Sap Finance And Controlling (Fico)

Blue Pearl; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 300 000 - 600 000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent financial services firm in Johannesburg is seeking a Finance and Controlling professional. The role involves managing bookkeeping, preparing financial reports, and supporting analytical insights for business growth. Candidates should have a BCom degree and strong Excel skills, with a passion for problem-solving and financial strategy. This position offers an opportunity to work closely with clients, driving their financial success.

Qualifications

• BCom degree focused on Accounting or Business with Accounting as a major.
• 3+ years of experience in professional financial management.
• Experience in financial reporting, analysis, and process improvement.

Responsibilities

• Handle general bookkeeping ensuring accurate financial records.
• Assist in the preparation of management reports and forecasts.
• Analyse financial data to support decision making.
• Work with a team to implement financial processes.

Skills

Strong Excel skills

Experience with Xero or other ERP/accounting systems

Organised and detail-oriented

Problem-solving skills

Team player with communication skills

Education

BCom degree (Accounting-focused)

Post Graduate Degree (NQF level no.8+), CA (SA) or CIMA qualification preferred

Job description

Sap Finance And Controlling Fico in Johannesburg

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Johannesburg, Gauteng Elite Search

Posted 23 days ago

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

No two days will be the same! You'll gain hands‑on experience across a wide range of accounting and finance projects, helping entrepreneurs and SMEs get their businesses financially fit and future‑ready.

Your typical day might include:

• Handling general bookkeeping ensuring clients financial records accurate and up to date.
• Rolling up your sleeves to sort out and "clean up" financials that need structure and clarity.
• Analysing financial data to uncover insights supporting team in providing clarity.
• Assisting in the preparation of management reports, budgets, and forecasts.
• Getting involved in financial modelling to support planning and business growth.
• Helping implement financial processes and SOPs that set clients up for long‑term success.
• Working directly with a dynamic team and learning how financial strategy drives real‑world results.
• We're looking for someone whose bright, ambitious, and eager to learn – someone who loves variety and wants to grow their career by working on real‑world business challenges every day.

What you'll need to succeed:

• A BCom degree (Accounting‑focused or Business degree with Accounting as a major).
• Strong Excel skills comfortable using it for analysis, reconciliations, reporting, and insights.
• Experience with Xero (or another ERP/accounting system) would be an advantage.
• Exposure to or involvement in preparing management reports and financial analysis.
• A keen learner who's not afraid to jump in, take initiative, and do what it takes to get the job done whether that's solving a financial puzzle or running out to grab coffee for the team!
• Organised, detail‑oriented, and resilient, with the ability to juggle multiple projects across different clients.
• A curious thinker who enjoys problem‑solving and finding smarter ways to do things.
• A team player with a positive, engaging personality able to communicate clearly and confidently with colleagues and clients.
• A self‑starter who's motivated by growth, thrives in a fast‑paced environment, and is ready to go above and beyond.
• This role is perfect for someone who's ready to learn fast, gain broad experience, and be part of a supportive, high‑performing team that's passionate about making a difference for small businesses.

Specialist: Management Accounting

Posted today

Job Description

Empowering Africa's tomorrow, together…one story at a time. With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary
Specific Role Purpose: Role will be focused on reporting and planning of all financial and management information within finance.

Analysing and reporting of financial information in an accurate, complete and timely manner and providing business with meaningful insights and value‑add perspective to enable decision making.

Continuously seeking ways to improve operations by scaling automated financial processes, performing deep dives on several topics and trend analyses.

Crafting financial solutions aligned to all appropriate controls, business financial health and growth objectives.

