Assistant, Financial Accounting - Kriel at Exxaro Resources

Minimum Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Grade 12/Standard 10 Accounting (Essential/Minimum)
• Certificate Financial Management (Recommended/Desirable)

EXPERIENCE: 

• 2-3 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)

Duties & Responsibilities

Best Practice and Knowledge Management    

• Support the evaluation, implementation and management of systems and processes to meet identified organisational needs
• Actively pursue the exchange and preservation of information between operations and individuals to facilitate effective knowledge management according to organisational objectives
• Assist with audit process and continuous improvement of all the Financial Accounting operations

Business Operations    

• Provide financial, administrative and clerical services (including processing and monitoring payments and expenditures and preparing and monitoring the payroll system)
• Process relevant debtors, cash and asset accounting entries
• Verify transactions comply with financial policies and procedures
• Prepare, verify, and process sundry invoices and coding payment documents
• Prepare batches of invoices for data entry and enter invoices for payment
• Maintain updated vendor files and file numbers
• Print and distribute monthly financial reports
• Support the team in the administration of the applicable unit by assisting with arrangements/preparations for meetings, video, and/or telephone conferencing
• Ensure implementation of quality service delivery
• Ensure updated and balanced transaction accounts

Compliance, Governance and Assurance    

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

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
• 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