GSK: Finance Graduate Internship/how to apply!
As a Finance Graduate, you will be responsible for South Africa (SA) payment processing, month-end reporting, assisting with planning activities, and all other day-to-day requirements. You will also ensure quality financial processes, systems, and tools are introduced and maintained to support the business’s cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities:
- Proactively follow up with distributors, regarding outstanding documents.
- Prepare GL postings that correctly reflect the nature of the transaction for completed payments and timeously submit them to the Finance Shared Services team
- Preparation of monthly Aspen journals including sales recon.
- Preparation of monthly headcount report.
- Preparation of the Advertising & Promotion (A&P) expense tracker and the Opex tracker on a monthly basis
- Assist the SA Finance business partner with the monthly forecasting and annual budgeting of headcount, CAPEX, and depreciation of new CAPEX.
- Ensure that there are SOPs / Knowledge Documents to support the systems and processes.
- Completion and acknowledgment of relevant SOP’s and e-learning
- Maintain ERP data in SAP
- Prepare and participate in ad-hoc analysis and projects as required.
- Ensure adequate financial control systems and processes are in place
- Ad-hoc data analysis
- Partnering with business to explain SG&A spend variances
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum BCom (Accounting), Preferably completing CIMA qualification
- Experience in MS Office (Good working knowledge of Excel)
Competencies:
- Understanding of Financial and Management Accounting concepts
- Knowledge of IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards)
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and deliver timeously on deadlines
- Ability to grasp concepts quickly and take ownership of own learning
- Display initiative by proactively seeking solutions to challenges
- Must be able to work overtime as and when required
- Good written and spoken English
