Description:
AVI LIMITED is home to many of South Africa’s leading and best-loved brands! Listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and centred on the FMCG market, AVI’s extensive brand portfolio includes more than 50 brands. Our brands span a range of categories including hot beverages, sweet and savoury biscuits and snacks, frozen convenience foods, out-of-home ranges, personal care products, cosmetics, footwear, accessories, and fashion apparel. We have a well-developed Shared Services structure spanning: International, IT, Finance, Logistics, Marketing, Procurement and Field Marketing, which allows us to take advantage of our scale. Our single-minded purpose is our brands’ growth and development. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Group Reporting and Financial Accountant at I&J, Cape Town. The individual will be responsible for the Group Reporting and Financial Accounting.
Line Manager : Finance Manager Group Reporting and Tax
Number of direct reports 0
Job Specification:
- Monthly reporting and accounting:
- Preparation of all consolidation monthly entries
- Prepare the monthly early estimation documents and income statements
- Prepare the full month-end reporting pack with all relevant workings and support
- Assist with answering queries on monthly results and reports
- Preparation of loadshedding schedules
- Preparation of any additional monthly reports
- Quarterly reporting and accounting:
- Preparation of all consolidation quarterly entries
- Preparation of all additional quarterly reports
- Assist with answering queries on quarterly results
- Year-end reporting and accounting:
- Preparation of any additional year-end accounting entries required for group and consolidation
- Preparation of year-end reporting pack with comparatives and additional disclosures
- Preparation of additional reporting requirements for year end
- Assist with answering queries on yearly results
- Dividends:
- Solvency and liquidity work papers
- Accounting entries and arranging for payments
- Assist with declarations to SARS
- Any ad hoc requests / schedules / queries from AVI or internally
- Continuous maintenance and improvement of templates and standard operating procedures.
- Ad-hoc Finance related assistance on various projects that arise in the ordinary course of business to be dealt with effectively and promptly – Assisting all business units across the Group.
- Assist with deregistration's of entities and accounting work
- Audits:
- Assist with external audit requests and process
- Assist with internal audit requests and requirements
- Assist with Information for BBEEE audits
- Preparation of representation letters and additional questionnaires
- Forecast and budget process:
- Quarterly and yearly budget process and full pack preparations & supporting work papers
- Annual Financial Statements:
- Preparation of all entities’ AFS on Draftworx with supporting documentation
- To address all review notes internally (from FM and FD), and from auditors & AVI
- Preparation of related party schedules and support
- Assist with all finalization documentation
- Calculate PIS scores for each entity and report to company secretary
- Conversions of AFS in Draftworx to XBRL format
- Board packs:
- Assist in preparation of work papers, support and presentation slides
- Sagers submissions and support to assist with
- STATS SA submissions and questionnaires to complete
- Direct and indirect taxes:
- Assist Tax accountant in busy times with tax and deferred taxes (especially half year-end, year end, and provisional taxes with tight deadlines)
- Back-up for full Tax accountant position when needed
Minimum Requirements:
Experience:
- SAIPA or SAICA articles with 3 – 5 years post-article experience in a reporting / financial accountant role
- Or 5 – 8 years overall experience in Group Reporting and Financial Accounting for a listed company
Qualifications:
- BCom Accounting Degree at a University (must have majored in Accounting)
- CA (SA) would be advantageous
Additional requirements:
- Draftworx would be an advantageous
- Experience in preparation of income tax returns, VAT returns, provisional tax returns, dividend tax returns and carbon tax returns would be advantageous
- SAP advantageous
- Advanced Excel
- BI reporting advantageous
Requirements:
- Monthly reporting and accounting:
- Preparation of all consolidation monthly entries
- Prepare the monthly early estimation documents and income statements
- Prepare the full month-end reporting pack with all relevant workings and support
- Assist with answering queries on monthly results and reports
- Preparation of loadshedding schedules
- Preparation of any additional monthly reports
- Preparation of all consolidation monthly entries
- Prepare the monthly early estimation documents and income statements
- Prepare the full month-end reporting pack with all relevant workings and support
- Assist with answering queries on monthly results and reports
- Preparation of loadshedding schedules
- Preparation of any additional monthly reports
- Quarterly reporting and accounting:
- Preparation of all consolidation quarterly entries
- Preparation of all additional quarterly reports
- Assist with answering queries on quarterly results
- Preparation of all consolidation quarterly entries
- Preparation of all additional quarterly reports
- Assist with answering queries on quarterly results
- Year-end reporting and accounting:
- Preparation of any additional year-end accounting entries required for group and consolidation
- Preparation of year-end reporting pack with comparatives and additional disclosures
- Preparation of additional reporting requirements for year end
- Assist with answering queries on yearly results
- Preparation of any additional year-end accounting entries required for group and consolidation
- Preparation of year-end reporting pack with comparatives and additional disclosures
- Preparation of additional reporting requirements for year end
- Assist with answering queries on yearly results
- Dividends:
- Solvency and liquidity work papers
- Accounting entries and arranging for payments
- Assist with declarations to SARS
- Any ad hoc requests / schedules / queries from AVI or internally
- Continuous maintenance and improvement of templates and standard operating procedures.
