Accountant: Job Grade 10: Fixed-Term Contract: SLS: Finance: Statutory Reporting: Bellville

What will you do?

• Reporting on the property portfolio for Sanlam Life and performing controls to ensure accuracy of Sanlam Life results.
• Preparation, review and submission of property portfolio financial information from SAP into Hyperion Financial Management (HFM)
• Maintaining HFM manual control checklist for audit purposes
• Process opening fund controls/journals in HFM to ensure that Statement of Changes in Equity (SOCIE) has no validation.
• Processing of intercompany journals for Sanlam Life on HFM to ensure that loan balances in HFM agrees to loan confirmations and SAP.
• Clearing of intercompany mismatch balances/related party balances before phase 1 is promoted on a quarterly basis
• Preparation and submission of regulatory returns of property subsidiaries to external stakeholders, e.g. SARS.
• Completion of Annual Financial Statements (AFS) for property subsidiaries in accordance with accounting standards
• Complete retirement funds AFS on Magic Software for submission to FSCA.
• Completion of allocated notes /webforms for Sanlam Life Group - Properties 
• Preparation of the Related party transactions note for Life Co AFS
• Assist with ad hoc financial tasks and HFM related queries from the team
• Maintain journal register to ensure compliance with the Group journal policy
• Log JIRA requests 

What will make you successful in this role?

• Statutory reporting for the property subsidiary data and reporting on HFM:
  
  • Process opening fund journals to ensure that Statement of Changes in Equity (SOCIE) has no validations. Any validations relating to divisions the Financial Accountant sends email reminders to the affected
  • Divisions to clear SOCIE.
  • Mapping of new accounts in FDM and ensure TB loads are loaded on time.
  • Ensure that property internal controls are completed on time to ensure validity and accuracy of the Trial Balance/MDA Ledger received from JHI and that Sanlam Life reports to Group Finance Reporting team on
  • time.  These controls include MDA to SAP TB Recon, Property Loans Recon, Market and Book Value Recon, Net Income Recon, Fixed equipment Recon, Loose Equipment Recon, Investment Properties
  • Recon, McCormick Reallocation journal, Bank Journal, Debtors/Creditors journal and Summary of Property values for internal purposes. All these controls need to be performed to ensure SL results are accurate and ultimately Group results also.
• Completion of group reporting webforms for Sanlam Life(group) and to enable overall group reporting as well at a Sanlam Limited level – the financial accountant completes the following HFM Webforms or Notes to ensure a complete SL financial disclosure:
             
  • Owner Occupied Note
  • Investment Properties
  • Property Sensitivity Analysis
  • HFM journal for Straight-lining rental adjustment
• Signed/Audited property subsidiary financial statements of the Sanlam life group – The financial accountant is responsible to produce annual financial statements for Phoenix Industrial Park Pty (Ltd). San Lameer Pty (Ltd) and Rycklof Beleggings Pty (Ltd).
• Regulatory returns for submission to South African Revenue Services and CIPC – Income Tax return (ITR 14), Provisional Tax return (IRP6) and Value Added Tax return (VAT201).
• Admin and safe keeping of relevant documents for audit purposes – Maintain Journal register, FDM reports, Audit Control manual checklist.

Qualification and Experience

• B-com accounting degree/B-tech
• Minimum of 3 years relevant experience
• Financial reporting experience in a financial services environment
• Communication with various stakeholders
• SAP and HFM
• Excel
• Understanding complex group structures

Knowledge and Skills

• Good technical accounting knowledge.
• Accounting and tax knowledge.
• Knowledge of the group structure, 
• Knowledge of the insurance industry
• Advanced excel 
• Financial reporting 
• Problem-solving skills 
• Analytical skills
• Software Proficiency
• Ability to work within strict deadlines
• Business writing skills
• Stakeholder management

Personal Attributes

Effective communication 
Decision quality
Analytical thinking
Concern for accuracy
Plans and aligns 

Core Competencies

Build a successful career with us

We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping  our employees to realise their worth. Through its five business clusters – Sanlam Fintech, Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Allianz, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

Turnaround time

The closing date is 15 June 2026.

The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. 

The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers. 

The Fixed-Term Contract will be valid for 4 months, or less depending on when the role is filled and the business needs at the time that it is filled.

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