Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?
The key purpose of this role is to perform activities related to journal processing, reconciliations, process improvement, management of SAP open items and general accounting administration.
Key outputs and responsibilities:
Supervision of monthly and annual General Accounting activities. This includes monthly and annual close-the-books activities including annual statutory audit process.
Preparation and review of journals of finance team, ensuring that journals are accurately and timeously uploaded and processed in system.
Preparation and review of monthly Balance Sheet reconciliations. Review all Balance sheet GL’s to ensure recons align to underlying schedules
Assist in preparation of monthly and quarterly financials statements. Assist with queries from Zone and Global teams
Administer and timeously clear all open items in SAP to ensure a healthy ageing status.
Manage GL Chart of Accounts
Adherence to General Ledger closure deadlines in accordance to management requirements.
Assist the team to meet weekly and monthly R2R targets and all relevant SLA’s and KPI's.
Present and implement corrective action and preventive action for recurring process related issues. Perform Root Cause analysis for recurring or high severity issues resulting in issue reduction. Identify automation opportunities to improve the way we operate and work closely with technology to leverage system functionalities to improve the process.
Maintenance of role training documentation. Assisting in knowledge transfer to new employees within the role.
Adhere to internal control protocols and provide information as required to internal and external audit.
Share information as it relates to business requirements.
Help the team and Team Lead in identifying process improvements, excellence and process efficiency opportunities.
Present to the Team Lead key challenges, insights and workarounds.
Trouble shoot issues and share improvement ideas with Team Lead.
Key attributes and competencies:
Strong Controls and Process improvement mindset
Strong process knowledge and understand general finance terms.
Able to work on own initiative and prioritize workload effectively.
Ability to build productive working relationships – internally and externally.
Strong interpersonal/business skills and time management skills.
Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
Excellent stakeholder management and ability to generate team cooperation.
Analytical approach / good problem-solving skills.
Capable of being entrusted with “confidential” information.
Ability to be flexible with position duties and scope of work.
Profile:
Education and Experience:
Bachelor's or degree in Accounting, Finance or related course
ICAN or ACCA chartered
Accounting background and experience
3 - 5 years prior related position experience required.
Computer skills (MS Office, Financial systems. MxP).
SAP experience.
Additional information:
Band: VII
AB InBev is an equal opportunity employer and all appointments will be made in-line with AB InBev employment equity plan and talent requirements. We are a company that promotes gender equality. Internal applicants require Line manager approval. Please note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted.

The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/relevant information as criteria for short-listing. Interested candidates who meet the above specifications may apply no later than 11 July 2023.