Intercompany Analyst-2

SAB; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 700,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

SAB in South Africa is seeking an Intercompany Accountant to manage end-to-end daily activities for Africa Zone and Global processing, ensuring accurate financial transactions, reporting and governance across the balance sheet and P&L. The role uses SAP and Cognos to support closing and intercompany workflows.

You will prepare intercompany chargebacks, billings, reconciliations and journals, resolve mismatches, and contribute to monthly closings while maintaining audit-ready documentation and

Qualifications

• Degree in accounting or related field; professional qualification is a plus.
• 3–5 years of relevant financial accounting experience in corporate finance.
• Strong knowledge of IFRS and procurement-to-pay processes; SAP/FCCS/Cognos experience.

Responsibilities

• Preparation of intercompany chargeback requests.
• Prepare and execute intercompany billings, payments, netting, and cash applications.
• Prepare intercompany reconciliations and detailed reports for non-finance teams.
• Upload intercompany journals, accruals, recharges and related invoices.
• Investigate reconciling items and clear aged differences.
• Support monthly close for entities and internal/external reporting.

Skills

Analytical

Communication skills

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Organizational skills

Education

Degree in accounting or related field

Post-graduate qualification (advantage)

Tools

SAP

FCCS

Cognos

Power BI

Excel

Job description

Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. 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?

Key Purpose of this role is to perform end to end daily activities related to Africa Zone and Global processing of information to ensure that the Business Service Centre operational excellence and customer service objectives are achieved. The role ensures accurate processing of financial transactions, reporting and appropriate governance of all elements contained on the balance sheet, Income Statement and plus all processes housed in working capital. Financial transactions performed across various systems, including SAP, and Cognos.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Preparation of intercompany chargeback requests
• Prepare and execute intercompany billings, payments, netting, cash application, accrual entries, adjustments and correction entries asneeded
• Prepare account intercompany reconciliations, account analysis and provide detailed transactions to non-finance teams
• Prepare and upload intercompany related journals as required by the business, including accruals; recharges and creating invoices
• Investigate and resolve reconciling items with the aim to clear mismatches and aged items
• Review intercompany charges for completeness and integrity to the process
• Present and implement corrective action and preventativeaction for recurring process related issues.
• Assist the team to meet weekly and monthly targets and all relevant SLA's and KPI's
• Participate in monthly closing for entities including balance sheet, income statement and other financial information for internal andexternal reporting purposes
• Investigate and resolve reconciling intercompany differences on FCCS and Cognos
• Provides customer support and responds torequests and accounting-related inquiries for intercompany processes
• Adhere to internal control protocols and provide information as required to internal and external audit
• Prepare, maintain and archive documentation to satisfy audit and statutory requirements including MICS and Sox controls
• Present to the Team Lead key challenges, insights and workarounds.
• Trouble shoot issues and share improvement ideas with TeamLead
• Maximize efficiency and effectiveness of process area, as the Subject Matter Expert for the process
• Identify automation opportunities to improve the way we operate and work closely with technology to leverage system functionalitiesto improve the process.
• Maintenance of role training documentation.
• Assisting in knowledge transfer to new employees within the role
• Perform Adhoc requests and projects

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Able to work on own initiative and prioritize workload effectively.
• Building and influencing diverse teams including senior management
• Ability to build productive working relationships —internally and externally and stakeholder management
• Strong interpersonal/ business skills and time management skills and the ability to generate team cooperation
• This role requires good communication skills both orally and in writing and will require coordination with multiple teams
• Demonstrate initiative and appropriate levels of assertiveness.
• Good negotiation skills
• Analytical approach/Excellent problem-solving skills, planning and organizing and deliver service to the business
• Uphold confidentiality, high levels of integrity and honesty on availability of information, records or processes associated with services provided
• Ability to be flexible with duties and scope of work.
• Ability to adopt to change
• Strong intercompany Business knowledge andcommercial acumen.
• Expert technical/ accounting base
• Strong self-management qualities.
• Ability to work under pressure
• Understanding of the Agile Methodology and Ways of Working

Minimum Requirements:

• Degree in accounting or related field, post-graduate qualification will be an advantage
• Minimum of 3 -5 years prior related position experience in financial accounting required
• Competency in Computer skills (MS Office, Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI), with particularly strong Excel skills
• Knowledge of Financial Systems, SAP, FCCS (Financial Close and Consolidation System, COGNOS system)
• Comprehensive and up to date knowledge of IFRS will be an advantage
• Strong knowledge of Procurement to Pay processes andquery resolution

Additional Information:

Band: VIII SAB is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in line with SAB employment equity plan and talent requirements. The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/relevant information as criteria for short-listing. The South African Breweries (SAB) has reimagined what a beer company can be and has anchored this in a powerful brand purpose – We Dream Big to Create a Future With More Cheers – which articulates who we are and where we are going. At SAB it’s always about more than the beer. We are driven by our passion to demonstrate the unique power of beer to propel South Africa forward. Since our inception over a century ago, SAB has grown to become South Africa's largest brewer, a powerful economic contributor, a leader in sustainability, and a champion of responsible consumption. SAB is one of South Africa’s admired companies and corporate brands. The company has 7 breweries and 42 depots in South Africa, a total workforce of approximately 5000, and supports a beer economy ‘from seed to sip’ of over 250 000 jobs. Its portfolio of beer brands meets the needs of a wide range of consumers and includes leading brands in beer and beyond such as Castle Lager, Carling Black Label, Corona, Brutal Fruit, and Flying Fish