Internal Control Accountant

SUMMARY:
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By forming part of this gaming conglomerate, will offer you an opportunity to form part of one of SA's biggest success stories.

The company operates across Africa and internationally, and they are on a mission to increase their global footprint.

POSITION INFO:
Job & Company Description:
The successful candidate will be responsible for developing a strong control environment for operations and ensuring all transactions are auditable to ensure validity and accuracy of transactions. To adapt procedures and ensure relevance to support accurate reconciliations safeguarding business against financial loss.

Duties Include:

• Collect and analyse data to detect reconciliation weaknesses and identify key and residual risks
• Ensure all transactions are accounted for and reconciled
• Reconciliation of vouchers and ensuring adequate controls are implemented
• Reconciliation of tax data to ensure accuracy of tax payments
• Maintain daily, weekly and monthly reconciliations
• Implementing controls for third party integrations
• Escalate client debit balances and reconciliation variances that have not been cleared
• Work closely with development and operational teams to test interactions and new products
• Ensure supporting financial records are accurate and reliable and available prior to new product deployment
• Ensure daily reconciliation sign-offs are performed by the team
• Support junior staff and assist with the resolution and escalation of variances
• Submit daily report summarizing key aspects of the daily sign offs
• Identify and rectify weaknesses within procedures, processes, policies and related internal control frameworks
• Continuously look to improve efficiency and effectiveness
• Timeous and accurate reporting of findings with material value or material risk
• Working on new projects
• Creating, maintaining and enforcing company policies and procedures
• Compliance with relevant laws and regulations
• Support the group and retail accounts regarding maintenance of the risk register
• Maintenance of department process write-ups / system descriptions and quarterly updating
• Produce high quality, formula linked work/templates/workbooks/financial models/recons
• Ensure Monthly recons are finalized
• Effectively deal with internal, external, SARS, NCA and BEE auditors
• Promote declaration of all gifts and report suspicious requests to clear queries from departments responding to queries
• Promote declaration all conflicts of interest
• Promote a culture of compliance with FICA and AML regulations with regards to reporting of suspicious transactions