Financial Controller

Our client is an urban property developer, who focuses on urban apartment living in the Atlantic Seaboard and City Bowl of Cape Town. They are seeking a Financial/Reporting Controller to join their team.

**_ KEY FOCUS AREAS:_**

FINANCIAL FEASABILITIES & ANALYSIS
- Analysing Project financial feasibilities and profit returns
- Calculating Project interest rolls
- Mapping out Project funding split, raise targets & pre-sale targets
- Analysing Project IRR’s and Net profit returns
- Analysing Project costing efficiencies

OPERATIONAL
- Cash Flow Management (Daily updates, Budget vs Actual tracking, driving key cash flow items)
- Cash Flow forecasting for Projects and Group
- Project Bank draw recons and submissions
- VAT facility recons & VAT submissions reviews
- Revenue forecasting and tracking
- Overhead budgeting and tracking
- Tax related matters when applicable
- New entity set-up - from a SARS, Accounting package and CIPC perspective
- Legal agreement implementation and review

SECRETARIAL
- Booking shareholder meetings
- Compiling meeting agenda’s and minutes

ACCOUNTING
- Audit oversight and management
- Overseeing complete and accurate trial balances
- Accounting system changes and improvement implementation
- Focusing on efficiencies
- Developing and implementing smart & live reporting
- Reconciling Sales system and Accounting system
- Reconciling 3rd party platform reports and providing sales splits
- Review of payroll
- Posting sales, interest and transfer journals

REPORTING & PACK CREATION
- Leadership reporting
- Management Reporting
- Shareholders Reporting
- Project Reporting
- Bank funding pack creation
- Project reconciliations between departmental reports
- Viability updates

OTHER
- Providing support where applicable to the Finance Director and Financial Manager
- General ad hoc duties as the company sees fit

**_IDEAL QUALIFICATIONS:_**
- 3-5 years’ experience in a similar role
- Degree in Finance or Accounting non-negotiable
- Xero and Syft accounting software experience non-negotiable
- CA (SA) or CIMA qualification preferred
- Construction related experience preferred
- Must love a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- A highly-organised individual who is responsible to manage tasks on their own
- Hard-worker, efficient, deadline focused, high attention to detail and strong ability to self-review work
- Incredibly neat and have extensive experience with reporting pack compilations
- Must be good with people and work well in a team
- Proficient in Microsoft 365 suite (Outlook, Teams, Office)
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills(pivot tables, vlookups, complex if formulas)