Pretoria: FINANCIAL CONTROLLER

About the Role

Our client, an established company within the financial sector, is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Financial Controller to join their team. This role offers an excellent opportunity for an individual with strong planning and organising abilities to grow their career within a reputable organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Procurement and suppliers: Reviewing of primary source documents
• Procurement and suppliers: Ensuring adherence to the Group’s policies, procedures, budget limits and Levels of Authority regarding goods and services procured
• Procurement and suppliers: Completing “checks” on completeness of supporting documentation maintained and ensuring accountants are aware of any shortcomings in this procedure
• Providing feedback to financial manager on any problems
• Assisting in other areas where required

• General accounting records and reconciliations: Reviewing the accounting records to assert whether they are materially valid, accurate and complete
• General accounting records and reconciliations: Providing feedback to financial manager on any problems
• General accounting records and reconciliations: Reviewing the fixed asset registers
• General accounting records and reconciliations: Reviewing periodic records including balance sheet reconciliations
• Preparing reconciliation schedules for more complex account balances and reviewing schedules prepared by bookkeeper and ensuring that the balance sheet is appropriately reconciled
• Primarily responsible for the validity, accuracy and completeness of transactions processed in the accounting records in a consistent manner
• Ensuring the intercompany process is accurate and complete
• Preparing calculations where required of amounts recognised in the accounting records
• Reviews Payroll information with supporting documentation
• Reviews instruction received from Group in relation to specific entity and ensuring instruction is relevant, accurate and understood before actioning
• Providing feedback to financial manager on any problems
• Assisting in other areas where required

• Management information: Reviewing all management information prepared (management accounts, budgets and other) to ensure accuracy and proper analysis thereof
• Management information: Preparing an accurate budget, including the update of forecasts and all supporting schedules timeously
• Management information: Preparing and maintaining all other management information requested by the executive management team
• Developing management information reporting templates
• Assisting in other areas where required

• Sales function: Preparing and maintaining calculations for revenue generated (including supporting documentation)
• Sales function: Performing checks on inputs used for system generated revenue calculations to approved sources (agreements etc)
• Providing feedback to financial manager on any problems
• Updating and maintaining summaries of Assets Under including movements
• Assisting in other areas where required

• Treasury and financial soundness: Reviews functions performed by the bookkeepers and accountants
• Treasury and financial soundness: Taking ownership of the validity, accuracy and completeness of the weekly and long-term cash flow preparation in line with the required timelines
• Preparing calculations to monitor financial soundness requirements for current and future periods (liquidity, cash holdings, CAR & solvency)
• May be required to be a releaser of payments and beneficiaries on the banking platform
• Assisting in other areas where required

• Taxation: Reviews the VAT reconciliations and working papers prepared by the accountants
• Taxation: Escalating any unresolved problems to financial manager
• Reviews the Income tax returns prepared by bookkeepers and accountants
• Reviewing tax computations monthly and income tax return before submission to SARS
• Ensuring that all audit queries are addressed timely and that valid tax clearance is maintained at all times
• Ensuring that payment for all tax types are paid within the prescribed timeframes
• Assisting in other areas where required

• Audit and year-end: Primarily responsible for providing all information to the auditors and Group management timeously
• Audit and year-end: Preparation of annual financial statements
• Special projects: Is primarily responsible for the execution and day-to-day monitoring of the project
• Strategic and other areas: Participates in meetings
• Strategic and other areas: Decision making requires thorough analysis of best practice and research
• Subject matter knowledge is more detailed and on cluster level
• Collaborates and provides feedback for consideration of policies and strategy
• Limited negotiation with peers and subordinates
• Presents/trains peers and subordinates
• Assisting in other areas where required