Finance Administrator - Cape Town at Clicks Group

Job description

Primary Functions and Key Performance Indicators

• Update inventory requirements such as Maintenance or creation of new accounts, understanding of inventory batches and how they interface along with performing the interfaces.
• Focus shrinkage, inventory adjustments as an area of risk.
• Risk will be analysed and investigated accordingly.
• Perform weekly / monthly accounting control procedures in order to eradicate paper shrinkage.
• Requires an ongoing understanding of all inventory / shrinkage related financial systems and controls at Head Office and Location Level.
• Determine the theoretical stock per location by performing certain completeness and cut-off procedures on the financial systems.
• Liaise with inventory contact person(s) in brands / locations in order to obtain information from locations.
• Compile accounting journals.
• Ensure that financial documents are processed accurately in the financial ledger in order to capture paper shrink corrections identified in the shrinkage process.
• Determine exceptions and trends in various shrinkage inventory risk areas after implementation of wall-to-wall and perpetual stock takes and communicate these to the brands.

Minimum requirements

Skills and Competencies

• Proven bookkeeping skills.
• Accounting I at tertiary level.
• Proven exposure to financial systems pertaining to inventory.
• At least 2 years retail financial / administration working experience.
• Excel skills: Very high (this is a critical competency).
• SAP reporting skills: Medium.
• JDA reporting skills: Medium.
• Work in team environment.
• Attention to detail.
• Work independently.
• Ability to liaise and communicate effectively with colleagues throughout the business.