PPS Accounting / Finance Jobs in Gauteng
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Responsible for all Operational Finance processes and functions and including, but not limited to reinsurance calculations and payments, commission calculations and payments, gathering and analyzing financial information, ensuring monthly & quarterly management accounts are prepared accurately and in line with AASB standards and provided to management timeously, month-end reconciliations and daily processing is complete and accurate and reviewing of financial transactions.
Support the Team Manager in so far as the PPS Mutual business is impacted, as and when required.
Duties and Responsibilities
Month-end and daily processes:
- Prepare month-end journals.
- Prepare monthly management accounts.
- Prepare general ledger reconciliations.
- Prepare reconciliations between management accounts and AASB 17 reporting.
- Analyse gross premium reports for reasonability and accuracy.
- Analyse/prepare dealer commission report and reinsurance report for month-end processes of payments.
- Prepare monthly management and administrative fees together with invoices.
- Prepare debtors reconciliation and analysis.
- Collate financial reports for AASB 17 preparing journals and reconciliations.
- Assist with Internal/External Audit queries.
- Prepare monthly Exco support
- Prepare monthly statistics.
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Additional Duties:
- Assist with budgetary and forecast functions.
- Assume responsibility of accounting procedures.
- Respond to queries and investigations.
- Liaison function with internal and external stakeholders.
- Performing other duties assigned from time to time by the Team Manager.
- Perform other financial reporting tasks and projects as identified
- Assist with AASB 17 reporting requirements to current processes including updating of financial templates and uploads to Great Plains.
Minimum Requirements
Education:
- A bachelor's degree in finance or accounting is required.
Experience:
- 4-5 years experience within a financial services environment, preferably in the Insurance Industry advantage.
- Strong reconciliation experience is required.
- Attention to detail.
- Experience in the use of Microsoft Office applications (Word and Excel etc).
- Proficient in MS Office - Advanced Excel.
Knowledge and Skill:
- General knowledge of insurance legislation/rules advantage.
- Exposure in dealing with members, brokers and advisors advantage.
- Solid knowledge of basic and advanced accounting and financial principles and practices.
- Excellent knowledge of accounting and reporting.
- Excellent knowledge or risk analysis, budgeting and forecasting.
- Working knowledge of financial software and MS Office.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
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Competencies:
- Analytical mind with aptitude in math
- Analytical and be able to make prudent business decisions
- Flexible and adaptable in changing and challenging circumstances
- Fast learner with the ability to rapidly assimilate and utilize new information and skills
- High level of accuracy and be able to operate efficiently under pressure
- Work non-standard business hours from time to time
- Must be self-motivated
- Time management skills
- Be a team player and take responsibility for own development initiative
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