Assistant Accountant

3 months ago

Pietermaritzburg, South Africa Aloecrest Health Medical Hospital Full time

The assistant accountant is responsible for providing support to the Regional Operations Managers and Financial Manager. It is expected of the assistant accountant to understand the business, flow of processes and ensure correct accounting entries are processed on time. Assisting with budgeting and internal as well as external audits will be his / her responsibility and attention to detail and accuracy is essential. Training on systems as well as implementation of accounting standards across the business will form part of the assistant accountant’s duties as well as analysis and review of clinic financials on clinic level. The assistant accountant is responsible for the timeous completion of all accounting functions by his / her team as prescribed by his / her line manager. A strong work ethic and dedication is required. The incumbent needs to be able to work under pressure and be deadline driven.

KEY WORK OUTPUT AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

Assist with Financial Planning and Budgeting activities
- Assist with the preparation of budgets and quarterly forecasts
- Review budgets and quarterly forecasts for accuracy and completeness
- Review and suggest improvements for the budgeting and planning process

Interim and year-end reporting
- Assist with the planning and preparing of the Group interim results
- Ensuring all financial entries required are processed accurately and timeously
- Prepare disclosure schedules detailing additional disclosure information
- Produce quality control reports to ensure accuracy and completeness
- Make recommendations on improvement of the reports and improve systems and control checks where necessary
- Balance Sheet reconciliations and corrections
- Assist internal and external auditors with queries at year-end and mid-year audits

Financial Reports and processes
- Ensuring that accurate accounting entries are processed per profit centre on a monthly basis
- Assist with the preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual management reports
- Liaise with line manager to ensure appropriate provisions, accruals and corrections are processed timeously
- Obtain inputs and commentary on performance and variances against prior months, budget or forecast
- Collate divisional key performance indicators
- Assess reasonability of divisional key performance indicators and report and follow up on any discrepancies
- Prepare disclosure notes
- Review Remittance in Transit reconciliations (bank reconciliations) prepared by the clinics
- Review salary schedules
- Prepare Balance Sheet reconciliations
- Liaise with property division, Central Payments Department, and Group reporting to resolve queries, report accurate financial data and fix any errors timeously

Ad-Hoc projects
- Improve financial reporting systems and management systems where required
- Implement changes to financial accounting standards in the business
- Assist with ad-hoc projects

Staff development
- Assist with managing the outputs and tasks from the admin controllers
- Assist with developing and training staff
- Ensure responsible staff bills clients correctly and collections are according to payment terms including query resolution
- Ensure all CPD activities are submitted according to CPD processes

Business Support
- Support Regional Operations Manager with all financial queries
- Assist to resolve all SAP queries for activities performed by operational staff
- Responsible to ensure audit requirements from existing client contracts are met

Personal and professional development
- Assume responsibility for own personal and professional development
- Keep up to date with Aloecrest’s evolving policies and procedures
- Maintain and improve personal skills and knowledge levels
- Stay abreast of latest developments/upgrades and statutory requirements that may change

Transformation
- Ensure achievement of transformation goals as set out by the Transformation Committee

Teamwork
- Actively participate as a member of a team to achieve goals

Build and maintain stakeholder relationships
- Work effectively and co-operatively with others to establish and maintain good working relationships that are mutually beneficial
- Create and maintain a positive environment where the differences of others are recognized, understood, and valued, so that all can reach their full potential and maximize their contributions Develop collaborative relationships to help accomplish work goal

EDUCATION
- Grade 12 or equivalent NQF level 4 certificate
- A relevant tertiary qualification at a minimum of NQF level 7 or currently studying towards

WORK EXPERIENCE
- A minimum of 3 years’ experience in leadership/ management role

KNOWLEDGE
- SAP knowledge is essential
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to analyse and interpret data
- Strong communication skills to interact with Internal and External Stakeholders are essential

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: R18,000.00 -

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