Group Reporting and Financial Accountant
AVI Limited
Cape Town, Western Cape
Permanent
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Posted 19 February 2025 - Closing Date 07 June 2025

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Job Description

AVI LIMITED is home to many of South Africa’s leading and best-loved brands! Listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and centred on the FMCG market, AVI’s extensive brand portfolio includes more than 50 brands. Our brands span a range of categories including hot beverages, sweet and savoury biscuits and snacks, frozen convenience foods, out-of-home ranges, personal care products, cosmetics, footwear, accessories, and fashion apparel. We have a well-developed Shared Services structure spanning: International, IT, Finance, Logistics, Marketing, Procurement and Field Marketing, which allows us to take advantage of our scale. Our single-minded purpose is our brands’ growth and development.   An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Group Reporting and Financial Accountant at I&J, Cape Town. The individual will be responsible for the Group Reporting and Financial Accounting. 

Line Manager: Finance Manager Group Reporting and Tax

Number of direct reports 0 

Job Specification:

  • Monthly reporting and accounting:
    • Preparation of all consolidation monthly entries
    • Prepare the monthly early estimation documents and income statements
    • Prepare the full month-end reporting pack with all relevant workings and support
    • Assist with answering queries on monthly results and reports
    • Preparation of loadshedding schedules
    • Preparation of any additional monthly reports
  • Quarterly reporting and accounting:
    • Preparation of all consolidation quarterly entries
    • Preparation of all additional quarterly reports
    • Assist with answering queries on quarterly results 
  • Year-end reporting and accounting:
    • Preparation of any additional year-end accounting entries required for group and consolidation
    • Preparation of year-end reporting pack with comparatives and additional disclosures
    • Preparation of additional reporting requirements for year end
    • Assist with answering queries on yearly results
  • Dividends:
    • Solvency and liquidity work papers
    • Accounting entries and arranging for payments
    • Assist with declarations to SARS
    • Any ad hoc requests / schedules / queries from AVI or internally
    • Continuous maintenance and improvement of templates and standard operating procedures.
    • Ad-hoc Finance related assistance on various projects that arise in the ordinary course of business to be dealt with effectively and promptly – Assisting all business units across the Group.
    • Assist with deregistration's of entities and accounting work
  • Audits:
    • Assist with external audit requests and process
    • Assist with internal audit requests and requirements
    • Assist with Information for BBEEE audits
    • Preparation of representation letters and additional questionnaires
  • Forecast and budget process:
    • Quarterly and yearly budget process and full pack preparations & supporting work papers 
  • Annual Financial Statements:
    • Preparation of all entities’ AFS on Draftworx with supporting documentation
    • To address all review notes internally (from FM and FD), and from auditors & AVI
    • Preparation of related party schedules and support
    • Assist with all finalization documentation
    • Calculate PIS scores for each entity and report to company secretary
    • Conversions of AFS in Draftworx to XBRL format 
  • Board packs:
    • Assist in preparation of work papers, support and presentation slides
    • Sagers submissions and support to assist with
    • STATS SA submissions and questionnaires to complete
  • Direct and indirect taxes:
    • Assist Tax accountant in busy times with tax and deferred taxes (especially half year-end, year end, and provisional taxes with tight deadlines)
    • Back-up for full Tax accountant position when needed

Minimum Requirements:

Experience:

  • SAIPA or SAICA articles with 3 – 5 years post-article experience in a reporting / financial accountant role
  • Or 5 – 8 years overall experience in Group Reporting and Financial Accounting for a listed company 

Qualifications:

  • BCom Accounting Degree at a University (must have majored in Accounting)
  • CA (SA) would be advantageous 

Additional requirements:

  • Draftworx would be an advantageous
  • Experience in preparation of income tax returns, VAT returns, provisional tax returns, dividend tax returns and carbon tax returns would be advantageous
  • SAP advantageous
  • Advanced Excel
  • BI reporting advantageous