International Manufacturing concern seeks a skilled Accountant. West Rand based. Excellent growth opportunity.
Please email applications through to sian@armstrongappointments.com
Main job function
Be responsible for ensuring completeness, validity, and accuracy of financial information in the accounting and reporting systems in line with the accounting manual and IFRS. Including oversight of accounts payable function. Full responsibility for cashbook function, including Bank reconciliations, following up and clearing of reconciling items, daily cash management, foreign payments, and other ad hoc payments
Financial Reporting and Accounting
Accounting, Tax & regulatory and financial reporting
Payroll accounting
Month-end closure activities including journal processing and closure of subledgers Compile and publish standard internal and group financial month-end reporting packs
Reconciliation of all balance sheet accounts per group guidelines
Monthly group and divisional ad-hoc and standard reporting
Facilitating annual external audit
Ensure statutory compliance for local SA legal entities
Accounts Payable
Management of Accounts Payable function. This includes AP and GRNI reconciliation review
Supervision of including, supervise 2 creditors staff
Treasury & Cashbook
Process the cash book timeously and accurately
Review the cashbook to ensure that there are no errors or duplicated transactions
Accurate and Timely filing of all cheque requests and payment information
Ensure that all transactions are recorded in the correct amount, period, classification, allocation and are valid
Advise the Financial Controller immediately if the bank or cashbook is in overdraft
Maintain bank mandates (signatory rights) for all signatories for all accounts
Manage, track, and resolve all banking queries
Timeous completion of monthly bank reconciliations for all bank accounts in all currencies (ensure that the last day of the trading bank statement is being used to perform bank reconciliation)
Process accurate exchange translations, gain and losses
Ensure that all transactions up to the last day of trading are recorded in the cashbook and unprocessed transactions are provided for with Financial Controller approval
Validation and reconciliation of petty cash amounts held in various business units
Other
Ability to interact with various departments including finance, commercial and operational departments
Manage and comply with local, state and government reporting requirements and tax filings (Statistics SA and SARS Vat)
Develop and documents business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls
BCom Qualification (Bachelor’s degree in accounting, business, economics, finance, or a related field)
Minimum 5-year commercial experience, preferably in Manufacturing or FMCG
Communication and presentation skills
Ability to understand broader business issues
Commercial awareness
Highly organized
Problem solving skills
Numerical proficiency
A Consultant will be in touch if you are shortlisted for the position. Please consider your application unsuccessful should you not have been contacted within 2 weeks. We will keep your CV on our database and contact you should you match the criteria of any other vacancies.
