Snr Accountant FP&A (107888) at Sasol

Short Description / Purpose of Job
Manage and provide a comprehensive management accounting service which facilitates the decision-making process related to business direction and participate in the day-to-day execution of financial related activities. Provide continuous input into financial and business decision-making at a tactical / operational level.

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Analyse financial and general operating information to identify trends and opportunities.
• Assess the impact of changes in pricing, sales volume and costs that affect profitability at a Sasol Group level.
• Appraise operating results in terms of costs, budgets, operating policies, trends and increased profit opportunities, and cost minimisation.
• Perform business analysis to support strategic decisions.
• Analyse and evaluate the impact of changes to key economic indicators on profit expectations.
• Prepare reconciliations on profit results.
• Conduct variance analysis of current results against annual budget, prior year and forecasts and assess reasonability of reports.
• Prepare Segmental reporting and analyse results.
• Consolidate monthly reports from business units.
• Prepare input into the half year and year end analyst book for review. Support in ensuring sufficient, accurate and relevant information is provided to allow analysts and shareholders to accurately model Sasol’s results and inform investment decisions.
• Produce monthly and quarterly reports identifying key results, variances and risks to forecast.
• Compile group results for presentations of actuals, budget and forecast.
• Responsible for the actuals, forecast and budget assumptions, including system support to colleagues across the Sasol business.
• Prepare OneStream, CDM and TM1 reports and BU templates for monthly, forecast and budget processes.
• Manage data in Scenario Modelling tools.
• Compliance - maintain controls regarding adherence to SOX 404 requirements, and perform SOX controls testing.
• Identify improvements and changes required in performing responsibilities.
• Provide support for ad-hoc requests and projects.

Formal Education

• B.Com Hons Accounting / CTA
• B.Com / BTech Acc

Min Experience

• 6 years relevant experience

Certification & Professional Membership

• CA(SA) (preferred)

Competencies

• Business Acumen: An intuitive and applicable understanding of how a company or unit makes money.  Displays a thorough understanding of what drives profitability.  Maintains a market-focused approach to business. Keeps an overall big picture understanding of the business and its interrelationships enabling a person to make better business decisions.The ability to make good business judgments and quick decisions in a manner that is likely to lead to a good outcome.
• Critical reasoning: The action of critically thinking about something in a logical, sensible way and taking all factors into consideration.
• Data Management: Knowledgeable of the theory, purpose, architecture and design of the management, administration and relationships of the organisation's data.
• Financial Management: Demonstrated knowledge and application of Financial Management, the strategic and functional management of the set of processes, customs, policies, laws, and institutions affecting the way the company's finances are directed, administered, and controlled.
• Reporting: The ability to access information from databases, forms, and other sources, and prepare reports according to requirements.
• Self-Mastery: Takes accountability for driving own growth through developing self-awareness, reflecting, seeking feedback and self-correcting.
• Strategy: The direction and scope of an organisation or subject (e.g., information technology, transportation, finance, marketing, product) over the long-term which achieves advantage for the organisation through its configuration of resources within a challenging environment, to meet the needs of markets and to fulfil stakeholder expectations.

Closing Date: 6th, April 2022