Ga Supervisor

Solugrowth (Pty) Ltd.; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Solugrowth (Pty) Ltd. in Gauteng seeks a GA Supervisor to ensure timely and accurate general accounting activities across Anglo American business units. You will support the GA Coordinator and lead a team to deliver quality financial information and maintain a robust control environment.

You will oversee month-end close, balance sheet reconciliations, regulatory returns, and strive for process improvements while coaching the team and ensuring safety and governance standards are met.

Responsibilities

• Lead month-end close activities.
• Review balance sheet reconciliations and report discrepancies.
• Review and submit statutory and regulatory returns by accounting team.
• Coach and develop team; manage performance and succession planning.

Skills

Team leadership

Month-end close

Balance sheet reconciliations

Stakeholder engagement

Performance management

Training and succession planning

Job description

Job title: GA Supervisor

Context: Ensure delivery of in-scope statutory and general accounting activities to Anglo American business units (EMEA).

Purpose of the role: Support the GA Coordinator in delivering timely, accurate and complete financial information to stakeholders. The incumbent will be responsible for supporting a robust control environment.

Key Technical Outputs

Under the leadership of the Financial Reporting Coordinator, complete the following activities in accordance with agreed service levels:

• Responsibility for month-end close activities.
• Ensure the integrity of the balance sheet by reviewing general ledger balance sheet reconciliations, investigate and report on financial discrepancies and overdue items.
• Review and submit all relevant statutory and regulatory returns performed by the accounting team.
• Identify opportunities for innovation and optimisations to drive value and minimise the cost.
• Team supervision, coaching, performance management, training and succession planning. Participating in setting and achieving individual performance and development objectives to support a high performing culture.
• Engage with appropriate stakeholders to deliver on SLA’s.
• Quality review of all deliverables (deadline management).
• Drive adherence to safety.
• Any other tasks as and when required.

Health, Safety & Environment:

• Demonstrate behaviour in line with health, safety and environmental standards and with the Group’s values
• Set the health, safety and environmental expectations for your team and monitor behaviour so that it meets the required standards.
• Participate in relevant safety audits, inspections and observations, and address issues as part of demonstrating safety leadership

People / Leadership:

• Demonstrate behaviour in line with the Group’s values, standards and a professional workplace
• Provide leadership to, and develop the performance of, your team in line with the Group’s policies and systems (e.g. performance management) in order to achieve business goals. As part of this:
• Within the direction set by your leader, develop a clear and aligned plan for your team;
• Foster a constructive and productive working environment;
• Monitor the work of each team member and provide regular and useful feedback to them on how they are
• performing; and
• Drive delivery of objectives holding team members to account for their work.
• Participate as an effective team member in working collaboratively with your leader, peers and relevant others (including from other teams) to achieve business goals
• Monitor the activities of your team which involve other teams and appropriately intervene to address any cross-team issues

Financial:

• Contribute to the development of the budget
• Monitor your costs against budget and either address, or advise your manager of, any variances of note
• Identify any opportunities for improved cost management and either address these, or raise them with your manager, as appropriate

Work Processes:

• Fully understand the policies, processes and systems which apply to your team’s work and provide leadership so that your team works within these
• Identify any issues around these that interfere with the ability of your team to complete work or meet the plan / strategy. For processes within your authority, make the required changes. For others, escape these issues to seek action and / or look for alternative solutions