Fortunate Hoza

· Data Analysis and Reporting

· Analyse past ROH financial performance, budgets, and forecasts to inform operational and strategic decisions.

· Prepare internal reports and financial statements, ensuring accuracy and timely delivery.

· Oversee and govern operational data to ensure the KPI dashboard accurately reports and tracks performance across the group, maintaining data integrity and enabling actionable insights

· Collaborate with Finance Business Partners in the Stack to analyse management reports provided by their team/ROH departments, offering group-wide insights to identify opportunities, align targets, and drive cost-efficiency strategies.

· Analyse and interpret standard monthly management reports received from the Group Reporting and Finance Shared Services, identifying insights and actions.

· Evaluate and manage ad hoc requests for financial performance metrics, ensuring compliance with data governance standards and prioritising requests based on strategic alignment and operational impact.

· Budget Management and Financial Oversight

• Develop, manage, and monitor Hub budgets and associated costs, ensuring alignment with operational objectives.

• Review cost centre forecasts for the Retail Operations Hub, ensuring the planning tool accurately reflects actuals and projections for all costs.

• Oversee financial processes related to cost allocations, recoveries (chargebacks), and forecasts, addressing any concerns and guiding outcomes to approach and resolution.

• Populate journal templates and supporting documentation for submission to the Record to Report function, including accruals and intercompany entries.

• Perform sundry cost centre management activities

• Support with year-end procedures and reports

· Financial Planning and Business Support

• Contribute to financial planning by developing and managing financial systems and policies.

• Advise on strategic initiatives and propose business strategies for the ROH to drive shareholder value.

• Support ROH Managers in developing business cases for operational cost budgets by preparing financial models and providing expert guidance.

• Accompany the Head of the Retail Operations Hub to engage Brand Finance Business Partners to secure approvals and communicate decisions.

• Provide financial input on Group-wide operational employee incentives developed by HR, ensuring alignment with operational and financial models and metrics.

· Stakeholder Consultation and Collaboration

• Support the Head of Retail Operations Hub with key financial decisions and performance analysis.

• Act as the interface between the Hub and the internal Finance community (BPs, Group reporting, and Finance Shared Services).

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to drive strong engagements across the finance operating model.

• Ensure the engagement with relevant internal and external stakeholders within TFG.

· Process Optimisation and Compliance

• Identify opportunities to streamline financial processes, improving efficiency and accuracy.

• Ensure compliance with financial policies, standards, and robust controls.

• Act as a subject-matter expert for financial tools and systems, supporting their implementation and management.

• Act as a super user for the Non-Merchandise Procurement tool – Coupa – for the ROH.

• Ensuring the relevant services are complete, delivery notes provided and uploaded to BIM before receipting of supplier invoices

• Resolving vendor account queries

• Collaborate with IT and finance teams to implement best practices, standardized procedures, and automated solutions for financial management and reporting.
• Providing financial insight and analysis on IT and other cost allocation to the business which impacts the performance of the organisation.
• Ownership of accurate and timely transactional processing and financial reporting, budgeting, and forecasting at the divisional level, as required by the business.
• Prepare timely and accurate financial reports for IT management, executive leadership, and other stakeholders, including variance analysis.
• Support the Business Partner in analysing management reports and financial performance of the division against its specific targets, previous years, and non-financial data.
• Ensure compliance with internal controls and accounting standards.
• Manage and optimize costs, including licenses, subscriptions, and external services.
• Understand IT cost allocations to the business and drive resolution of queries from the business of the charges.
• Identify opportunities for cost savings, efficiency improvements, and resource optimization within the division.
• Lead a team, providing guidance, coaching, and support to foster professional growth and development.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the finance team.
• Management/Execution of ad hoc projects.

• Prepare consolidated financial statements, reviewed financial statements and interim financial statements and notes from the trial balance, including Short Form announcement.
• Responsible for the IFRS 16 property accounting, both at transactional and reporting level, this includes RECEEP, RECEEPPV, and extraction of RECESH report and AR02, processing valuations, preparing and posting adjusting journals.
• Support rental and accounts payable of any discrepancies in rent paid.
• On the job coaching and training for the lease administration team to prevent common mistakes that impact lease accounting.
• Perform/review complex IFRS 2 calculations and post-related journal entries.
• Assist in reviewing bank reconciliations.
• Assist with the preparation of Group monthly deliverables (including consolidation) as well as the month-end close process and provide additional supporting analysis.
• Providing audit deliverables and assisting with the audit process to ensure a smooth audit.
• Assist with the monthly forecasting, budget and reporting process.
• Provide support on IFRS matters, disclosure items, new accounting standards and technical account matters.
• Assist with group projects and ensure these have been accurately implemented as well as reported.
• Prepare the Board audit com presentation at half year and year-end.
• Respond to JSE Proactive monitoring comments to board.
• Prepare Value in use calculation for all the GCU.
• Prepare Treasury share register and ensure investment costs are accurate.
• Prepare IFRS 16 disclosures.
• Prepare HEPS and EPS Calculation.
• Review IFRS 9 disclosures.
• Prepare STATS SA survey.
• Prepare tax disclosure (Deferred tax, current tax and taxation paid) for accounting packs and Annual Financial Statements.
• Performed assessment of actuarial gain on a post-retirement defined benefit plan on whether it should be in OCI or directly in equity.

• Full audit work for international companies using both GAAP and IFRS.

• Full audit work for listed entities, real estate entities and public entities in South Africa.

• Full audit work for listed entities on JSE, ZARX, public entities and real estate entities.

• Preparation of bank reconciliations.
• Preparation of debtors and creditors reconciliation and age analysis.
• Assisting with fixed asset bar-coding of assets and preparation of the fixed asset register.
• Review and analysis of purchasing of consumables (e.g., stationary).