Country
South Africa
City
JOHANNESBURG
Workplace location
JOHANNESBURG-BIERMANN AV(ZAF)
Employer company
TotalEnergies Marketing South Africa (Pty) Ltd
Domain
Finance
Type of contract
Regular position
Experience
Minimum 6 years

Context & Environment

Internal Contacts: Operations, finance, Paris group consolidation department and internal audit.


  • Cross functionality required through interaction with other divisions
  • Ensuring that financial information is valid, useful, accurate, complete, and timeous
  • Recommendations to management about internal controls and operational issues. 
  • Problem solving.
  • Evaluation of information from other departments
  • Ensure IFRS compliance during month end, quarter end and year end.

 

External Contacts:  External auditors and stakeholders.

Activities

Accounting and Reporting

  • Assist with the preparation of quarterly submission of CAP report to Paris.
  • To reconcile CAP intercompany balances and follow up on variances.
  • To prepare  balance sheet reconciliations and follow up on open items.
  • Investigate unknown bank open items and ensure items are not older than 30 days.
  • To compile, analyse and capture journal entries on Docuware.
  • To calculate inter-company charges and their billing.
  • Assist with preparation of Annual Financial Statements for TMSA and TERSA
  • Ensure HR bank transactions are cleared monthly
  • To ensure Docuware, SAP Fiori, and any other systems reconciled to SAP
  • Ensure timeous re-invoicing of HR costs.
  • Review the departmental policies and procedures and ensure they are up to date.
  • Review and sign off departmental invoices for payments.
  • Review of transactions processed by the Shared Service Centre.
  • Review balance sheet reconciliations prepared by Shard Service Centre
  • To prepare and provide information for audit (internal and external) requests and liaise with auditors on queries.
  • Prepare monthly departmental performance KPI.
  • Attending to adhoc requests from management.
  • Review of GL open items and clearing.

 

Business Development

 

  • participate in current and future information technology projects that have impact on the financial statements of the group plus business projects.
  • Help optimize the use of available technology improve the flow of available information internal and external stakeholders.
  • Help identify non-value adding processes and drive the implementation of more improved accounting processes.

 

      HSEQ

  • To ensure constant adherence and compliance to company HSEQ and security standards, local by-laws, standards and legislation so as to minimize all risk pertaining to company assets and protection of life.

 

 

 

 

Candidate Profile

As a Group Accountant, you would possess the following:

Qualifications: 

Accounting or Audit articles with 5 years commercial experience

Key competencies required: 

  • Critical thinking.
  • Attention to detail
  • Adhering to TMSA’s code of conduct
  • Ability to work under pressure.
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Good conflict resolution and people skills ·
  • Analytical skills
  • High level of integrity and commitment

Technical knowledge or skills required: 

  • Good knowledge of International Financial reporting Standards (IFRS)
  • Excellent Computer Literacy and experience of MS Office applications 
  • Advanced Microsoft excel skills
  • Good experience and knowledge of SAP and MSOffice
  • Effective written and verbal communication skills
  • Experience on CaseWare software

Additional Information

TotalEnergies values diversity, promotes individual growth and offers equal opportunity careers.

TotalEnergies is an equal opportunity employer and all applicants that meet the specified criteria will receive consideration for employment without discriminating unfairly on any arbitrary ground, including but not limited to race, gender, sex, ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation, age, disability, religious conscience belief, political opinion, culture, language, marital status, or family responsibility.