Senior Accountant | Reporting

Req Job Id

9252

Closing Date

29 August 2025

OME

FIN: Finance Southern Africa 

Geographical Area

Sandton, Gauteng 

Purpose of Job

To manage and provide a comprehensive management and financial accounting service that supports tactical and operational decision-making. This role plays a key part in the execution of financial activities and contributes to the financial and strategic direction of the business through insightful analysis, forecasting, and reporting.

Key Accountabilities

•    Identify and monitor KPIs to measure consolidated business performance; develop dashboards to enhance visibility.
•    Lead scenario planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes to support sound financial decision-making.
•    Provide input into target setting and coordinate financial and non-financial stakeholders across the business unit.
•    Prepare scenario analyses to assess the impact of actual results against budgeted expectations.
•    Coordinate and report on cash flow forecasting, including reconciliations.
•    Analyse and validate budget and forecast outcomes against targets.
•    Compile monthly reports for BU EXCO, highlighting key results, variances, and opportunities.
•    Use data analytics to identify trends and anticipate financial movements.
•    Evaluate the impact of economic indicators on profit expectations.
•    Conduct variance analysis against budget, prior year, previous month, and forecasts.
•    Prepare key deliverables for Group FP&A (e.g., PVPY, Quarterly PSM, Analyst Book, Roadshow files).
•    Collect and consolidate data from OMEs to support Southern Africa break-even analysis and maintain the break-even model.
•    Prepare financial presentations, forecasts, and scenario analyses for strategic conferences.
•    Ensure internal controls over financial reporting are maintained and adhered to.
RCP / Capital Reporting
•    Ensure the RCP calendar is updated and distributed via email daily, especially around month-end timelines.
•    Update the RCP template and send to Financial Accountants for monthly capex actuals input.
•    Consolidate labour files across all entities and update the HC slide with actuals vs LFC vs budget.
•    Update four Capex slides with the latest year-to-date actuals.
•    Populate the Value Drivers template and provide variance explanations (e.g., volumes, Opex per Boe, HD CFC Capex).
•    Submit monthly actuals per entity to Masego.
•    Distribute RCP for feedback on variance explanations.
•    Submit Capex slides to NM for inclusion in the ROAS SVP Capital Report (2 reports), including monthly tables and bar graphs.
•    Copy slides into the SVP report as received from business Financial Accountants.
•    Submit HC data to the reporting team.
•    Submit monthly actuals per project to Masego.
•    Update and submit RCP actuals to Group via Onestream.
•    Distribute RCP year-to-date actuals and variance explanations to relevant stakeholders.
Budgets and Forecasts (FC)
•    Distribute budget and forecast (FC) rates to the business based on Onestream downloads.
•    Complete budget and FC submissions for labour (ZA66).
•    Complete budget and FC submissions for RCP Capex.
•    Update Onestream with RCP-related budget and FC data.
•    Distribute the updated RCP to Financial Accountants for review and input.
Adhoc Responsibilities
•    Perform monthly interest capitalisation (Interest Cap) calculations.
•    Complete timewriting inputs for PCO (Project Costing Office) calculations.
•    Calculate and maintain the Short-Term Incentive (STI) provision.
•    Determine and update new timewriting rates for the upcoming financial year.

Formal Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or a related field/ BTech (required)
CA(SA) or CTA qualification (advantageous)

Working Experience

Minimum of 6 years of relevant experience in financial reporting, management accounting, or a related field.

Required Personal and Professional Skills