Financial Accountant (Takealot Delivery Team) at takealot.com

Your responsibilities will include:

• Serve as a finance business partner to the Takealot delivery team and Takealot insurance team
• Supports the co-ordination and preparation of Takealot Logistics budgets and financial forecasts and actual vs budget cost tracking
• Recommendation and Implementation of financial processes, improvement measures and Internal Control procedures.
• Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls
• Continuous improvement of TDT and insurance reporting, automation of reporting and building robust financial models and processes that aid decision making
• Analyse and identify data sets required to support model tracking
• Engage with different business stakeholders on project initiatives, costs analysis etc.
• TDT month end reporting. Prepare monthly management accounts and cost centre reports (Actual vs. Budget) and distribute to stakeholders. Reporting on variances, performance indicators, trends and financial ratios
• Preparing & reviewing of monthly B/S recons
• Monitor, prepare and report on capital expenditure (Actual vs Budget, Capex Utilisation and Return on Investment) per project
• Monitor all delivery costs and volumes, investigate variances
• TDT expense and cost centre allocation and purchase order approval management and tracking
• Maintaining insurance register
• Managing junior staff

Attributes required:

• Good communication skills, interpersonal skills
• Work under pressure
• Accuracy and attention to detail 
• Deadline driven
• Problem solving skills

Qualifications and Experience:

• B.Com (Hons) / B. Com (Logistics) / B. Com (Finance) 
•  CA(SA) / CIMA beneficial
• 3-5 Years’ Experience in a similar role / environment (ideally within Supply chain)
• Advanced Excel and Google Sheet skills

The Environment:

• Takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of takealot.com being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
• We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve
• We are short on ego and high on output
• We are doers and not only thinkers, it’s all in the execution after all
• We love what we do and what we are creating