Financial Accountant at Engen

Purpose of the Job

• To prepare the financial accounting activities for Group companies in accordance with IFRS to ensure valid, accurate and complete accounting records.

Who You Are:

• You are a financial accountant – you strive to produce timely accurate reporting.
• You keep up to date with changes to all accounting standards.
• You have built capability in others before (formally and informally –through training, feedback and other means) and you enjoy seeing others succeed.
• You enjoy analyzing financial data and seek to understand processes and reasons for variances.
• You have a strong sense of ethics and pay attention to detail.

What You’ll Have Done Before:
Baseline:

• CA (SA) accreditation
• Latest International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Knowledge
• Caseware experience
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Finance function

Advantageous:

• SAP ERP experience
• Management experience
• Exciting Challenges You Might Face in the Role:
• Responsible for implementation of new IFRS standards.
• Accounting for leases in terms of IFRS 16.
• Explain to business the impact of the new standards on financial results.
• Predicting impact of standards in the planning process.

What You’ll be doing:

• Review of general ledger monthly and provide feedback to corporate accountants where required.
• Work with business to understand account balances and ensure validity and accuracy.
• Perform quarterly and year end reporting procedures.
• Responsible for segment of business planning - Balance Sheet.
• Work closely with company auditors to complete company audits in a timely manner.