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