Financial Accountant - Core Group

A natural-born leader with a calculator for a brain. That’s why we need to oversee the Finance team within our Financial Shared Services Centre.

ABOUT YOU:

We’re looking for someone with:

• A BCom degree (Qualified or partly qualified CA(SA) or CIMA)
• Three or more years working in the finance industry, specifically TB processing, expense
• and balance sheet analysis. (Experience in an inventory environment is a plus.)

Who can:

• Lead – rather than manage – a team.
• Excel at Excel.
• Approach their role with a customer-centric perspective.
• Proactively problem-solve without a formal briefing.
• Ensure all our accounting objectives and KPAs are achieved.
• Talk the talk.
• Type the type.
• Pay attention to detail.
• Keep up in an industry that never stops.
• Pay attention to detail.
• Respect and accept their colleagues and peers.
• Be on time, all the time.
• Notice that 'Pay attention to detail' appeared twice in the list.

And who’ll handle:

• Review and release of various journals to achieve the required accounting outcome.
• Review of routine balance sheet control procedures and identify, escalate and resolve any risks.
• Performing the more technical and challenging reconciliations and analyses where required.
• Monitoring, escalating and resolving Sub Ledger and General Ledger differences
• Ensuring the execution of routine VAT controls that highlight VAT risks.
• The key support role in IFRS compliance.
• Staff management.
• Project management for month ends and other key reporting dates to ensure deadlines are met.
• The key support role in statutory audit.
• Supporting preparations if reporting presentations.
• Supporting ad hoc projects where required.