Technical Accountant

A Investment Platform is building a new and exciting financial services business which will provide a leading-edge investment platform and supporting services to independent financial advisers as well as tied advisers within a leading Bank and Financial Services leader.
As part of  Africa's largest wealth manager, This Group Investment Platform is able to leverage the latest global technologies to build an investment platform based on modern architecture and straight through processing.
This will deliver a highly competitive proposition based on customer centricity and digital enablement.
You will play a key role in delivering this innovative and groundbreaking solution, transitioning our current LISP business and supporting the vision of becoming the number one investment platform in South Africa.Hybrid or onsite12 month contract with a view to permanencyObjective of the Role:The purpose of the role is to work collaboratively within your team and across other teams in the business to deliver exceptional customer experiencesKey Responsibilities: Understand the future finance and IT operational landscape and assist in developing processes to support vision in line with business operating model.Ensure compliance with all statutory requirements relating to financial control, financial management and accounting.Maintenance of accurate and complete financial recordsImproving financial business processes to ensure that additional transactional volumes associated with the growth of the business can be supported.Design and preparation of monthly financial reports and account reconciliations to strengthen financial controls.Management of all monthly IT business processes including monitoring of system batch processes and error logs.Document business processes and procedures required to ensure the IT production support team can perform their daily tasks.Identification of key Financial Risks to the business, reporting risks and implementing mitigation controls and procedures.Analysis of IT production support function business requirements including gap analysis of changes required to existing systems and processes to ensure optimisation of resources.Analysis of technical accounting treatment of Investment Platform client transactions and configuration to ensure system process in line with Accounting Standards.Consult and co-ordinate extensively with key stakeholders across Business and IT teams.Minimum Qualifications Required: Qualified CA(SA) preferableComputer Literacy (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook, MS Visio), with MS Excel at least at intermediate level.Knowledge of SQL data extract techniques a distinct advantageExcellent verbal and written communication skills.Highly numerate and able to analyse and interpret financial data to produce reports which can be understood by non-financial colleagues.Ability to work at both a detailed and strategic level.Experience: At least 5 years' experience post qualification with a minimum of 3 years in a similar role within the Financial Services Industry.Business process definition experience, to ensure optimal business performanceExperience with financial business requirements e.g.
general ledger, payment systems and reconciliations.Experience in solving complex problems for customers (internal or external).Experience in building successful relationships and working collaboratively across departmental teams.Experience at working in a fast paced, proactive and delivery focused environments.Experience in analyzing and consolidating large data sets between different systems to derive Management Information.Team management experience is essential.Working experience on SAP, Sonata, Compass would be highly advantageous.Knowledge Required: A successful candidate will show:A deep understanding of investment and life products (to subject matter expert level) in order to talk about investments confidently.An understanding of financial services regulation as it relates to investment platform providers.An understanding of platform products and operations.A good understanding of the IT architectural landscape and system integrationUnderstanding or experience creating systems for Financial Advisers.A clear understanding of the competitive landscape for our platform.A strong understanding of change management processes.A broad enterprise-wide view of the end to end business and a relevant degree of appreciation for strategy, processes and capability, enabling technologies and governance.Knowledge Required: A successful candidate will show:A deep understanding of investment and life products (to subject matter expert level) in order to talk about investments confidently.An understanding of financial services regulation as it relates to investment platform providers.An understanding of platform products and operations.A good understanding of the IT architectural landscape and system integrationUnderstanding or experience creating systems for Financial Advisers.A clear understanding of the competitive landscape for our platform.A strong understanding of change management processes.A broad enterprise-wide view of the end to end business and a relevant degree of appreciation for strategy, processes and capability, enabling technologies and governance.Competencies: Communicating with Impact: Communicates effectively in both the written and verbal format delivering clear, succinct messages.Customer Service: Commits to achieving high quality results and provides a prompt, suitable and personalised service to customer's that meets their needs.
Take personal accountability for delivery.Driving for Excellence: Approaches work in an orderly and systematic manner to ensure the achievement of high-quality customer service.Analytical Thinking: Understands a situation or problem by breaking it into smaller pieces and tracing the implications of a situation in a step by step way.Entrepreneurial and Commercial Thinking: Understands the economic environment and able to make well informed business decisions.People Skills: The ability to influence a wide range of diverse individuals and groups positively.Resilience: Responds to stressful situations in a calm and proactive manner and keeps self and team focused on balancing personal energy with business result.Teamwork and Cooperation: Cooperates with others to accomplish common goals.Persuading and Influencing: The capacity to persuade, convince and influence others for the purpose of achieving desired results.Leading Change: Continually seeks and encourages others to see opportunities for new and innovative approaches to solving organisational problems.Trust and Integrity: Shows sincerity, honesty and consistency in words and actions.Attention to detail: A keen eye for detail and desire to probe further into data.