Job Description


Prepare financial reports required by various stakeholders and accurately reflect business position and performance. Analyse the entity’s financial performance and provide financial data to the rest of the team, allowing them to make budgeting and investment decisions as and when required. Providing professional accounting support to the Finance Manager.


Responsibilities:

Management Accounts


Ensuring all month end journals are processed expeditiously and accurately.
Review monthly reconciliations (bank, debtors, creditors, prepayments, and accruals)
Prepare monthly management accounts (Income statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow statement)
Input forecasts obtained from the Financial manager into the management accounts
Liaise with relevant internal stakeholders to manage spend (over or under)
Ensure accounting treatment of various transactions is in accordance with IFRS
Maintain accurate reconciliations
Ability to assist with various inputs required for CEO reports


Cashbook/Financial Accounting


Capture and document all bank statement transactions accurately
Prepare and finalize monthly bank reconciliations
Resolve issues with promptly to ensure month end deadlines are met.
Ensure adhoc payments and receipts are allocated to the correct accounts.


Tax


Review of VAT 201
Review and release SARS (VAT) payments
Assist with loading provisional taxes bi-annually
Assist with providing information for annual tax returns
Review tax
Liaise with relevant consultants in relation to SARS matters.


Budget


Assist the FM in preparing the operational expenses budget
Once approved, load approved budget on the system


Audit


Ensure all deadlines are met.
Field off requests from auditors independently and promptly.
Ensuring all year end journals are processed expeditiously and accurately.
Source information requested by auditors to support and expedite the audit process e.g. Policies, Financial statements etc.
Liaison with auditors for query resolutions
Prepare Annual Financial Statements in accordance with IFRS .


Risk Management


Assist FM with developing effective financial policies and control procedures.
Maintaining all internal controls and systems in the department to ensure efficiency whilst supporting the FM
Monitor, manage and recommend improvements to the current internal control procedures
Identifying and report any breach in controls with the finance environment


Administration


Ensure payment policy is followed
Post and/or authorise transfers for the Financial Manager to review and release
Liaison with Bankers as and when necessary
Proper, well-organized, and user-friendly filling system.
Support data collection processes and ensure financial data quality
Save correct monthly Trial Balances for each entity on server (Previous year trial balance, Month trial balance, Year to date GL, attach bank statement relevant to the month)
Support financial administrators with banking/payments when required
Maintaining effective communication and positive working relationships


Job Requirements


B Com degree (Accounting)


EXPERIENCE


5-8 years post articles finance experience in a similar role
Tax knowledge beneficial


SYSTEMS AND TECHNICAL EXPERTISE


Intermediate excel skills – ability to maintain integrity of spreadsheets
Adequate working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)
Prior experience with SAP is an advantage
Working Knowledge of the IFRS and IAS reporting policies