• Assist finance manager in developing processes and controls to ensure that the planning process is effective, supports business strategies and completed within the required timelines with the appropriate level of details.
• Build the financial model to support the business plan and ensure the model is in compliance with model governance through annual model review.
• Understand and review assumptions provided by business to support the forecast.
• Understand and integrate Treasury, Risk, and Finance data from a BU perspective, where appropriate.
• Prepare and process all journals relating to the forecast on the relevant system within the required timelines.
• Review all journal entries posted relating to the forecast to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Provide accurate, complete and timeous reporting of the forecast to relevant stakeholders.
• Transform and evolve Finance planning, tracking and control processes.
• Present financial planning results to business highlighting performance and provide meaningful insights on possible risks and opportunities for the near future.
• Take a commercial view on business and provide contextual insights into planned performance results.
• Interact with stakeholders to agree minimum quality standards, as well as an agreed method of communicating and resolving any identified quality deficiencies in the planning process.
• Build trust in the finance function through the creation of a single source of financial information which is corroborated by related management information sources and alignment to the agreed accounting principles, methodologies, and underlying data are correctly applied.
• Own the process of delivery of high‑quality information for regular and ad‑hoc enhanced reporting to agreed requirements, timelines, and standards.
• Own and co‑ordinate the core finance processes for PPB FDS Finance and contribute to the effectiveness of these processes for PPB and Group Finance (annual planning, forecasting, spend trajectory and reporting).
• Develop and implement control procedures as deficiencies or exceptions are identified which support the production of error‑free reports. Assess and drive improvement of business accounting practices and policies.
• Validate all financial and management reporting information for flash results, month end financial results and utilisation and reporting of various key metrics.
• Integrate advanced modelling and analysis capability to provide actionable intelligence, beyond data within the function.
• Generate finance narratives and insights driving business; and build/advise on pioneering new propositions.
• Present financial results to business highlighting performance against plans, prior performance and providing meaningful insights on possible risks and opportunities for the near future.
• Align to processes around month‑end, year‑end and planning cycles across the PPB finance community and BU based on the requirements from Group. Prepare for all cycles in advance and ensure adequate engagement with the relevant finance and BU teams.
• Act in line with the correct governance and control frameworks across the Finance team, as well as for proactively addressing any deficiencies and exceptions.
• Ensure that the CFO is appraised of key financial issues that need to be raised with executive leadership to enable integrity and timely management the BU.
• Know BU financial ambitions and balance sheet aspirations of PPB in performance reporting.
• Contribute to BCM & cybersecurity processes relevant to the BU and finance execution.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on financial data integrity, accounting processes, reconciliations', analysis and reporting for end‑to‑end Financial Management in business area.
• Responsible for continuous operational excellence and real‑time responsiveness of finance to enable business to achieve growth and profitability objectives.
• Focus on information‑driven performance improvement and formulate data into easy access standardised views.

Maintain stewardship and excellence which drives performance and sustainable growth through preservation of financial integrity.

Role / Person Specification

• Minimum B‑degree (NQF level no.7) Desired Post Graduate Degree (NQF level no.8+), CA (SA) or CIMA qualification preferred.
• 3+ years professional financial management experience.
• Knowledge and skills:
  • Experience in executing finance processes.
  • Experience in commercial innovation environments.
  • Broad Finance including strategic, commercial, legal, risk and operational aspects.
  • Understanding of the financial services sector within a professional business environment.
  • Knowledge of building collaborative work environments.

Education: Bachelor’s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Financial Sciences (Required)

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised.

Job Description

The Manager Financial Accounting role is responsible for compiling and distributing the Final Income Statement, high level narratives for the month & Balance Sheet for the Group, balancing of final Group Trial Balance in SAP with Final Income Statement and Balance Sheet, Manage and set month end closing deadlines for all SAP users (Group), as well as manage the opening and closing of accounting periods in SAP (Group).

The role will run the foreign currency revaluation program in SAP and reconcile to detail, ad hoc tasks and sound liaison with other finance departments. In addition, the role is responsible for the preparation of the annual financial statements as well as relevant interaction with both internal and external auditors.

The incumbent will be responsible for creating new, changing, blocking and unblocking GL accounts in SAP (Group), Maintain Trial Balance in SAP (Group). The role will ensure that reconciliations are done, reviewed and signed off, ensure that all Inter‑Company consolidations are done, reviewed and signed off, as well as to ensure that all month end closing exchange rates are loaded in SAP.

Furthermore, the role is also responsible for converting and uploading of non‑SAP subsidiaries Trial Balances in SAP, supervising of subordinates and co‑ordinate leave, coordinate the period 13‑year end journal process and provide updated Trial Balances etc. to auditors and internal customers.

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