Job Description

About the role

LOCATION: Sandton, Johannesburg - willing to travel across Africa.

Purpose of the role:

The Fund Accountant is responsible for effective fund review (including efficient rental collection, actual cost, budgeting, and forecasting), Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cashflow Statement analysis, journal processing, gathering, and monitoring financial data, as well as any other financial tasks listed below. They ensure compliance with accounting regulations and support the company's financial decisions.

What will you do?

Key responsibilities:

• Review, consolidation and approval of SACREIL Group entities' management accounts
• Ensuring the completeness and accuracy of financial record keeping, queries and help resolve accounting discrepancies in a timely and effective manner.
• Monthly, Interim, and year-end consolidation and reporting
• Review and approve quarterly regulatory surveys
• Calculation and approval of the Advisory and Management Fees, and Dividend payments
• Assisting internal and external auditors with their requests
• Assisting with budget and forecasting preparation and monitor variance analysis
• Cash management
• ESG and Sustainability reporting, alongside the Asset management team
• Ensure effective controls and procedures are in place to adhere to approval framework.
• Analyse financial trends, and competitor analysis
• Assist with communication, especially communiques are loaded onto the website timeously
• Drafting quarterly board submissions
• Ad hoc tasks and projects

What will make you successful in this role?

Academic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or a Postgraduate qualification in Finance, Property, Valuations or LLB.
• Proficiency in real estate software management packages, e.g. JDE Real Estate or MRI, would be an advantage.

Technical Competencies & Skills:

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (advanced Excel skills is essential).
• IDU, HFM and other real estate software management packages, e.g., JDE Real Estate would be an advantage.

Core competencies:

• Cultivates Innovation - Creating new and better ways for the organisation to be successful.
• Client focus - building strong client relationships and delivering client centric solutions.
• Drives results - consistently seizing opportunities and achieving results even under tough circumstances.
• Collaborates - building partnerships and working collaboratively and inclusively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Being Resilient - rebounding from setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations.

Behavioural competencies:

• Business Insight - applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organizations goals.
• Oganisational Savvy - Maneuvering comfortably through complex policy, process and people-related organizational dynamics.
• Manages Complexity - making sense of complex, high quantity and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
• Plans and Aligns - planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.

Build a successful career with us

We're all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future - your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its five business clusters - Sanlam Fintech, Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Allianz, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office - the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

Our commitment to transformation

The Sanlam Group is committed to transformation and embracing diversity and our employment equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of the demographics of our society as well as people with disabilities.

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