ACCOUNTANT RETAIL

2 days ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Jean Fowlds Consultancy Full time

RETAIL ACCOUNTANT POSITION Bryanston office

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A DEMANDING POSITION AND REQUIRES MANY HOURS OF WORK. Hi-paced environment and have to take on full responsibilities for expected duties.


Market-related salary

BENEFITS:
1. 15% Provident fund
2. 13th cheque
3. Profit share (February & September after 6 month period)

Requirements:
Accounting degree; SAP; proven track record in an accounting role specifically in the retail industry.
Must reside in JHB area.
Fluency in the Afrikaans language is advantageous.

AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY.

A Financial Accountant position has become available in my esteemed clients Finance department, specifically in their Retail (a business unit within the Group). The Financial Accountant will resume responsibility for approximately 13 stores across South Africa. This may increase or decrease in the future, depending on new stores that may open.

Important: The candidate needs to be in tune with robotic processes and automation. The client has changed manual processes through automation, they have started this 6 years ago, so quite far ahead of most finance departments and in the last year the use of a bot.

The Role will include the following duties and responsibilities but is not limited to:

1. Day to day responsibilities:

Daily clearing of banking general ledger accounts on SAP, relating to daily cash ups by the stores. Cash and credit card payments are received from the bank on a daily basis and needs to be reconciled back to the store cash ups.
Daily bank clearing for all other deposits and payments.
Assisting the stores with queries relating to customer card issues, refunds to customers or customer receipts.
Daily processing of payments to non-stock suppliers on behalf of the stores. This will include receiving and validating Tax Invoices, Supplier entity details and BBBEE certificates, for capturing to SAP.

2. Monthly responsibilities:

Full Stock vendor reconciliations completed on SAP for payments to suppliers on the 15th and 31st of the month. Stock supplier reconciliations and payments are split amongst the 2 Accountants and is done for all the stores.
Maintaining the Asset register for each store on SAP new assets, retirements and monthly depreciation.
Monthly review of stores income statement and ensure that all entries are recorded correctly.
Assisting the stores with Income statement queries and resolutions to such queries.
Monitor and query any variances to the stores budgets.
Balance sheet and Bank reconciliations completed on SAP monthly and in agreed time frame.
Resolving any balance sheet items within the following month.
Reconcile and complete monthly Vat return for the company.
Preparation of monthly management accounts by 7th month.
Attending monthly financial review meetings with directors.
Completion of Board Reports every 6 months.

3. Adhoc Responsibilities:
Assisting with providing information with for Income Tax calculations
Assisting with all audit queries, in a timeous manner, at half year, interim and year end audit.
Income statement training for store operators.
Assist Company Directors with queries.
Assist stores with annual budget process.
Preparation of final budget for all stores.

Requirements:
Proficiency in English (read, write and speak).
Proven track record in an accounting role.
Proficiency in MS Office and an accounting package.
High attention to detail and problem- solving skills.
Customer Service orientated and being able to communicate appropriately.
Relevant Accounting qualification
Able to cope under strict deadlines and manage high volumes of data.
Note the Group Finance department is required to work either Saturday or a Sunday (2 days per month) in order to provide support to all the stores

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