Financial Analyst Vops

Ab Inbev Africa; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 500 000 - 700 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading beverage company in Gauteng seeks a financial role focused on balance sheet management and reporting. Candidates should have a degree in accounting and 3-5 years in an FMCG environment, with strong SAP and Excel skills. Join a team that values passion and talent while striving for operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 - 5 years in FMCG environment managing financial performance.
• End-to-End SAP knowledge or understanding of finance-related modules.
• Strong Excel and reconciliation skills.

Responsibilities

• Oversee processing of information for balance sheet accuracy.
• Manage health of VOPS balance sheet accounts.
• Perform quality balance sheet reconciliations.

Skills

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Problem-solving skills

Time management skills

Education

Degree in accounting or related field

Tools

SAP

MS Office

Excel

Power BI

Job description

Dreaming big is in our DNA.

It's who we are as a company.

It's our culture.

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And more than ever, it's our future.

A future where we're always looking forward.

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A future where we keep dreaming bigger.

We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential.

The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable.

Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?

Thekey purposeof this role is to oversee the processing of information to ensure that the BSC operational excellence and customer service objectives are achieved; to ensure accurate reporting and appropriate governance of all elements contained in the balance sheet.

This position reviews daily activities related to the balance sheet transactional processes ensuring accuracy and validity and reporting.Key Roles and Responsibilities : Managing the health of all VOPS balance sheet accounts in terms of risk, ageing, validity of transactions within the accountsPreparation of monthly and annual General Accounting activities.Preparation of General Accounting, ensuring that journals are accurately and timeously uploaded and processed in Jean.Drive the reduction of manual journal entries (MJE) and maintain Jean tool sustainability.Manage payment of strategic suppliers through the FI payments process.Timely issue of sundry debtor invoices & statements to customers and following up with customers for payment within signed payment term.Responsible for payment allocation on payment receipts as well as matching & clearing of payments and invoices.Preparation of commentary on weekly and monthly age analysis on sundry debtors.Maintaining the master data of sundry debtors.Responsible for resolving customer queries through business escalation process.Administer and timeously clear all open items in SAP to ensure a healthy ageing status.Perform quality balance sheet reconciliations and reporting risks identified.Present and implement corrective action and preventive action for recurring process related issues.Adherence to General Ledger closure deadlines in accordance with management requirements.Help the team and Team Lead in identifying process improvements, excellence and process efficiency opportunities housed in working capital.Assist the team to meet weekly and monthly targets and all relevant SLA's and KPI's.Maintenance of role training documentation.

Assisting in knowledge transfer to new employees within the role.Perform Root Cause analysis for recurring or high severity issues resulting in issue reduction.Identify automation opportunities to improve the way we operate and work closely with technology to leverage system functionalities to improve the process.Adhere to internal control protocols and provide information as required to internal and external audit and adherence and proper documentation for MICS and SOX.Provide visibility of balance sheet key challenges, risk and insights as well as journal risk items to senior management.Trouble shoot issues and share improvement ideas with Team Lead.To ensure accurate reporting and appropriate governance of all elements contained on the balance sheet.Support the Fixed Assets, Intercompany and General accounting teams to ensure compliance with agreed SLA.Prepare functional monthly balance sheet deck for presentation to senior management.Support external audit queries and AFS reporting as required.Key Attributes and Competencies : Ability to be flexible with duties and scope of work including performing ad hoc requests and projects.Ability to build productive working relationships – internally and externally with excellent stakeholder management within the businessStrong interpersonal / business skills and time management skills.Excellent analytical and good problem-solving skillsAbility to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.Ability to uphold confidentiality, integrity and availability of information, records or processes associated with services providedAbility to be flexible with duties and scope of work including performing ad hoc requests and projects.Able to work on own initiative and prioritize workload effectively with effective planning and organizing while meeting deadlines.Help the team and Team Lead in identifying process improvements, excellence and process efficiency opportunities.Strong Business knowledge and commercial acumenUnderstanding of Agile Methodology and Stakeholder Ways of WorkingAligned to Ab-Inbev 10 Principles and leadership capabilities and lives the company's valuesMinimum Requirements : Degree in accounting or related fieldMinimum of 3 - 5 years in FMCG environment and managing financial performance and working capitalEnd-to-End SAP knowledge / understanding of finance related modulesStrong process knowledge and understand general finance processes relating to balance sheet transactionsCompetency in Computer skills (MS Office, Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI), with particularly strong Excel and reconciliation skillsAdditional Information : Band : VIIISAB / ABInBev is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in line with SAB / ABInBev employment equity plan and talent requirements.

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