Job Description

PURPOSE OF THE POSITION:
To ensure compliance of the organisation's accounting records with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and to provide timeous and useful reporting information for decision making purposes.MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• BCom Accounting + Honours + CA.
• At least 2 years' experience post articles.
• Computer literacy (Intermediate).

COMPETENCIES REQUIRED:

• Proactive and action orientated.
• Acts with honesty and consistency.
• Solves problems through effective decision making.
• Collaborates with others to achieve a common objective.
• Business acumen.
• Communicates effectively.
• Ability to plan and organize.

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS OF THE POSITION:Maintain policy and procedures:

• Draft financial policies and procedures when and where required.
• Train staff to work according to the policies and procedures.
• Ensure that all financial actions adhere to the corporate governance and compliance framework.

Maintain and control business systems:

• Ensure integrity of all system data input.
• Ensure compliance to accounting standards (IFRS).
• Ensure proper handling of source documentation.
• Timeous processing of all transactions.
• Ensure compliance with statutory requirements, e.g. E-filing, VAT, Employees tax, CIPC, etc.
• Liaise with accounts payable and accounts receivable functions to ensure correct posting within the ERP system.
• Calculate and prepare schedules for accruals/provisions/complex accounting transactions for review by FM.

Completion of financial and management reports:

• Ensure accurate and timeous financial reporting.
• Ensure that financials are reported on due dates, correct and accurate to all relevant Managers as required.
• Complete year end schedules for company auditors.
• Liaise and assist auditors with any requests for information.
• Assist with drafting of company and group annual financial statements.
• Report any undue actions that may occur in a department.
• Ensure that all sub-ledgers reconcile with main accounts.

Budget processes:

• Provide managers with useful info to assist them in budget process.
• Ensure that the intended and final budget is uploaded into the company's required system.

Manage staff:

• Conduct performance management of team members.
• Manage discipline of team (execute company disciplinary procedures).
• Training of Finance team as and when required.

Ad-hoc:

• Support the financial manager with any ad-hoc reports/analysis as requested .

Please note should you not receive a response within two weeks of applying you may assume that your application was unsuccessful.

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