• Accounting and maintenance of a complete and accurate general ledger across the subsidiaries, as well as analysis in relation to those areas on a monthly basis.
• Overall responsibility for driving the monthly close process, ensuring that the entities in the group are closed accurately and timeously in line with the Group close objectives each month.
• Work with shared services for financial operations to ensure payroll, AP and AR is correctly reflected in financial reporting.
• Act as a first reviewer on the allocated areas within the close process to ensure the output of the processes above is in line with expectations before Group Finance Manager reviews.
• Balance sheet reconciliations
• Collaborate and support the FP&A function on an ad hoc basis.
• Manage the group audit, as well as regulatory compliance reporting and tax filings. 
• Assist with the statutory audits as it relates to the functions performed at a group level
• Assist with ad hoc requests and prepare any necessary internal reporting as needed. 
• Proactively anticipate and identify issues and design solutions to address them.

Requirements:

• B.Commerce, SAIPA or similar with accounting tertiary education
• Experience as a self-starter who can manage multiple projects in a complex environment with evolving priorities and deadlines.
• Proficiency with Excel analysis and manipulation of large data sets, including use of pivot tables and lookup formulas.
• Strong attention to detail, high degree of accuracy, and the ability to deliver clean and concise outputs.
• Proficient in processing transactions in an ERP system, including Sage Intacct or similar systems such as Netsuite/Quickbooks/Xero
• Strong knowledge of international accounting, reporting and auditing standards.