Statutory Controller (Hybrid) at Temenos

THE ROLE

• The role is responsible to deliver statutory reporting and ensure tax compliance for some of MEA entities mainly located in South Africa, Kenya, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. The Controller will provide support across the region to Regional Statutory Controller and will take specific responsibility for managing, advising and supporting the assigned entities in terms of Balance Sheet, P&L and any financial and audit matters/issues.

OPPORTUNITES
Accounting, Internal control and compliance

• You will work actively with business controllers to ensure internal policies, procedures are adhered to.
• You will ensure that internal and external reporting requirements are met.
• You will manage all external audits.
• You will ensure the correct P&L and BS position of the entities on a monthly basis.
• You will ensure an efficient cooperation with the finance function within the SSC.
• You will prepare perioding profit and loss, and balance sheet schedules for review.
• You will check correctness of intercompany entries and balances.
• You will check correctness of project codes allocation.
• You will check time sheets costs allocated to projects expense and management fees estimates.
• You will monitor statutory compliance deadlines and ensure necessary documentations and systems are prepared and updated.
• You will reconcile primary ledger with statutory ledger and provide clear and convincing supporting evidence.

Audit

• You will complete financial statements schedules.
• You will liaise with external auditors and resolve common audit queries You will ensure that internal and external reporting requirements are met.

Tax and transfer pricing

• You will prepare periodic advance income tax estimates.
• You will prepare annual income tax and relevant schedules.
• You will provide transfer pricing documentation and or analyses.
• You will reconcile periodic revenue recognised with billings for VAT assessment.
• You will check correctness of VAT tax codes for AR and AP registers.
• You will ensure direct and indirect tax compliance within the region.
• You will support tax team in case of tax control.
• You will setup/close/merge entities within the region if required by the company and liaise with lawyers, Treasury and Tax to achieve this.

Treasury and procurement

• You will prepare bank letters when required.
• You will prepare cash outflow analysis.
• You will raise purchase requisitions and purchase orders for statutory payments.

REQUIREMENTS

• You should be qualified Accountant with minimum of five years’ experience in Finance/Accounting, preferably in a multinational company in the IT/Software Business environment or in Big 4 (commercial companies).
• You should have IFRS knowledge.
• You should have previous experience with external audits and tax controls.
• You should have in depth understanding of Finance and Business Control requirements in an IT/Software Business environment (contracting).
• You should have advanced knowledge of MS Office suite of applications, particularly Excel.  Knowledge of Oracle 11i is an asset.
• You should be fluent in English; any additional language is considered as an asset.
• You should have key skills: the ability to work autonomously in a multi-cultural environment, the desire to drive change and ensure improvement, a strong team spirit and a pro-active attitude are imperative, oriented results. Manage time to deliver sometimes on short timing.
• You should have good problem solving skills.

 SKILLS

• Care about being a specialist in your field.
• Commit to being an integral part of a first class financial function in your region.
• Collaborate with your team and business stakeholders.
• Challenge yourself to constantly improve your field of knowledge.