Job Description

Closing Date 2025/04/01
Reference Number MMH250317-4
Job Title Accountant (Zestlife)
Position Type Permanent
Role Family Finance
Cluster Guardrisk
Remote Opportunity Some of the time
Location - Country South Africa
Location - Province Western Cape
Location - Town / City Claremont, Cape Town
IntroductionWe are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Accountant to join our team. As an Accountant at Zestlife, you will play a critical role in supporting the accounting function, ensuring accurate and efficient financial transactions, and driving process improvements. If you are a motivated and detail-orientated accounting professional looking for a new challenge, we encourage you to apply.
Disclaimer As an applicant, please verify the legitimacy of this job advert on our company career page.
Role PurposeAccurately control and process financial information and prepare financial reports and analysis to enable business processes.
RequirementsMinimum Qualifications:

• Degree in Financial Management or Accounting

Minimum Experience:

• 3-5 years experience in accounting, not 'article only' experience
• Intermediate to advanced Excel

Technical Requirements:

• Solid experience and understanding of financial accounting principles, business processes, and risks.
• Analytical skills.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Accurately, efficiently capture and report on transactions and related data.
• Reviewing system reports and recalculating values.
• Preparation of reconciliations and resolution of reconciling items.
• Identify and resolve accounting issues, discrepancies, and problems.
• Build and maintain relationships with clients, stakeholders, and peers.
• Deliver exceptional service, meeting service level agreements and deadlines.
• Operational involvement in credit control and retention process.

Competencies

• Business Acumen: Understands how the business operates, key processes, issues, and risks.
• Collaboration: Prioritises the business interests and invests in the success of the group by aligning effort across divisions.
• Client/Stakeholder Commitment: Anticipates, meets, and exceeds the clients needs by creating long-lasting relationships that support the client value proposition, support their financial wellness, and ensure client centricity.
• Impact and Influence: Persuades, convinces, influences, and inspires others, both within the company and externally, to win support, loyalty, and gain commitment to the purpose of the company.

Drive for Results: Drive a sense of urgency, focus, accountability, agility, and execution to deliver business results. * Self-Awareness and Insight: Manages self and relationships with others effectively and provides perspective in difficult situations.Leads Change and Innovation: Actively leads change, does what is right for the business, and drives continuous improvement through innovation. * Diversity and Inclusiveness: Is sensitive to individual and cultural similarities and differences and demonstrates humility and an openness to engage people from diverse backgrounds and cultures to the mutual benefit of all parties concerned.

• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently, collaboratively, and adapt to change.
• Good time management skills.

PolicyWe are committed to Employment Equity, diversity and inclusion when recruiting internally and externally. All appointments are made in alignment to our Employment Equity goals and we encourage people with disabilities to apply.

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