Senior Assistant, Financial Accounting

Minimum Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS:
• Grade 12/Standard 10 (Essential/Minimum)
• Certificate Financial Management (Essential/Minimum)
• Diploma Financial Management (Recommended/Desirable)

EXPERIENCE: 

 3 years Relevant Accounting experience as well as exposure to Project Administration, Document formatting and general administration (Essential/Minimum) Operational

REQUIREMENTS: 
• Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)
• Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)
• English (Essential/Minimum)

Compliance, Governance and Assurance

• Execute and implements responsibilities in adherence to legislative and corporate governance principles
• Ensure all information and reporting has integrity and is in strict compliance with proper accounting principles and law
• Ensure function adheres to governance, policies, standards, statutory and legal compliance. Entrench a culture of discipline

Customer, Stakeholder and Client Relationship Management

• Manage internal and external relations, including interface with service providers and applicable Business Units (BU's), as well as other functions responsible tonsure that business needs are met and employees are satisfied
• Ensure quality customer service delivery

Financial Support Services  

• Provide financial, administrative and clerical support services
• Process debtors, cash and asset accounting entries
• Prepare, verify and process sundry invoices and coding payment documentation
• Prepare invoices for data entry and enter invoices for payment
• Provide quality ensured financial/administrative services
• Process relevant debtors, accounting entries
• Reconcile accounts to source documents
• Verify compliance to policies and procedures
• Manage workflow
• Maintain document management system
• Provide consultation aligned with customer agreements
• Identify improvement opportunities within portfolio
• Ensure Quality customer service delivery
• Ensure transaction accounts are updated and balanced

Functional Excellence

• Adhere to functional policies, standards, guidelines, procedures, end- to-end processes, tools, templates etc.
• Assist in standardising, simplifying and speeding-up functional processes, eliminating duplication/bureaucracy
• Apply functional best practices, promote sharing of best practices/knowledge

People Management

• Performance management: Adhere to performance management procedures
• Company culture/functional climate: Uphold the Company culture and values within the function. Foster effective teamwork and unity

Safe and Healthy Work Environment

• Maintain and ensure a healthy environment, safe operations practices, ensuring compliance with all applicable Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) policies procedures in line with set standards
• Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in all operations

Behavioural Alignment

Demonstrates the following:
• Creativity, collaboration, sociable and awareness to the ecosystem
• Stewardship, accountability, ability to develop trust, safety conscious and ethical
• Ability to respond quickly to business needs/agility, flexibility, continuous learning, innovation and proven ability to experiment on creative business solutions
• Ability to be inclusive, eagerness for multiple skills, embraces multiple cultures, accepts different approaches and be human-centric/empathetic
• Results oriented, quality driven, excellence, entrepreneurial abilities, efficient and effective