Snr Statutory Reporting and Technical Accountant - Soshanguve

Deloitte is currently recruiting for a Snr Manager who can assist with Statutory Reporting and Technical Accounting. This will be a 6 month contract assignment, mostly onsite in Midrand.

CORE DESCRIPTION

The key focus is to ensure consistent reporting and no surprises, to support business and financial reporting with increasing investor's confidence. Drive optimization and efficiencies by ensuring that all relevant reporting structures are in place, drive optimizing of financial systems, ensure that all interfaces are accurate and on time.

• Co-ordinate reporting from Line and ensure alignment between operational and financial reports
• Provide a consolidation platform to the FBP-teams for consistent and timeous reporting and access to reports
• Prepare quarterly and annual reports and manage the internal and external review of these documents
• Prepare quarterly earnings release, if required
• Monitor and ensure timely identification and compliance with evolving accounting guidance, provide IFRS interpretation and prepare technical memorandums that document issues in a clear, logical and comprehensive manner; keep client ExCo updated on latest accounting and IFRS trends and views
• Manage communications with external/ internal auditors on financial statements and accounting issues to ensure auditor agreement with company decisions on accounting disclosures, and issues
• Assist in the coordination of annual audit and quarterly review activities of external auditors; coordinate and manage internal- and external audit activities and reporting
• Implement and maintain reporting procedures to comply with internal control & time requirements - provide annual reporting calendar for client in alignment of Group requirements
• Coordinate monthly financial and management reporting processes. Perform continuous assessment of the close process and process re-engineering to reduce the timing to close
• Establish sufficient divisional performance follow up and analyses including pricing, revenue, margins, expenses, operating income and cash flow
• Ensure sufficient financial consequence exposure for the divisions strategic and operational planning and execution
• develop the client macro business & finance plan/ requirements
• maintain a high level strategic business model and provide strategic analysis of BU for target setting and planning

• Manage and coordinate statutory reporting requirements; manage and coordinate the financial reports adhere to all accounting standards and stock exchange regulations
• Inform CFO of emerging trends relevant to strategy and client operations
• Responsible for the facilitation of changes to the compliance risk management plans, co-ordination and facilitation of compliance control self-assessment and monitoring implementation of action plans
• Oversee the JSE attestation process
• Apply a risk-based approach to financial reporting
• Compile financial statements and variance reports, reviewing and analyzing results
• Responsible for delivering a comprehensive, end-to-end Ass