Group Reporting Accountant - CPT

Are you a qualified CA(SA) looking to step into a high-impact, pan-African group finance role?

As the Group Reporting Accountant, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the integrity of group numbers while modernizing and scaling the finance function. You won’t just be ticking compliance boxes—you will partner closely with in-country finance teams across Africa, interrogate complex numbers, solve practical accounting challenges, and optimize systems to ensure finance can scale seamlessly alongside explosive business growth.

This role offers an exceptional runway for professional growth, offering deep exposure to technical IFRS matters, multi-currency consolidations, ERP optimization, and group valuations within a collaborative and energetic environment.

• Consolidated Group Reporting: Review and coordinate monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidated accounts and financial statements across multiple international entities and currencies, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and strict deadlines are met.
• Technical Accounting & Valuations: Lead complex IFRS accounting assessments, deliver pragmatic solutions, and execute quarterly group valuations encompassing loan books, impairments, and investment holdings.
• Year-End Audit Leadership: Serve as the central point of contact for external auditors and country finance teams, proactively addressing queries to ensure clean and timely audit sign-offs.
• Systems Administration & Optimization: Own financial system administration (NetSuite) and integrations, continually enhancing automation and streamlining reporting workflows.
• Controls & Process Engineering: Design, implement, and refine robust, practical financial controls and close-process tools to support operational finance teams without creating unnecessary red tape.
• FP&A & Strategic Projects: Collaborate with Group FP&A on budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis, driving key finance transformation initiatives.
• Country Team Enablement: Share knowledge, deliver practical training, and empower cross-border finance teams on IFRS standards, system tools, and group best practices.

Must-Haves

• Professional Qualification: Qualified CA(SA) registered with SAICA.
• Experience: 2 to 5 years of post-articles commercial experience.
• Group Reporting Track Record: Direct, hands-on experience in group financial reporting and complex consolidations within a multi-entity, multi-currency structure.
• Technical Accounting Depth: Strong, demonstrable knowledge of IFRS, with the confidence to interpret standards and defend technical accounting positions with executive leaders and external auditors.
• Travel Flexibility: Willing and able to travel to operational offices across Africa approximately twice a year.

Nice-to-Haves

• ERP Proficiency: Prior experience working with NetSuite or Oracle ERP systems, specifically regarding system administration or financial integrations.
• Industry Background: Previous exposure to financial services, micro-lending, or high-growth fintech environments.