At Deloitte, our Purpose is to make an impact that matters for our clients, our people, and society. This is the lens for which our global strategy is set. It unites Deloitte professionals across geographies, businesses, and skills. It makes us better at what we do and how we do it. It enables us to deliver on our promises to stakeholders, while creating the lasting impact we seek.

Harnessing the talent of 450,000+ people located across more than 150 countries and territories, our size and scale puts us in a unique position to help change the world for the better—by bringing together the services we provide, the societal investments we make, and the collaborations we advance through our ecosystems.

Deloitte offers career opportunities across Audit & Assurance (A&A), Tax & Legal (T&L) and our Consulting services business, which is made up of Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory (SR&T) and Technology & Transformation (T&T). 

Are you ready to apply your knowledge and background to exciting new challenges? From learning to leadership, this is your chance to take your career to the next level. 

About ARAS: 

Our Services go beyond merely meeting statutory requirements. We help our clients perform better and achieve their business objectives through active problem solving. 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 ARAS 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. 

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;

• Close, Consolidate and Report improvement initiatives, including process, policy, automation and digital enablement 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
• 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? 

Finance

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.

Our Finance service offering recognizes 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 service offering focuses on delivering holistic solutions. These include:

• Financial Statement preparation and review
• Accounting Standard Implementation & Remediation
• Corporate & Integrated Reporting & Stakeholder Communication
• Complex Accounting & Reporting matters

M&A Accounting Advisory

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.

About the job:

• Lead the way in reimagining how Finance functions are delivered by joining one of the fastest growing Business Units in Deloitte
• Focus on Controllership outcomes – specialising in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the financial close process
• Build deep relationships with CFOs, Financial Controllers and other Finance leaders while bringing a Deloitte ‘point of view’
• Flexible work arrangements – work in a way that suits you best
• Benefit from global mentoring and development opportunities, to make an impact across Africa.

Our diverse and inclusive Accounting and Reporting Advisory team is growing rapidly to meet increasing client demand in solving challenges in the Finance function. We need you to help us make an impact that matters.

Qualifications, Experience and Competencies required:

• CA (SA)
• 2 years post articles experience

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:

• Understanding of finance business processes (“as-is”, gap analysis, documentation, flowcharts)
• Internal controls design and testing to address risks identified within a process
• Experience in finance functions optimisation / improvements with ERP and reporting packages / systems (SAP, Oracle, SAGE, Hyperion, etc) experience.
• Understanding of the chart of accounts structure and design of month-end balance sheet reconciliation process
• Experience with advanced Excel – macros, etc.

Why Deloitte?

At Deloitte, we create positively differentiated work experiences that enable our people to feel valued and achieve their full potential. Deloitte Africa opens the door to a career that can cross borders virtually and physically across the African continent and globally to gain experience and access projects beyond our borders. We value difference, and embrace people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, gender identities, abilities and thinking styles. Knowing that people work best in a variety of ways, we are happy to discuss alternative arrangements if the working pattern you are looking for is not specifically indicated.

Leadership Capabilities:

• Living our Purpose - Acts as a role model, embracing and living our purpose and values, and recognizing others for the impact they make
• Talent development - Develops high-performing people and teams through challenging and meaningful opportunities
• Performance drive - Delivers exceptional client service; maximizes results and drives high performance from people while fostering collaboration across businesses and borders
• Influence - Influences clients, teams, and individuals positively, leading by example and establishing confident relationships with increasingly senior people
• Strategic direction - Understands key objectives for clients and Deloitte, aligns people to objectives and sets priorities and direction

Technical Competencies:

• Understanding of the audit and advisory businesses, and their interaction with wider firm locally and globally, strategy and challenges
• Notable experience on providing Strategic Insights to Partners
• Project management experience
• Excellent industry and business knowledge
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Ability to interpret, communicate and implement strategy
• Demonstrated execution of complex projects within timeframes and cost
• Experienced in development and delivery of professional presentations
• Excellent report writing skills
• Solid financial knowledge

Behavioural Competencies:

• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal with all levels of staff & leadership
• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills

Note: The list of tasks / duties and responsibilities contained in this document is not necessarily exhaustive.  Deloitte may ask the employee to carry out additional duties or responsibilities, which may fall reasonably within the ambit of the role profile, depending on operational requirements.

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• Upfront Payment Requests: Deloitte will never ask for any upfront payment for background checks, job training, or supplies.
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At Deloitte, we want everyone to feel they can be themselves and to thrive at work—in every country, in everything we do, every day. We aim to create a workplace where everyone is treated fairly and with respect, including reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities.

We are committed to employment equity and building a diverse and inclusive workplace across the African continent. Our recruitment processes are aligned with our Employment Equity Plan and the principles of the Employment Equity Act. Preference may be given to candidates from designated groups.

We actively support the inclusion of people with disabilities and embrace neurodiversity in the workplace. We recognise and value the unique strengths that neurodivergent individuals bring, and we are committed to creating an environment where everyone can thrive.

If you require reasonable accommodations in relation to your disability and neurodiverse needs during the recruitment process, please let us know. We are happy to make adjustments to suit your individual needs.