About Deloitte:

Deloitte is a leading global provider of audit and assurance, consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory, tax and related services. Our global network of member firms and related entities in more than 150 countries and territories (collectively, the “Deloitte organization”) serves four out of five Fortune Global 500® companies. Learn how Deloitte’s approximately 312,000 people make an impact that matters at www.deloitte.com

Our Assurance services go beyond merely meeting statutory requirements. We help our clients perform better and achieve their business objectives. We listen to their needs, think about the business implications and tailor our approach accordingly. In today's changing global economy, businesses need trusted advisors. Because Assurance professionals at Deloitte take the time to understand our clients' business as well as the industries in which they operate, we can help them identify major risks and opportunities over and above performance of the traditional financial reporting function.

About Assurance Services:

Our Aspiration is to be the strategic advisor to Finance Leaders, delivering innovative solutions to enable the future of finance, and creating enduring value for our clients.

We are a team of advisors who bring a unique combination of skills to support Finance leaders in solving both complex and day-to-day challenges in the finance function. We deliver our services across a variety of sectors, including Financial Services, Energy & Resources, Technology, Media and Telecommunications, Consumer, Life Sciences and Public Sector. In doing so, we each play to our strengths and specialise in one or more of the following key areas of expertise.

Our areas of expertise include advising on:
 

·Close, Consolidate and Report improvement initiatives, including process, policy, automation and digitisation of the month-end financial close

· Internal Controls over Financial Reporting as required by JSE Listing Rule 3.84k, including digital enablement

·Integrated Reporting and report refresh initiatives to help our clients report value driven by their ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) activities, including climate change

·End to End accounting and reporting implications of proposed or planned transactions (such as mergers, acquisitions, integrations, separations and restructuring), including post-merger / separation planning for day 1 readiness of the finance function

·Advice relating to changes in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) or other regulatory requirements, including digital enablement and change adoption

·Finance function operational support at month end, year-end, or ‘on call’ accounting services

Where do we play? 

Accounting Operations Advisory (AOA)

We advise finance functions to increase their efficiency and effectiveness from the beginning to the end of the finance reporting cycle. We leverage Assurance’s deep expertise in accounting in order to build confidence in the value, accuracy, timeliness and reliability of the Controllership function.

Accounting Operations Advisory (AOA) services recognize that leaders need a partner they can work collaboratively with to evaluate their people, processes, infrastructure & controls, and to deliver practical and pragmatic solutions to address increasing demands, existing inefficiencies, and impacts of new technologies, while ensuring Finance remains honest to its core activities.

Accounting and Reporting Advisory (ARA)

Regulatory, technological, and business complexities are driving finance and accounting teams to re-evaluate their accounting policies, processes, controls, and systems.

Sound decision making is reliant on balanced and stakeholder focussed corporate reporting.

The complex accounting and reporting decisions organisations make can have a profound impact on how they are evaluated by stakeholders and the overall financial stability of the organisation.    

Our Accounting and Reporting Advisory services focus on delivering holistic solutions. These include:

•Provision of end-to-end implementation solutions; 

•Remediation solutions;

•Maintenance and monitoring solutions; and

•Digital transformation solutions

Disruptive Events Advisory (DEA)

Finance today often struggles to meet competing priorities. Not only does management demand Finance to provide quicker and better analytical insights to support decision-making, but new accounting standards, rapid changes to business model and M&A activities also place significant pressure on Finance to adapt fast.
Now more than ever, business and finance executives seek assistance from us to improve the productivity and performance of their finance operations and transform their finance functions into trusted business advisors.

To enable our clients in establishing world-class finance functions, we adopt a cross-disciplinary approach to provide insight on how to better design finance organizations, processes, data and systems with leading practices and digital technology, as well as facilitate our clients in managing capital market transactions, such as getting ready for IPO, carving out business units for spin-off, integrating finance functions after a merger, etc.

We are recruiting for talented individuals across all our firms in South Africa. Please indicate in your application where your preferred location of work will be.

About The Role

• Proactive involvement in business process development and improvement in Finance and Accounts Payable service lines  
• Staff Expense Management as well as AP Invoice Processing enablement initiatives including implementation/maintenance/support of SAP Concur
• Conduct business needs analysis and identify key business challenges
• Analyzing authorization and approval business processes and workflows for the Staff Expense Management Process and AP Invoice Management Process
• Exposure to or understanding of the SAP Concur product suite and functionality is a bonus
• Gathering functional and business requirements from clients and translating them into SAP Concur project scope items and deliverables
• Identify improvement opportunities to achieve clients’ desired business outcomes
• Assist in defining ‘To-Be’ stage of processes, solution application requirement and performance measurements
• Develop deployment/enablement strategy, roadmap and plan to achieve ‘To-Be’ stage effectively
• Manage/conduct deployment activities and measure achievement of desired outcomes
• Proactive involvement in change for large scale multi-site, and other related transformational change efforts, including but not limited to efficiency and effectiveness initiatives; organizational restructurings; organizational capabilities development
• Support team with build of opportunity pipeline and proposals to clients
• Ability to collaborate and work in a team environment, as well as the ability to work independently
• Ability to be strategic and creative while remaining detail-oriented and process-focused

Enough about us, let’s talk about you

Are you curious, practical, outcomes driven, love learning, client centric, relish a challenge, collaborative, thrive on working on a variety of diverse problems from clients in different industries and sectors and being part of a fun, professional team? If so, read on!

We’re looking for someone with some or more of the following attributes:

• A recognized bachelor’s degree qualification, preferably in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems or related degree
• Minimum 3-5 years of relevant experience, preferably in a professional services firm
• Business Analyst/Project Management experience in the IT domain is an advantage
• Bonus: Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of SAP Concur modules with experience in implementation/maintenance/support of SAP Concur solutions and proficiency in Expense, Invoice and Request.
• Bonus: Experience with one or more SAP Concur implementations or SAP Concur support
• Experience in leading or supporting project kick-offs, analysis & design phases during a project, supporting a client after a project go-live
• Creating and delivering functional requirements documentation in a client-facing role
• Identifying optimal configuration options to meet client requirements within the project scope
• Experience in data migration & testing; go live and deployment; post go live transition & training
• Bonus: SAP Concur CIP certification or similar certification  

*Please note that this job advertisement provides a summary of the capabilities required and all candidates shortlisted will receive a full list of capabilities.