Senior Accountant Reporting

Job Requisition ID

12892

Closing Date

3 September 2026

OME

FIN: Finance Southern Africa

Location

Sandton, Gauteng

Purpose of Job

• Provide proactive financial decision support to the business and enable financially prudent decision making
• Support the implementation and application of sound financial management and reporting practices.
• Support effective, accurate, and timely reporting to internal stakeholders.

Key Accountabilities

• Drive the consolidation of the Southern Africa Business P&L to provide a single view of the business.
• Create dashboards to make business performance visible.
• Analyse financial and general operating information to identify trends and opportunities.
• Analyse and validate results versus budget / forecast.
• Communicate monthly reporting requirements and provide guidelines to OME financial teams, driving standardisation and consistency.
• Track the financial results, perform business and producing asset profitability analysis and advise the business on any key risks and vulnerabilities or where they may be need for interventions.
• Prepare a monthly report identifying key results, variances and opportunities to the forecast, budget and prior year.
• Analyse and evaluate the impact of key economic indicators changes on profit expectations.
• Perform variance analysis against annual budget, prior year, previous month and forecasts. Review variance analysis for annual reports.
• Support key deliverables to the Group FP&A team (PVPY, Quarterly BPM, Analyst book information, BPM and Results Announcements Question and Answer documents etc).
• Maintain internal controls over financial reporting.
• Drive continuous improvement in FP&A processes, financial systems and reporting efficiency
• Uses data analytics to generate reports, analyse the results, identify trends and anticipate movements in the results
• Drive compliance and maintain controls regarding adherence to SOX requirements.

Formal Education

• 3-4-year Relevant University Degree

Working Experience

6+ relevant years

Required Personal and Professional Skills

Competencies

Analytics: The systematic computational analysis of data or statistics. Practical knowledge of PowerBI and artificial intelligence tools like Co-pilot will be an added advantage.

Business Acumen: An intuitive and applicable understanding of how a company or unit makes money.  Displays a thorough understanding of what drives profitability.  Maintains a market-focused approach to business.  Keeps an overall big picture understanding of the business and its interrelationships enabling a person to make better business decisions.  The ability to make good business judgments and quick decisions in a manner that is likely to lead to a good outcome.

Financial Management: Demonstrated knowledge and application of Financial Management, the strategic and functional management of the set of processes, customs, policies, laws, and institutions affecting the way the company's finances are directed, administered, and controlled.

Reporting: The ability to access information from databases, forms, and other sources, and prepare reports according to requirements.

Self-Mastery: Takes accountability for driving own growth through developing self-awareness, reflecting, seeking  feedback and self-correcting