Accountant

Job Description

To contribute to the functional support for the financial management function. This involves collecting, processing, investigating, understanding and analysing on transactional financial data and information. To ensure the overall integrity and accuracy of the General Ledger as a basis for the preparation of financial and management reports. Recording entries in the general ledger.

Accountable for transactional financial data and information integrity through gathering, analysing, interpreting and reporting of financial information.

Review transactional financial data and information integrity to ensure they accurately reflect the operating results of the business.

Analyse and interpret data in order to provide financial management information to business stakeholders for decision making.

Prepare and process all accounting journals and verify that supporting documentation to journals is available.
Analyse and approve expenditure within mandate and in line with supporting documentation. Identify deviations from policy and escalate to finance manager.

Perform a reasonability test on statutory payments due and verifying records against transactional information by performing calculations using specific formulae and procedures.

Compile monthly financial reports (and business results) and provide relevant commentary.

Compile ad hoc financial reports (and business results) and provide relevant commentary.

Prepare balance sheets, income statements, other reports and insights to summarise and interpret current and projected financial position and performance.

Support the full substantiation of the total balance sheet. Co-ordinate all Internal Financial Control (IFC) and Balance sheet substantiation (BSS) reporting. 

Ensure monthly Value at Risk (VaR) assessments are performed on all balance sheet accounts in the bank and recommend appropriate provisioning requirements. 

Contribute to the budget, revised estimate, forecast and actuals by collecting all the relevant information from the relevant parties and ensuring validity, accuracy and completeness of financial information in the general ledger.

Prepare budget and revised estimate, forecast and actual processes.

Support the business finance teams in creating a finance partnership.

Obtain an understanding of the business environment and processes which are being supported in order to add value and allow for appropriate decision making to occur.

Provide assistance in the gathering of financial and non-financial information to support the relevant finance line manager.

Manage stakeholder expectations appropriately.

Enforce the group guidelines and policies around financial management and financial control.

Ensure that all risk issues are managed properly and incidents are reported timeously with all relevant stakeholders.

Partner and comply with relevant risk and compliance regulatory frameworks for all finance activities.

Ensure reputation and business risk is managed.

Ensure that mandatory compliance training in finance is driven effectively.

Qualifications

Type of Qualification: Qualified Accountant (ACCA/ACA)
Field of Study: Finance and Accounting
Experience Required
Financial/Statutory Accounting
Finance & Value Management
3-4 years
Financial and management accounting experience

Additional Information

Behavioural Competencies:

• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Challenging Ideas
• Checking Details
• Developing Expertise
• Embracing Change
• Examining Information
• Following Procedures
• Interpreting Data
• Managing Tasks
• Meeting Timescales
• Showing Composure
• Team Working