Financial Planner: ReportingCoca Cola

• Preparation of standardised reporting packs for the various stakeholders on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.
• Review cross-functional financial accounting functional data and provide insightful analysis to enable transactional and process optimization
• Identification of opportunities to eliminate process inefficiencies within the department and implementation solutions that drive continuous process improvement
• Support of financial accounting system enhancement projects to improve the efficiency and effectiveness across the department
• Prepare and report on process compliance across Financial accounting, including but not limited to internal policies, processes, SOX, IFRS, internal and external audits as well as other SA regulatory bodies
• Benchmarking CCBSA financial accounting processes and data against industry best-in-class business practices, KPIs’ and transformation activities
• Identify and communicate best practice opportunities for implementation
• Develop and roll out standardised reporting templates to facilitate standardization
• Attendance of stock counts and ensure compliance with hard close and year-end procedures
• Assistance with ad-hoc activities within the department

Skills, Experience & Education    

Qualifications and Experience

• Newly Qualified Chartered Accountant of South Africa (CA(SA))
• BIG 4 Firms
• Previous experience in managing a complex reporting function is an advantage.

Competencies

1. Integrity and Trust - Is widely trusted; is seen as a direct, truthful individual; can present the unvarnished truth appropriately and helpfully; keeps confidences; admits mistakes; doesn’t misrepresent him/herself for personal gain.
2. Ethics and Values - Adheres to an appropriate (for the setting) and effective set of core values and beliefs during both good and bad times; acts in line with those values; rewards the right values and disapproves of others; practices what he/she preaches.
3. Customer Focus - Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
4. Timely Decision - Making Makes decisions promptly, sometimes with incomplete information and under tight deadlines and pressure; able to make a quick decision.
5. Comfort Around Higher Management - Can deal comfortably with more senior managers; can present to more senior managers without undue tension and nervousness; understands how senior managers think and work; can determine the best way to get things done with them by talking their language and responding to their needs; can craft approaches likely to be seen as appropriate and positive.
6. Approachability - Is easy to approach and talk to; spends the extra effort to put others at ease; can be warm, pleasant, and gracious; is sensitive to and patient with the interpersonal anxieties of others; builds rapport well; is a good listener; is an early knower, getting informal and incomplete information in time to do something about it.
7. Action Oriented - Enjoys working hard; is action-oriented and full of energy for the things he/she sees as challenging; not fearful of acting with a minimum of planning; seizes more opportunities than others.
8. Interpersonal Savvy - Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
9. Organizing - Can marshal resources (people, funding, material, support) to get things done; can orchestrate multiple activities at once to accomplish a goal; uses resources effectively and efficiently and arranges information and files in a useful manner.
10. Knowledge - International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) reporting standards and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles used to regulate reporting standards