Financial Accountant

3 weeks ago

Cape Town, South Africa Merand Corbett & Associates Full time
Duties and Responsibilities
  • Oversee and review the bank reconciliations prepared by the bookkeepers.
  • Ensure that all transactions processed in the general ledger for entities under your remit are valid, accurate and complete.
  • Ensure that month-end financial packs including balance sheet reconciliations are prepared for the review of the Senior Financial Accountant within the stipulated deadlines.
  • Preparation of accurate journals and monthly reconciliations with third party pay-in and pay-out partners.
  • Assist the Group Tax team with the preparation of timely and accurate tax submissions for the entities under your remit.
  • Assistance in the delivery of the year-end audit including drafting the statutory financial statements for review by the Senior Financial Accountant and Group Reporting Manager.
  • Preparation of various other statutory or regulatory returns for the entities under your remit.
  • Involvement in various finance improvement projects, including system implementations, month end process efficiencies, new market expansion and business maturity workstreams.
  • Internal liaison with other departments to assist in solving commercials issues as they arise.

Key requirements
  • Accounting degree (essential)
  • Studying towards CA (SA), CIMA or SAIPA qualification (preferable)
  • 2-3 years experience in a financial environment or completed articles (essential)
  • Experience of multi-national Groups structures, preferably across the African continent and/or the UK (preferable)
  • Finance business systems experience across ERP platforms, preferably Netsuite
  • Experience in preparing VAT and Corporate tax returns which will be delivered in conjunction with the internal Tax function (preferable)
  • Experience working in financial services or highly regulated industries beneficial (preferable)
  • Experience working in high growth/fast-moving organisations (preferable)
  • Advanced time management and organisational skills (essential)
  • Advanced MS Office skills (essential)

Additional skills
  • Shares a passion for the organisation's purpose and enjoys working in a fast-paced, informal but extremely ambitious company.
  • Hands-on self-starter, who knows what to do without being told, with a no-nonsense get it done attitude, quickly diagnosing issues, proposing and executing solutions in a short timeframe.
  • Ability to work under pressure, commercial acumen, and capable of linking the role to shareholder value creation / profitability.
  • Keen to be part of a multi-cultural organisation that is committed to excellence, inclusion, diversity, community development and the environment.
  • Ability to look for efficiencies and improvements in any process rather than just accept the status quo.
*** Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted ***

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