Manager - Cape Town, South Africa - Sanne

Sanne

Verified Company

Cape Town, South Africa

1 week ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Role Summary:

Key responsibilities:

The brief description outlined above will involve the following specific duties:

Oversight of the timely month end close process for a number of legal entities, ensuring accounting is in line with Group and company policies;
Management of a number of the legal entity audits and ensuring timely submission of financial statements before regulatory deadlines;
Oversight of the production of number of the statutory financial statements;
Oversight of the timely production of a number of the regulatory reports ensuring ongoing compliance with relevant regulatory capital requirements at all times;
Oversight of payment procedures of a number of legal entities ensuring appropriate cash management at all times;
Finance reporting to legal entity boards;
Accounting support for billing and FP&A teams;
Other duties as required.

Skills / experience:

Essential:

Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail;
Good understanding and wellversed in accounting principles and concepts;
Minimum 2 years' post article experience;
High energy, inquisitive and engaged;
Selfmotivated, proactive, resilient, and resourceful;
An ability to work to and meet agreed deadlines;
Ability to work under pressure;
Ability to work on one's own initiative;
Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, both verbal and written in English;
Confident and credible partnering with stakeholders and sponsors to high level and driving broader business engagement in change.

Preferable:

Experience in audit would be ideal, but not necessary;
Interest in financial services eg, fund administration, banking;
Creative thinker with aptitude for diagnosing problems/issues and proposing solutions;
Experience with accounting/financial control mechanisms;
Experience with procurement protocols.