Supervisor Finance Consolidations - Westonaria Local Municipality

Minimum Qualifications · EXTERNAL - NQF6 (Diploma) in Accounting, Finance, or related field with at least 3 years' experience in appropriate financial accounting and reporting field · INTERNAL - NQF 4 (National Senior Certificate or Grade 12 or National Senior Certificate for Adu ...

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Minimum Qualifications

EXTERNAL - NQF6 (Diploma) in Accounting, Finance, or related field with at least 3 years' experience in appropriate financial accounting and reporting field
INTERNAL - NQF 4 (National Senior Certificate or Grade 12 or National Senior Certificate for Adults) with Mathematics and preferably with Accounting

Requirements

Be medically fit to work in the specific business area.
Have a clear security screening record.
Have a clear credit record.
Have a valid driver's license (if applicable).

Have at least 5 years' experience in appropriate financial and costing field OR have at least 3 years' experience in an appropriate financial and costing field or experience in an Intern programme.

Advantageous Qualifications

Have NQF 6 (Diploma or Advanced Certificate) in Accounting or Finance, or related field

Key Responsibilities

Ensuring all entities submit Tax packs quarterly and reviewing of the Tax packs submitted.
Ensuring all entities submit PM files and completing the checklist for the relevant period ie. monthly; quarterly; half-year etc.

Ensure that all additional schedules, MRL and checklists are submitted on time, and have been completed accurately per the Group Instructions for half-year and year end.

Preparing the consolidated summary of additional information schedule for half-year and year-end
Administration and co-ordination to ensure that any outstanding packs, schedules or submissions are followed up.
Performing monthly consolidation checks.
Preparing selected PM consolidation packs with supporting workings on a monthly and quarterly basis.
Reviewing the accuracy of PM packs prior to loading on the consolidation system monthly.
Roll forward of the new month-end on SharePoint and on InforPM System (closing the prior period and clearing mappings before loading PM packs)

Rolling of the PM consolidation packs for the budget and year end with a review of packs received prior to loading on the consolidation system.

Preparing reports on a monthly and quarterly basis

Ad-hoc tasks and related projects including selected tasks which may include job rotation in other areas within the Group Financial Reporting department to allow for development.

Accurately roll forward of all Subsidiary and Trust financial statements
Accurate and timely tagging of all subsidiary financial statements for CIPC purposes
Ensuring compliance with SOX controls
Ad hoc tasks as may be requested by the Superintendent Finance (Group Consolidation)

Additional Requirements

SOX, working on audit client that required a PCAOB audit or working in SOX environment would be beneficial.
Ability to apply IFRS in a mining environment would be beneficial.
Knowledge of the JSE/ Companies Act would be beneficial.
Good general knowledge of IFRS would be beneficial.
Skills to effectively review the accuracy of packs prepared for consolidation purposes (PM packs) prior to consolidation.
Knowledge of consolidation accounting and the technical aspects of a consolidation (NCI, intercompany eliminations, etc.) would be beneficial.
Experience in dealing with operational finance teams would be beneficial.
Possesses a good understanding of accounting.
Computer skills (MS Office, specifically MS Excel).