Financial Planner Reporting

Key Purpose:

The primary purpose of this role is to provide accurate, relevant, timeous and insightful analytical financial information that enhances financial awareness and enables appropriate business decision making.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Preparation of standardised reporting packs for the various stakeholders on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis.
• Review cross functional financial accounting functional data and provide insightful analysis to enable transactional and process optimisation
• Identification of opportunities to eliminate process inefficiencies within the department and implementing solutions that drive continuous process improvement
• Support of financial accounting system enhancement projects to improve the efficiency and effectiveness across the department
• Prepare and report on process compliance across Financial accounting, including but not limited to internal policies, processes, SOX, IFRS, internal and external audit as well as other SA regulatory bodies
• Benchmarking Company financial accounting processes and data against industry best in class business practices, KPI and transformation activities
• Identify and communicate best practice opportunities for implementation
• Develop and roll out standardised reporting templates to facilitate standardisation
• Attendance of stock counts and ensure compliance to hard close and year end procedures
• Assistance with ad-hoc activities within the department

Qualifications and experience:

• BCom Honours or equivalent.
• Chartered Accountant of South Africa (CA(SA)) / Certified Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) with financial group reporting experience.
• 4 years operational finance experience.
• Previous experience in managing a complex reporting function an advantage.
• 3-4 years finance experience in a multinational.