old Mutual

Key Result Areas:

Financial Reporting:

• Prepare and review high-quality AFS for share trusts with no significant SUADs or Audit findings.
• Maintain detailed reconciliations of trust movements and having an in-depth understanding of these movements.
• Generate management reports and analyse variances.
• Provide commentary on results and corrective actions.
• Support external and in ternal audit, ensuring timely completion.    
• High quality HFM submissions.
• Regular check in to SARS e-Filing for correspondences/letters/notices, etc. to ensure timeous response.
• Ensure accurate and valid payments process with all the appropriate authorisations.
• Compliance with governance, regulatory, legal and accounting requirements.

IFRS 2 & ShareForce:

• Responsible for end-to-end IFRS 2 reporting.
• Maintain accuracy of ShareForce data.
• Manage IFRS 2 and ShareForce audit queries.

Share scheme grant cycles:

• Timeously prepare and send preliminary and final grant funding requirements to Employer Company.
• Support Finance and Corporate Secretarial Representatives to support submissions to Board for S45: Financial Assistance resolution.
• Timeously prepare and send final grant funding requirements to TFM in preparation for the purchase process.
• Prepare and send grant funding requests to Employer Company Finance Representatives for timeously payment to ensure cash is available for the purchase of shares.
• Request trade details to prepare SENS announcements and engage with Corporate.

Governance & Compliance:

• Ensure compliance with IFRS, Tax Act, Companies Act.
• Maintain strong financial controls and drive continuous improvements.

Stakeholder Engagement:

• Maintain strong working relationship with the Sharescheme Administration team.
• Developing solutions that work for both teams.
• Maintain strong working relationships with Employer Companies’ finance teams.
• Good planning and working relationship with the tax team to ensure timeous submissions.
• Provide technical and analytical support to Human Capital and Group Finance in developing new incentive structures

People Leadership:

• Lead and develop a team to manage the financial reporting of the share trusts.

Optimisation:

• Simplification of share trust structures together with the simplification team.
• Optimising financial reporting processes including improvements to ShareForce for financial reporting.
• Review accounting treatment across share trusts together with the support of the technical accounting team.

Role Requirements:

• CA(SA) with 10+ years post article experience, with at least 3 years with relevant experience.
• Work experience within OML essential given the complexity of the area.
• Demonstrated strong technical expertise in IFRS and financial reporting
• Experience in Financial Services is essential
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex senior‑level stakeholder relationships
• Advanced computer literacy with strong systems aptitude
• Consistently delivers work of a highly accurate and reliable standard
• Clear, confident, and impactful communicator
• Strong relationship‑building capability with a client‑focused mindset
• Resilient under pressure with the ability to deliver against demanding timelines
• Highly effective in planning, prioritising, and organising work
• Positive, proactive, and solution‑oriented approach