Team Leader: Pensions Administration - Accounting - Fsd

Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Define and set work priorities, ensuring that the team meets both internal and regulatory deadlines.
• Ensure adherence to controls and processes so that the team's tasks meet compliance standards.
• Review and provide first-level authorisation for payments, accounting transactions and data entries captured by junior team members, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
• Lead and participate in engagements with internal and external stakeholders, demonstrating a strong service orientation in the ability to obtain, convey and explain information clearly.
• Engage with stakeholders on complex pension-related accounting matters, ensuring that they understand the fund's processes and policies.
• Collaborate with other departments to ensure seamless pension fund accounting operations.
• Diagnose and resolve problems in the team's operations, recommending changes to workflows or processes where necessary.
• Equip the team to resolve issues by providing guidance on troubleshooting, process improvements and effective solutions.
• Review and authorise reports required by legislation and regulations, as well as internal reports for the fund's board and subcommittees, ensuring that they are timely, compliant and complete.
• Manage the team's performance, providing feedback and guidance to junior team members.
• Keep abreast of changes to pension legislation, ensuring that the team is informed and adapts to new requirements.
• Review all reconciliations to ensure that they are completed accurately and on time.

Qualifications

Job requirements

To be considered for this position, candidates must have:

• a bachelor's degree (NQF-level 8) in accounting;
• five to seven years' job-related experience in a financial services environment;
• two to five years' experience in leading teams; and
• pension administration accounting experience would be an advantage.

Additional requirements include:

knowledge and skill in:

• industry, organisational and business awareness;
• quality assurance;
• continuous improvement;
• continuous learning and/or professional development;
• retirement fund legislation and governance, risk and compliance;
• financial accounting;
• financial reconciliation;
• function-specific performance management;
• function-specific information systems;
• business continuity planning;
• relevant legislation;
• corporate governance;
• conceptual thinking;
• effective communication;
• flexibility;
• driving results;
• promoting teamwork;
• building and maintaining relationships;
• judgement and decision-making;
• impact and influence;
• analysis and problem-solving;
• managing complexity and ambiguity;
• developing others;
• planning and organising; and
• resilience.