Being a part of the Hollywoodbets Purple Team is an opportunity to become a part of one of South Africa’s biggest success stories. From humble beginnings in Durban, Hollywoodbets has grown into a powerhouse brand operating across Africa and the United Kingdom. And that’s just the beginning. Our talented Team is on a mission to increase our global footprint, ready to take on any challenge because at Hollywoodbets, not even the sky is the limit. Join our Team and let’s reach for the stars.

We have an amazing opportunity for an Accounting and Information Reporting Manager. Do you think you have what it takes to be our newest Purple Star? We’re looking for an experienced professional to oversee the accurate, timely reporting of financial data to both internal and external stakeholders. In this key role, you will lead a dedicated team responsible for processing and reconciling financial data, ensuring compliance with reporting standards while upholding the integrity of our financial information. Your expertise will support sound business decisions and strengthen the organisation’s financial health.

With Hollywoodbets You Will:

• Innovate and create as part of a like-minded, authentic Team eager to achieve goals.
• Embrace challenges and the thrill of working in a vibrant and fast-paced industry.
• Grow with our development plans and culture that allows you to further your career.

You Bring:

• Completed Matric with English and Mathematics
• Completed Finance/ Audit related degree
• Computer literate
• Valid driver’s license
• Own Transport (Preferable)
  
  

A Bonus To Have:

• Completed SAICA Articles
• +2 years practical auditing/accounting experience
• Pastel Evolution knowledge

What You’ll Do For The Brand:

Financial Metrics / Operational Duties

• Analyse business results and prepare appropriate financial reports to reflect performance.
• Ensure accurate and timely financial reporting.
• Ensure internal controls are properly designed, implemented, and documented.
• Oversee daily financial operations, including accounting functions, maintaining the general ledger/trial balance, and ensuring the accuracy of financial data.
• Understand and evaluate business processes, identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Assist in planning and managing the implementation of improvement programmes.
• Respond to internal requests for financial information to support business decisions.
• Collect and analyse data to detect system weaknesses and identify key and residual risks.
• Identify and address weaknesses in procedures, processes, policies, and related internal control frameworks.
• Continuously seek ways to improve efficiency and effectiveness through ongoing learning, development, and the adoption of new techniques.
• Perform consulting activities and ad hoc assignments as required.
• Manage changing priorities and competing demands effectively.
• Ensure deadlines are met for all relevant tasks.
• Provide timely and accurate reporting of findings with material value or significant risk.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement through process re-engineering and change management.

Compliance, Risk and Quality

• Creating, maintaining, and enforcing company policies and procedures.
• Ensuring 100% compliance with health and safety regulations (where applicable).
• Complying with relevant laws and regulations relating to iBranch operations.
• Maintaining a strong focus on quality in communication, data capturing, documentation, etc.
• Maintaining departmental process write-ups and system descriptions, with quarterly updates.
• Ensuring logical saving of all work, templates, and related documents monthly and annually, so that each financial year’s records can stand independently for enquiries, investigations, or audits.
• Produce high-quality, neat, logical, succinct, easy-to-follow, and easy-to-understand formula-linked work, templates, workbooks, financial models, and reconciliations, all substantiated by facts and with no hardcoded numbers in formulas.
• Ensure that the final versions of the above, as well as other documents, are saved and backed up chronologically.
• Effectively engage with internal and external auditors, including SARS, NCA, and BEE auditors.
• Promote the declaration of all gifts and report any suspicious requests or behaviours while addressing departmental queries.
• Encourage the upfront declaration of all conflicts of interest.
• Foster a culture of confidentiality within the business, especially regarding the protection of personal information.
• Promote a culture of compliance with FICA and AML regulations, including the reporting of suspicious transactions.
• Ensure all personal information of loan applicants, suppliers, and other stakeholders is securely maintained and not shared inappropriately.
• Stay up to date with industry changes and updates to relevant Acts and regulations.
• Ensure that all relevant audit policies, procedures, manuals, and training materials are properly maintained and updated as needed.

Growth and New Markets/Products

• Manage key supplier relationships.
• Source new products, innovations, robotics, artificial intelligence, and predictive analytics solutions.
• Drive the development of existing products and software.
• Ensure that measures are implemented, and steps are taken to achieve short-, medium-, and long-term goals.
• Assist with or lead company projects as allocated from time to time.

People

• Approval, creation, and maintenance of roles, job descriptions, and KPIs/KPAs.
• Performance management of team members and disciplinary processes.
• Enforcing an ethical, honest, transparent, and fair work environment.
• Approving and identifying training as and when needed for team members.
• Formal setting up of individual team member meetings (initial meeting to lay out the KPIs/KPAs, quarterly tracking meeting, half-year review, and year-end review).
• Adequate recognition of team member efforts and motivation of team members.
• Talent retention (through role creation and career path planning).
• Succession planning.
• Sustainable morale and team building.
• Ethics and fraud workshops.
• Recruitment and related interviews.
• Induction and comfort of new team members.
• Appropriate and fair leave planning.
• Approval of leave and bio-time.
• Implementation of HR initiatives.
• Monitoring of team member productivity, punctuality, breaks, and smoke breaks.
• Approval and monitoring of overtime.
• Promotion of a healthy work environment.

Skills

• Good communication skills.
• Demonstrates the ability to pay attention to detail and strong presentation skills.
• Demonstrates high energy, enthusiasm, and motivation in the execution of work.
• Ability to take accountability.
• Demonstrates an exceptional level of customer service.
• Ability to coach and train.
• Demonstrates strong administration skills.
• Very driven and proactive.

What You’ll Bring To The Team:

Presentation: Demonstrates sound presentation skills to capture attention and maintain interest through an interactive approach.

Attention to Detail: Demonstrates the ability to pay attention to detail.

Facilitation: Demonstrates the ability to facilitate workshops in a professional manner.

Energy: Demonstrates high energy, enthusiasm, and motivation in the execution of work.

Accountability: Follows through and delivers results despite obstacles. Admits to errors and takes corrective action to avoid repetition. Approaches own work with dedication and a high sense of responsibility.

Customer Orientation: Demonstrates an exceptional level of customer service and quality standards.

Coaching: Coaching is the knowledge and skill used to direct, instruct, and/or train an employee with the aim to fulfil a goal in order to develop specific skills in an enthusiastic and motivated way.

Administration: Executes a variety of functions within a business administrative environment. Plans and organises administrative functions proactively. Collects information and ensures the accuracy of information.

Training: Proficient in training methodologies, curriculum development, and soft skills.

So, are you ready to level up, learn, and perform at your best? Apply now!

Please note that only applicants who meet the stipulated minimum requirements will be considered.

If you have not been contacted within 30 days, kindly consider your application unsuccessful.