Discovery Limited

Accountant

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Job Description

Discovery – In-House: Finance

Accountant

About Discovery

Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

About In-house Finance

The In-House Finance team is responsible for the financial and regulatory reporting throughout the financial year. We look after all the financial reporting matters relating to the 18 restricted medical schemes administered by Discovery Health (Pty) Ltd. We are primarily a work-from-home team that is required in office from time to time.

Key Purpose

To take responsibility for the entire financial reporting function of various Discovery administered resctricted medical schemes. From the processing of journals up to the preparation of management accounts and reporting to the Council for Medical Schemes.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

  • Preparation of journals and management accounts
  • Month-end reconciliations (balance sheet and income statement)
  • Completion and submission of statutory returns
  • Liaising directly with relevant external parties (Clients, auditors, service providers)
  • Maintaining and Enhancing Internal Financial Controls

Personal Attributes and Skills

  • Attention to detail
  • Reliable
  • Motivated
  • Team player
  • Self-driven in a work from home environment
  • Strong communication skills (written and verbal)
  • Good time management skills
  • Analytical thinker
  • Proficient in Excel
  • Working Independently

Education and Experience

  • Accounting degree or equivalent
  • 1-2 years’ experience in an accounting role
  • Good understanding of accounting principles and application thereof
  • MS Outlook
  • Intermediate level Excel

Advantageous

  • 1 year experience within a finance reporting environment
  • Sage Pastel

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY

The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

Discovery Limited

About Discovery Limited

Imagine a world where people live healthier, more enhanced and protected lives… A world in which each organisation is a powerful influencer and responsible corporate citizen, committed to being a force for social good. As a leading innovator in healthcare, wellness, insurance, investments, financial and life planning, Discovery works ceaselessly to make this vision a reality.

Fuelled by our passion for enhancing lives and our desire to innovate, Discovery consistently sets global standards, creating shared value through shared intellectual capital. A testament to this is our Vitality programme, which is both a platform to incentivise people to live healthier lives as well as a channel through which shared value is delivered.

We are a proudly South African-born, global company with health, life and short term insurance operations in South Africa and the United Kingdom, and a presence in Germany, France, the United States, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, China and Japan through our Global Vitality Network. We uphold our promise of shared value by being a positive disruptor that focusses on bringing about sustainable change in the lives of the people and communities we serve across the globe.

Our Vitality Shared-Value Insurance model has received international recognition, including being ranked 17th in Fortune’s index of 51 companies “changing the world” in August 2015, and named a leading health innovator at the World Economic Forum in January 2017.

Our values of leadership, honesty, innovation and fairness act as our compass, directing our business practices to take advantage of every opportunity while looking for ways to dazzle clients.

With an unwavering commitment to being the best shared value insurance organisation in the world, Discovery is a powerful force for social good.

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Johannesburg, ZA
Year Founded
1992
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