- Ad-hoc Finance related assistance on various projects that arise in the ordinary course of business to be dealt with effectively and promptly – Assisting all business units across the Group.
- Assist with deregistration's of entities and accounting work
- Solvency and liquidity work papers
- Accounting entries and arranging for payments
- Assist with declarations to SARS
- Any ad hoc requests / schedules / queries from AVI or internally
- Continuous maintenance and improvement of templates and standard operating procedures.
- Ad-hoc Finance related assistance on various projects that arise in the ordinary course of business to be dealt with effectively and promptly – Assisting all business units across the Group.
- Assist with deregistration's of entities and accounting work
- Audits:
- Assist with external audit requests and process
- Assist with internal audit requests and requirements
- Assist with Information for BBEEE audits
- Preparation of representation letters and additional questionnaires
- Assist with external audit requests and process
- Assist with internal audit requests and requirements
- Assist with Information for BBEEE audits
- Preparation of representation letters and additional questionnaires
- Forecast and budget process:
- Quarterly and yearly budget process and full pack preparations & supporting work papers
- Quarterly and yearly budget process and full pack preparations & supporting work papers
- Annual Financial Statements:
- Preparation of all entities’ AFS on Draftworx with supporting documentation
- To address all review notes internally (from FM and FD), and from auditors & AVI
- Preparation of related party schedules and support
- Assist with all finalization documentation
- Calculate PIS scores for each entity and report to company secretary
- Conversions of AFS in Draftworx to XBRL format
- Preparation of all entities’ AFS on Draftworx with supporting documentation
- To address all review notes internally (from FM and FD), and from auditors & AVI
- Preparation of related party schedules and support
- Assist with all finalization documentation
- Calculate PIS scores for each entity and report to company secretary
- Conversions of AFS in Draftworx to XBRL format
- Board packs:
- Assist in preparation of work papers, support and presentation slides
- Sagers submissions and support to assist with
- STATS SA submissions and questionnaires to complete
- Assist in preparation of work papers, support and presentation slides
- Sagers submissions and support to assist with
- STATS SA submissions and questionnaires to complete
- Direct and indirect taxes:
- Assist Tax accountant in busy times with tax and deferred taxes (especially half year-end, year end, and provisional taxes with tight deadlines)
- Back-up for full Tax accountant position when needed
- Assist Tax accountant in busy times with tax and deferred taxes (especially half year-end, year end, and provisional taxes with tight deadlines)
- Back-up for full Tax accountant position when needed
- SAIPA or SAICA articles with 3 – 5 years post-article experience in a reporting / financial accountant role
- Or 5 – 8 years overall experience in Group Reporting and Financial Accounting for a listed company
- BCom Accounting Degree at a University (must have majored in Accounting)
- CA (SA) would be advantageous
- Draftworx would be an advantageous
- Experience in preparation of income tax returns, VAT returns, provisional tax returns, dividend tax returns and carbon tax returns would be advantageous
- SAP advantageous
- Advanced Excel
- BI reporting advantageous
19 Feb 2025;
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