Senior Financial And BI Accountant X2 at Hollywoodbets

You Bring:

• Completed Matric with English and Mathematics
• Completed an Auditing or Accounting Degree
• Over 4 years of practical auditing /accounting experience
• Computer Literate
• Valid Drivers License

A Bonus To Have:

• 2 years Pastel Evolution knowledge or SQL experience
• Own transport

What You’ll Do For The Brand:

Financial Metrics/Operational Duties

• Work closely with the Group Audit Project Manager/ Group Financial Control Manager
• Understand and evaluate business processes and identify improvement opportunities
• Assist in planning and managing implementation of improvement programs
• Collect and analyse data to detect system weaknesses and identify key and residual risks.
• Generate weekly/monthly betting tax reports supplied to customers and confirm that there are no discrepancies 
• Generate monthly balancing of the account (“BTA”), balancing of the cash (“BTC”) and balances reports (“BR”) supplied to the customer.
• Investigate variances derived from these reports and update the SQL reporting to eliminate these variances.
• Generation of PowerBI dashboards for real time monitoring and reporting.
• Work closely with the development and operational teams to test integrations and new products.
• Oversee the deployment of new software and/or related processes
• Submit a daily report summarising key aspects of the daily sign offs
• Identify and rectify weaknesses within procedures, processes, policies and related internal control frameworks.
• Continuously look to improve efficiency and effectiveness through ongoing learning/development and new techniques
• Perform consulting activities and ad hoc assignments as they arise
• Ability to manage changing priorities and competing demands
• Provide support to the Technical BI reporting Analysts and Financial and BI accountants.
• Ensure deadline is met for relevant tasks
• Work closely with the Business Intelligence team to create automated exception reporting for the monthly financial reports noted above, which can be supplied to the company’s customers
• Timeous and accurate reporting of findings with material value or material risk
• Helping to develop a culture of continuous improvement through process re-engineering and change management

Compliance, Risk and Quality

• Creating, maintaining and enforcing company policies and procedures
• 100% compliance with health and safety regulations (where applicable)
• Compliance with relevant laws and regulations relating to iBranch operations
• Support the Group Audit Project Manager / Group Financial Control Manager regarding the maintenance of the risk register
• Intense focus on quality with regards to communication, capturing, documentation etc
• Maintenance of department process write-ups/ system descriptions and quarterly updating
• Ensure logical saving of all work, templates, etc. monthly and yearly such that each year’s financial records can stand on its own when enquiries/ investigations/audits take place
• Produce high quality, neat, logical, succinct, easy to follow, easy to understand, formula linked work/templates/workbooks/financial models/recons - of which is substantiated by facts with no numbers in the formulas
• Ensure the above (final version) and other documents are chronologically saved/backed up
• Summarise the detailed daily findings on the designated software and submit a daily report to the Group Audit Project Manager / Group Financial Control Manager
• Effectively deal with internal, external, SARS, NCA and BEE auditors
• Promote declaration of all gifts and report suspicious requests to clear queries from departments responding to queries
• To escalate a single shortage of R2k or greater to Group Audit Project Manager / Group Financial Control Manager
• Promote declaration all conflicts of interest upfront
• Promote a culture of confidentiality within the business with regards to the protection of personal information
• Promote a culture of compliance with FICA and AML regulations with regards to reporting of suspicious transactions.
• Ensure all personal information of loan applicants and suppliers and other stakeholders is not shared and is maintained in a secure environment.
• Stay abreast with changes in the relevant industry and changes to relevant Acts/Regulations
• Ensure that relevant Audit Policies, Procedures, Manuals and training manuals are maintained and updated accordingly

Growth and New Markets/Products

• Key supplier relationship management
• Source new products/innovations/robotics/artificial intelligence/predictive analysis
• Development of existing products/software
• Ensure that measures are put in place and steps are taken to achieve short term, medium term,
• long term goals
• Assist with company projects or lead company projects as allocated from time to time

People

• Approval and creation and maintenance of roles and job descriptions and KPIs/KPAs.
• Performance management of team members and disciplinary
• Enforcing ethical, honest, transparent, fair work environment
• Approving and identification of training as and when needed for team members
• Formal setting up of individual team member meetings (Initial meeting to layout the KPIs/KPAs, quarterly tracking meeting, half year review and year-end review
• Adequate recognition of team member efforts and motivation of team members
• Talent retention (through role creation, career path planning)
• Succession planning
• Sustainable morale and team building
• Ethics and fraud workshops
• Recruitment and related interviews
• Induction and comfort or new team members
• Appropriate and fair leave planning
• Monitoring of sick leave
• Approval of leave, bio time, phone usage
• Implementation of HR initiatives
• Monitoring of team member productivity, punctuality, breaks and smoke breaks
• Approving and monitoring of overtime
• Promotion of a healthy work environment