• Professional Registration and Certification: CA(SA)
• Advanced excel skills
• SAP advanced
• Hyperion Experience
• 5 Years of Experience managing role, 8 years of experience minimum
• Must be from a manufacturing environment

 
KNOWLEDGE:
Required            
 

1. Financial accounting management

• Manage, review and control Debtors (local + foreign), creditors (local, foreign, intercompany), cash book, bank recons, Balance sheet recons, good understanding of IFRS.
• Reviewing the trial balance to make sure that all journals are complete and that the trial balance is in line with IFRS requirements.

1. Responsible for Month-end

• Month-end check list.
• Preparing cut-off procedures.
• Finalization of Trial Balance.
• Upload Trial Balance to Hyperion.
• Upload of all supporting schedules into Hyperion.
• Revenue reconciliations
• Month end reporting – Responsible for the overall month end reporting process, which includes reviewing and signing off month end journals, including payroll.
• Reviewing and signing off on month end reporting schedules (management pack), includes notes to the financial statements.
• Discussing month end results with company executive team and answering any questions they have about the results.
• Reviewing month end balance sheet reconciliations and identifying reconciling items that need to be processed and making sure they are processed in the month.

1. Cash flow management

• Completes weekly cash flows forecasts.
• Complete bi-weekly cashflow forecast.
• Discuss the bi-weekly cash-flow with both the CFO and CEO
• Identifies potential liquidity issues in advance.
• Analyzing monthly actual results against forecast and budget and documenting the reasons for variances

1. Reporting

• Hyperion
• Dashboards
• Weekly
• Monthly
• Contribute to management accounts pack.
• Adhoc reporting and analysis.
• Managing intercompany reporting – making sure that the accounts balance with counterparts.

1. Compliance and internal control

• Adherence to local and group policies. Improve & strengthen the internal control environment & governance within Finance and the JOH Plant.

1. TAX

• VAT
• Reviewing and signing off VAT calculation and vat201s.
• Income Tax
• Ensuring timely submission of tax, payments & tax compliance

1. Banking

• Ensuring mandates are current, manage relationship, approving vendor banking details, approving payments, understanding, and taking out forward cover (forex), and proper filling.

1. Other

• Understanding of Annual Financial Statements (AFS) and preparing related schedules.
• Identify areas of improvement in finance, inefficiencies with solutions.
• Meeting with customers or suppliers to discuss payment / documentation issues.
• Supporting corporate on financial accounting reporting & schedules.
• Supporting internal stakeholders (Plant Controller, Other Management).
• Ensure COA is mapped or up to date with Hyperion COA.
• Backup for Management Accountant for key tasks and vice versa.
• Accounts receivable and accounts payable management – ensuring there are no-long outstanding debtors & creditors.
• Managing the working capital – making sure it is within the required group limits. Discuss any deviations with the Business Unit Controller.
• Providing costs [other operating expenses and incomes] input for the income statement monthly forecast
• Monthly discussion of income statement forecast with the finance team and then the executive team
• Prepare the monthly balance sheet and cash flow forecasting, including analysis of changes in the forecast versus the previous forecast and versus budget.
• Prepare the yearly budget for balance sheet accounts [working capital] considering information from income statement budget.
• Fixed asset management.
• Reviewing and recommending financial statements for sign off by the CEO
• Reviewing and signing off income tax calculation and ITR14 and IRP6 submissions.
• Managing the year-end external audit – including preparation of required information and supervising discussions between the auditors and other departments.
• Assisting in the BBBEE audits.
• Providing technical and other training to the finance team.
• Reviewing monthly payroll runs for both waged and salaried employees before releasing the payments in the bank.
• Review and sign off APDP2 submissions to the OEMs, including related audits.
• Liaising with external stakeholders – including banks, ITAC, SARB, Stats SA and SARS.
• Compliance – ensuring the company is compliant with all changes in IFRS and tax legislation and internal company policies.
• Supporting operations departments with finance related activities.
• Banking – ensuring bank mandates are current and managing the relationship with dedicated banker.
• Customers and Suppliers – meeting with customers and suppliers to discuss any issues in the accounts.
• Any adhoc activities as and when required by the global finance team.

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