Fund Accounting Team Leader - - Cape Town City Centre

Key Responsibilities:

Core accounting responsibilities focus on end-of-month/year end closing, preparing periodical profit and loss statements, balance sheets, cashflow statements, budgeting and forecasting and assisting in the audit and AFS.
Deeply embedded in daily business operations, working cross-functionally, and end to end processing.
Need to understand all business processes, front to end, to ensure the appropriate accounting treatment is used.
Reviewing of all month end reporting.
Understanding and involvement in the internal audit reviews across finance, compliance and operations.
Understanding and involvement in the risk reporting.

Qualifications and Skills:

CA (SA) or relevant finance qualification with a minimum of 4-5 years experience.
A strong finance background is the foundation, with knowledge of financial reporting standards (IFRS, GAAP, etc) and all finance function processes.
Analytical and curious mindset, and a natural problem solver is crucial.
Be creative work with the technology, make improvements and enhance the process.
Given that you might be working or even leading small internal projects, strong project management, stakeholder relationship and collaboration skills are vital.
The various relationships you need to manage both internally and externally require excellent interpersonal and communication skills, as youll have to negotiate and manage divergent interests for the sake of the end goal.
Good planning and organisational skills, self-management and enthusiasm are essential, along with the ability to work in changing environments, perhaps under limited guidance and to deadlines.
Knowing data and systems means generating better reports for analysis. Knowing what data is available, where its from, how it can be presented and who or what it can benefit will improve the accuracy of all reporting.

Knowledge on the following regulations would be an advantage: