Assistant to Financial Manager – Logistics industry – Gqeberha, Eastern Cape at Hire Resolve

Job Description

• Hire Resolve’s client in the Logistics industry is urgently seeking the expertise of an Assistant to the Financial Manager in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape.

Responsibilities:

• Process interest and bank charges from bond, loan, and HP statements.
• Maintain the fixed asset register, including processing monthly depreciation for over 95 trucks, 135 trailers, and various other vehicles and equipment.
• Conduct monthly reconciliation of vehicle amortisation schedules and process associated interest and finance charges.
• Create and maintain comprehensive reports related to fixed assets and HPs.
• Reconcile diesel statements against QuickBooks records and purchase statements.
• Track and process sales accruals.
• Perform VAT calculations and reconcile VAT for multiple companies.
• Compile and analyse monthly management accounts for multiple companies.
• Compare, analyse, reconcile, and report on differences between daily management reports and monthly management accounts.
• Reconcile intercompany loan accounts, as well as internal customer and supplier accounts.
• Review the outputs of bookkeepers to ensure accuracy and compliance with international accounting standards and SARS regulations.
• Provide assistance to bookkeepers with basic accounting software issues.
• Compile information required for the annual BEE audit.
• Complete Stats SA questionnaires.
• Support the research and implementation of new policies and procedures across all departments.
• Assist other departments with monthly Excel working sheets.
• Create formulated Excel sheets to automate processes.
• Assist the administrative department during busy periods or when staff are absent.
• Provide support to the Financial Manager, COO, and CEO with additional requirements.
• Assist auditors by providing necessary information for monthly audits.
• Analyse physical stock counts, compare them to QuickBooks figures, and investigate any discrepancies.

Requirements:

• BCom or BTech in accounting.
• 3 years of experience in an accounting practice, demonstrating an understanding of all financial department operations.
• Advanced level of Excel proficiency is required and considered the most vital criterion.
• Eagerness to grow and apply problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to review bookkeepers' outputs to ensure accuracy according to international accounting standards and SARS regulations, emphasizing the importance of theoretical knowledge.
• Capable of assisting bookkeepers with basic accounting software issues.
• Able to support the research and implementation of new policies and procedures across all departments, serving as the Financial Manager's "right hand" in these initiatives.