Financial Accountant - Midrand at Servest SA

Minimum Requirements

• Matric
• Preferably a tertiary qualification (B.Com Degree or Accounting Diploma)
• Preferably 5 years’ experience in a similar role
• Clear criminal record;
• Effective time management;

Competencies

• Sound financial technical knowledge
• Analytical skills, accuracy and attention to detail
• Effective communication skills
• Identify solutions to problems, opportunities or issues raised.
• Maintain excellent working relationships with internal and external suppliers and stakeholders
• Personal effectiveness – Demonstrate sound organizational and administrative skills and high professional standards. Willingness to learn and be self-motivated.
• Job management – takes responsibility, is productive and completes work effectively and in a timely manner.
• Technical – continuously develops knowledge and shares skills.
• Able to handle pressure well

Duties & Responsibilities

• Reporting on variance analysis between budgeted and actual monthly and YTD figures.
• Processing of daily and weekly Cash flow statements and compilation of monthly management forecast
• Prepare and uploading of monthly recurring and adhoc journals onto Accpac.
• Prepare of accruals schedules and journalize
• Reviewing and approving debtors and creditors reconciliations.
• Approving and Posting of accounts receivable invoices and accounts payables invoices on Sage Accounting systems.
• Approving of Accounts payables monthly reconciliations
• Maintaining effective financial controls and reporting structures
• Overseeing and managing the daily functioning of the finance team – Debtors team,
• Creditors team, Branch Administrator and Branch Managers.
• Processing of Capex capital expenditure documents to be submitted for Board approval and liaise with relevant bank for contract and financing.
• Capturing of Fixed Assets, running of monthly depreciations, disposal, scrapping and writing off assets on the systems and maintenance of monthly reconciled Fixed Assets Register
• Balance Sheet reconciliation, Processing of month-end journals, Month-end stock processing, Inventory Valuation, and Reconciled to trial balance.
• Dealing with internal and external auditors
• Overall reconciliation of the GL accounts to ensure that all costs and revenues have been accounted for as per the budgeted figures, to the relevant branch.
• Intercompany reconciliation and consolidations, good knowledge of IFRS
• Assist in compilation and processing of yearly budget.
• Liaise with interdivisional teams and management of departmental charges across from Head office and other division with the group
• Reviewing and Approving of pro-card accounts utilized as Petty cash from different branches in SA
• Uploading and 1st Releaser of payments on the bank
• Reconciliations of monthly Statutory payments, VAT201
• Prepare a monthly VAT return and perform balance reconciliation and also ensure payment is made by the due date to group.
• Compilation of monthly BEE status reports
• Compliance to statutory and IFRS requirements