Siemens Energy

Location:  Midrand

Department:  Regional Accounting Africa

Mode of Employment: Permanent

A Snapshot of Your Day

Energy Regional Accounting - Accountant at Siemens Energy

• Fully qualified BComm Accountant (incl post graduate qualifications) able to function under pressure to meet challenging reporting deadlines. Attention to high level of accuracy in daily processes essential.

Stay aligned with IFRS updates and subsequent implementation of changes in accounting platform, annual update of master data and interface to sub systems. Monitoring and review of financial impacts as a result of the ongoing operations and compliance with the expected accounting standards.

Partner with stakeholders on topics related to updates and changes of accounting guidelines and closing & reporting framework.

Ability to work in a team as well as be an individual contributor.

How You’ll Make an Impact  

• Responsible for the formal approval and release of journals for allocated Ledger area (e.g. fixed assets, payroll, bank and cash, etc) prepared by business or country accounting teams.
• Provides monthly accounting governance and closing activities for the allocated GL area (e.g. Revenue recognition, fixed assets, payroll, or bank and cash, etc).
• Assume over responsibility to provide support and for the on-time reporting of Regional company and Branch.
• Monitors ledger account reconciliations prepared by Global Service Centre and the business/legal entity and follows up and clears anomalies identified.
• Performs quarterly Balance Sheet reviews and investigates and clears anomalies.
• Ensures that changes to IFRS and other local guidelines are implemented by the businesses/legal entities in a timely manner, in close cooperation with Accounting Competence team.
• Completes projects concerning improvements of general financial processes and implementation of new accounting standards.
• External and Internal Contacts:
• Internal: Accounting teams, Business unit Commercials and internal service providers i.e global Accounting Service Centres units.
• External: Auditors, Banks, external Service Providers.

What You Bring 

• 3-5+ years relevant experience
• BCom Accounting, CIMA, or equivalent qualification
• Excellent working knowledge of SAP and IFRS
• Ability to quickly develop a detailed business understanding and how responsibilities fit in to the bigger picture
• Ability critically analyses processes with a view to improve quality and efficiency through digitisation and automation.
• Able to work in a team
• Able to strictly adhere to reporting deadlines by prioritising tasks and effective managing of responsibilities
• Able to critically analyse and challenge results
• Strong drive to continually develop and challenge oneself

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. We meet the growing energy demand across 90+ countries while ensuring our climate is protected. With more than 92,000 dedicated employees, we not only generate electricity for over 16% of the global community, but we’re also using our technology to help protect people and the environment.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

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Rewards

• Working with a global team
• Opportunities to work on and lead a variety of innovative projects
• Possibility to take over further tasks within the company
• Supportive work culture
• Continual learning through the Learn@Siemens-Energy platform
• e-Learning
• Mentorship
• Coaching
• Open feedback culture

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.