Statutory Reporting Accountant

Our client, a global leader committed to accelerating the transition to a carbon neutral world, operates in more than 30 countries and employs over 98,000 people. The company delivers innovative solutions in energy efficiency, renewable energy, and sustainable infrastructure, with a strong focus on low carbon power generation and customer centric energy solutions. They are seeking a skilled Statutory Reporting Accountant to join their purpose driven team in Johannesburg, South Africa.

• Provide Statutory Reporting services to the organisation that will result in its non disruptive operation
• Timeous Preparation of annual financial statements for all entities within the centralized organization in accordance with IFRS and group accounting policies.
• Process journals entries and prepare reports -CaseWare or SMART.
• Complete statutory returns including but not limited to government statistical reports.
• Drive compliance to audit findings and ensure consistency in adoption of accounting polices across all AFS within centralized organization.
• Reconcile statutory financials with management reporting (e.g., SMART/ERP data). Analyse variances and ensure alignment with general ledger.
• Facilitate and drive together with the financial reporting specialist and HoA the completion and finalization of all audits in their respective years.
• Facilitate appropriate stakeholder engagement to manage audit and month end/year end deliverables within the statutory reporting domain.
• Responsible together with the statutory reporting specialist to submit all SMART (Actuals) reporting for all centralized entities accurately and timeously.

• National Diploma or BComm Degree in Accounting/Financial Management, qualified accountant with additional relevant qualifications - 5 years' experience standard.
• 2-3 years post articles experience.
• At least 5 years' experience in accounting, preferably of a large, combined cycle power plant, 3 of which must have been in the capacity of a Senior accountant - specialisation financial accounting.
• CTA /Honours degree with financial reporting specialisation qualification, with SAICA articles (preferred).
• Must have a high degree of skill in Business Computing Applications such as (CaseWare, Microsoft, excel and word, PowerPoint and Enterprise Resource Planning applications (Maximo/SAP /SMART/or equivalent).
• Technical knowledge of accounting standards of IFRS applied to the IPP business to be able to prepare financial statements in compliance with the standards.
• Knowledge in SPVs within a multinational business environment.

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