Specialist: Financial Accountant at Liberty Group South Africa

Purpose

• To provide specialist advice and support in the maintenance and analysis of financial data in order to provide accurate reports and information to relevant business stakeholders, through the execution of predefined objectives as per agreed SOPs.

Minimum Experience

• 2 - 3 years experience in a similar environment

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree and Professional Qualifications [Level TBA: Pre-2009 was L5] in Finance Economics and Accounting

Additional Minimum Qualifications

Outputs

Process

• Support the auditing process by providing accurate and up to date data in alignment with Org. financial reporting standards and requirements.
• Provide specialist advice and support in area of accountability to ensure that identified solutions and recommendations are appropriate and effective.
• Apply quality assurance principles in order to ensure the authorisation and release of payments in a timely and efficient manner.
• Ensure the accurate and timely reporting on payments, accruals and reconciliations, ensuring a clear audit trail.
• Investigate anomolies and or irregularaties to establish and verify facts that leads to the identification and reduction of risks.
• Assist in the compilation of financial statements in line with the audit file and approved accounting framework related to identified funds.
• Accurately reconcile financial transaction records to supporting documentation in order to enable the verification of the validity of transactions.
• Accountable for the execution of specialised work including the improvement of quality, standards and outputs within defined work routines and operating procedures.
• Proactively solves problems, determines root-cause and applies solutions in line with guidelines and providing the necessary information to solve problems related to area of specialisation.
• Plan for own task execution and advises on improvements related to area of specialisation.