Intercompany Analyst – HQ Sandton needed at The South African Breweries

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Preparation of intercompany chargeback requests.
• Prepare and execute intercompany billings, payments, netting, cash application, accrual entries, adjustments and correction entries as needed.
• Review intercompany charges for completeness and integrity to the process.
• Prepare quality 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.
• Managing the health of all intercompany balance sheet accounts in terms of risk, ageing, validity of transactions within the account and clear reconciling items.
• Investigate and resolve reconciling items with the aim to clear mismatches and aged items on FCCS and Cognos in line with the Global policy.
• Present and implement corrective action and preventative action 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 and external reporting purposes.
• Prepare the Intercompany Trial balance for FCCS upload and Cognos reporting.
• Investigate and resolve month end reconciling intercompany differences on FCCS and Cognos.
• Provides customer support and responds to requests and accounting-related inquiries for intercompany processes.
• Adhere to internal control protocols and provide information as required to internal and external audit.
• Ensuring adherence and proper documentation to satisfy audit and statutory requirements including MICS and SOX Controls and SLAs.
• Present to the Team Lead key challenges, insights and workarounds.
• Trouble shoot issues and share improvement ideas with Team Lead.
• 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 functionalities to improve the process.
• Maintenance of role training documentation. Assisting in knowledge transfer to new employees within the role.
• Perform Ad hoc projects and requests as assigned and identify process improvement, automation and efficiency opportunities to improve the way we operate.
• Understanding of Exchange Control Legislation and Company Requirements.

Key Competencies and Attributes:

• Competency in Computer skills (MS Office, Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI), with particularly strong Excel skills.
• Strong knowledge of Procurement to Pay processes and query resolution.
• 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.
• Excellent analytical and good problem-solving skills.
• 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.
• Able to work on own initiative and prioritize workload effectively with effective planning and organizing and add value to the business.
• Uphold confidentiality, high levels of integrity and honesty on availability of information, records or processes associated with services provided.
• Positive attitude and ability to be flexible with duties and scope of work and adopt to change.
• Strong intercompany Business knowledge and commercial 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.
• 3 -5 years prior related position experience in financial accounting required.
• Knowledge of Financial Systems, SAP, FCCS (Financial Close and Consolidation System, COGNOS system) and IFRS.