Group Financial Accountant (Milnerton/Century City) at Ecowize Group

Description

• Ecowize is seeking an experienced Group Financial Accountant to join the Finance Team in Cape Town. The purpose of the role is to provide financial control support to the Group as well as individual business units. 
• The Group Financial Accountant will work closely with the FM - Shared Services to ensure effective and efficient financial controls, balance sheet management and strong compliance in the Group.
• The successful incumbent will also work closely with Financial Managers of individual business units to ensure compliance with internal control framework as well as external statutory requirements. 
• Part of the purpose is to find the right mix of strong controls and high efficiencies in process.  Good management of Sage 300 ERP and the GL structure is essential.  Management of the month end process including reporting through the month, publishing month end timetables, closing the month (journals etc), company consolidation and issuing reports. 
• Managing reporting and analysis including standard reporting (eg: management accounts and revenue reports) and ad-hoc.  Accuracy of reporting is critical. Management all aspects of the budget process from template design to budget uploads. 
• All compliance and secretarial functions including tax, audit, VAT, ETI’s, statutory returns and insurance. 
• Financial management of group and head office costs as well as EHPS (Ecowize High performance Systems) and BBBEE reporting.  Building trust and relationships with Operations will be key to getting the job done.

High-level Job Objectives

• Stakeholder focus on building relationships with key business partners.
• Quality focus to ensure strong and effective financial controls to ensure safeguarding of assets and accurate reporting. Efficient GL account and Balance Sheet Management.
• People focus, management of all financial processes including month end, forecasting and budget.  Provide ad-hoc reporting. Responsible for Group, Head Office, EHPS and BBBEE financial reporting.
• Compliance focus, responsible for all statutory, compliance, BBBEE reporting and treasury functions.
• Innovation Focus, business process innovation – financial, operational, systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Understanding the business
• Building relationships
• Provide sound financial and clear advice. Communicate findings to the team.
• Continuously review GL structure to ensure efficient and robust balance sheet structure
• Strong Balance Sheet management
• Management of month end, forecasting, ad-hoc reporting and budget process
• Financial management – Group and Head Office
• Responsible for financial management and reporting for all group and related companies
• Responsible for all statutory, compliance, insurance and BBBEE management and reporting
• Manage the Audit Process including relationship with Auditors
• Continuously work on improvements in financial and operations business process
• Review all business systems (finance and operations) for innovation and improvement
• Focus on digitizing functions where possible

Requirements

• Honours Degree in Accounting
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in auditing and accounting controls

Proven experience in:

• Project Management
• HR-related functions
• Total Quality Management (TQM) systems
• Staff management and task delegation
• Operations and service delivery
• Sound knowledge of the Services or Cleaning industry
• Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Experience working with Accpac (Sage 300)

The successful incumbent must have the following skillset:

• Strong leadership abilities
• Excellent communication skills
• Effective problem-solving capability
• Ability to multitask and manage priorities
• High level of attention to detail