Senior Accountant, Financial Reporting and VAT

Role Purpose: To support the Manager and Senior Manager in preparing accurate, timely and compliant financial statements, financial reporting schedules, accounting reconciliations, tax schedules and audit support documentation. The role supports monthly, quarterly and annual closing activities, interprets and applies IFRS requirements, ensures accounting entries and tax-related deliverables are properly supported, and liaises with internal teams, external auditors, state auditors and tax stakeholders to ensure smooth reporting and compliance processes. Position Information • Unit: Finance • Department: Accounting & Compliance • Division: Financial Control • Minimum role requirements: Qualification: Bachelor s degree in Accounting, Finance or a relevant field. ACCA or an equivalent professional qualification is preferred. • Experience: 6 years of relevant experience Technical Skills : Knowledge of VAT, income tax, accounting principles, IFRS, Oracle Financials, MS Office especially Excel, analytical thinking, problem solving and good written and oral communication skills. Key Accountabilities • Gather, review and analyse subsidiaries and associates financial statements, reporting packs and performance results to support group reporting and management review. • Prepare monthly variance analysis for subsidiaries, associates and key financial statement line items, including clear explanations of major movements against budget, forecast and prior periods. • Maintain subsidiary-level reports, performance dashboards, financial schedules and supporting analyses to ensure timely and accurate visibility of subsidiary and associate results. • Support the preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements, reporting schedules, disclosure notes and working papers in line with reporting timelines. • Prepare supporting schedules for financial statement captions including revenue, cost of sales, operating expenses, finance income and cost, receivables, payables, provisions, leases, borrowings, investments and related party balances. • Review trial balance movements, balance sheet accounts, income statement movements and key account balances to identify discrepancies, unusual trends and required corrective actions. • Perform monthly closing checks to ensure all accruals, prepaid expenses, provisions, reclassifications, eliminations and adjustment entries are recorded accurately and supported by proper documentation. • Prepare and review balance sheet integrity checks, account reconciliations, intercompany reconciliations, accounting schedules and supporting documentation to ensure completeness and accuracy. • Follow up with business units and finance teams on long-outstanding balances, unreconciled items, ageing issues and required corrective actions to improve balance sheet quality. • Prepare, post and validate journal entries, accruals, provisions, reclassifications and month-end or year-end adjustment entries in the general ledger. • Support Oracle Financials and reporting system activities by extracting trial balances, validating ledger data, investigating mapping issues and coordinating corrections with relevant system owners. • Interpret and apply IFRS requirements to accounting transactions, subsidiary reporting, consolidation inputs and financial statement disclosures, escalating complex matters where required. • Support IFRS 16 lease accounting, impairment reviews, expected credit loss schedules, revenue-related assessments and other technical accounting areas by preparing data, reconciliations and working papers. • Support consolidation and group reporting activities by preparing reporting packs, intercompany confirmations, subsidiary schedules and explanations required for consolidation review. • Coordinate with subsidiaries and associates to ensure timely submission of reporting packs, management explanations, audit requirements, tax information and supporting schedules. • Prepare ad-hoc management reports, performance summaries, financial analysis and presentation inputs to support management decision-making. • Support preparation of inputs for Audit Committee, executive management, board reporting, investor reporting and regulatory submissions by ensuring numbers are accurate, reconciled and properly explained. • Prepare VAT, withholding tax, income tax and other tax-related schedules, reconciliations and supporting documentation for filing, review and compliance purposes. • Support tax return preparation, tax assessments, tax queries, tax authority requirements and tax audit responses by compiling data, reconciliations, explanations and evidence. • Coordinate with subsidiaries, associates, tax teams and relevant finance stakeholders to obtain accurate information for reporting, tax filings, tax assessments and compliance submissions. • Monitor compliance with internal financial reporting policies, delegation of authority, accounting guidelines, tax procedures and documentation requirements. • Liaise with internal auditors, external auditors, state auditors and advisors by preparing audit schedules, explanations, reconciliations and supporting evidence on a timely basis. • Track audit, state audit and tax audit requirements, maintain issue logs, follow up on open points and support timely closure of management responses and action plans. • Maintain complete and well-organised audit files, tax files, subsidiary reporting files, reconciliations, sign-offs and documentation to support reporting accuracy and audit readiness. • Identify opportunities to improve reporting templates, reconciliation processes, controls, automation, data quality and documentation standards within the financial reporting and tax processes. • Perform other related duties and ad-hoc projects as assigned, while maintaining confidentiality, professional judgement, accuracy and compliance discipline. Qualification: Bachelor s degree in Accounting, Finance or a relevant field. ACCA or an equivalent professional qualification is preferred.