Senior Accountant

Job description

Background
Dentsu is Innovating the Way Brands Are Built for its clients through its best-in-class expertise and capabilities in media, digital and creative communication services.

With consumers more connected, through a range of devices, than ever before, the era of media convergence is presenting many opportunities as well as a new, complex media eco-system. From identifying who the consumers are, to how they make their decisions, Dentsu and its brand business of Carat, Dentsu, Dentsu media, iProspect, Isobar, FoxP2, MKTG, Posterscope and Vizeum make the best use of today’s media mix to bring to life the right communication strategy and deliver the best results for clients.

Our values permeate Dentsu through our behavior both as individuals and companies. They determine how we work in partnership and through wider collaboration, how we approach our relationships internally, with existing clients and how we win new business. They also influence the way we hire new people, develop employees, review performance, evaluate reward and achieve promotion.

So what are the perks?

We’re part of a real global network, giving us 45 countries and 77 offices to draw some pretty amazing support, knowledge and expertise from. It’s also pretty handy if you ever consider a job on the other side of the world!
On that note, personal and professional growth are massively important to us, and so we like to send employees to some of those offices to collaborate, gain new insight, experience and strengthen the bonds of our network.

This is dentsu!
Role purpose
Dependant on area of responsibility:

• Assist the Operational finance manager and work with accounts receivable/payable teams to ensure correct process and procedures are being followed
• Treasury management i.e Bank account management as well cash forecasts
• Work with the Operational finance manager to streamline the current processes and work on improving and finding new ways to make the team more efficient and mitigating risk
• Assist with reconciling of all Intercompany recharges and working with the finance team to eliminate all queries before month end starts.
• Assist with reviewing all monthly and biweekly supplier payments
• Charge out schedule review to ensure correct intercompany charges are being done (mainly resource management charges relating to centres of excellence)
• Ensure the tracking and billing of Amplifi revenue as well as the intercompany AVB passbacks
• Assist with all month end requirements
• Preparation of the VAT 201 returns for submission
• Assistance with SARS queries
• Assist Finance Manager in preparation of forecast and budget files

• Responsible for maintaining documentation and ensuring audit compliance
• Closely work with stakeholders to understand the requirements, set expectations, address concerns and discuss them with reporting manager
• Review, monitor and implement key process control checks and ensure deliverables are achieved in accurate and timely manner.
• Initiate and assist in continuous process improvements
• Ensure delivery of quality results to stakeholders including invoice/revenue tracker, dashboards, KPI and other key process metrics
• Responsible for following Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), maintaining process documentations and ensuring audit compliance
• Timely escalation of issues to the Operational Finance Manager and suggesting action plans to get these resolved.

• Assist the Operational finance manager and work with accounts receivable/payable teams to ensure correct process and procedures are being followed
• Treasury management i.e Bank account management as well cash forecasts
• Work with the Operational finance manager to streamline the current processes and work on improving and finding new ways to make the team more efficient and mitigating risk
• Assist with reconciling of all Intercompany recharges and working with the finance team to eliminate all queries before month end starts.
• Assist with reviewing all monthly and biweekly supplier payments
• Charge out schedule review to ensure correct intercompany charges are being done (mainly resource management charges relating to centres of excellence)
• Ensure the tracking and billing of Amplifi revenue as well as the intercompany AVB passbacks
• Assist with all month end requirements
• Preparation of the VAT 201 returns for submission
• Assistance with SARS queries
• Assist Finance Manager in preparation of forecast and budget files

• Review of creditors ageing, and ensure that accounts payable administrators have correctly captured invoices
• Ensure Production jobs are closed and reviewed timeously

• Collating SARS details ito EMP501 submissions
• Preparation of freelancer/artists PAYE schedules and that these are processed on payroll system

• Check and approval of creditors reconciliation
• Review and release of payments onto bank system

Working with us
It’s?an?opportunity to produce career-defining work. Along the way, you’ll team up with inspiring colleagues and encounter a richness of clients, cultures and experiences.? We offer exciting challenges, memorable experiences and opportunities to shape your future.

Requirements

Professional Skills
Required qualifications/experince
• Accounting qualification in Commerce or Finance. Preferably a B Com with 2 – 3 years experience
• Experience in the Advertising Industry in handling Accounting, Receivables, Payables, General Ledger, monthly close, inter-company or Record to Report process, as applicable

Key competencies/skills
• Some industry experience in accounting processes, reporting and financial analysis
• Advanced MS Excel skills
• Knowledge Navision is advantageous

Key characteristics
• Display great attention to detail
• Accuracy and diligence
• Perseverance and rigour in resolving queries
• Problem solving skills
• Focuses on clients
• Focuses on quality
• Expertise that adds value
• Influencing collaborative outcomes