Manager: RTR & Finance - Kempton Park at DHL

Job Purpose: 

• Balance Sheet Reconciliations preparation and review.
• Bank reconciliations review
• Reviewing expense claims, credit cards and petty cash.
• Preparation and processing of journals
• Reviewing journals
• Review of fixed assets (additions, disposals and transfers)
• Review of control accounts
• Staff development and succession planning
• Working with other departments in regard to financial transactions throughout the company
• Handling daily duties within the department
• Monitoring and balancing accounting reports
• Assisting auditors
• Providing all information for AFS to be prepared
• Preparing and submitting all taxes
• Maintaining a clear audit trail
• Coordination between Accenture and business.
• Preparing head office budget for South Africa
• Approving head office cost

Key areas of responsibility include:

• Training of Accenture staff
• Review of accountant reconciliations and ensuring that all reconciling items are followed up timeously
• Review of accountants work and assistance with accounting queries
• Preparation of reconciliations timeously as required by company set deadlines
• Ensuring the accuracy of journal entries being processed
• Ensuring that control accounts are cleared promptly and differences investigated regularly
• Supervising staff and assisting with accounting queries of a more complex nature
• Ensuring expense claims paid are valid, accurate and reasonable, and allocated to the correct locations and employee.
• Petty cash claims submitted are valid, accurate and reasonable
• Control accounts are cleared on time and no aged items
• Fixed asset movements are authorised
• All expenditure on credit cards is reasonable and valid and is posted to the right locations
• South Africa head office function budget are in with prepared budget and reason for differences are highlighted
• Training of junior staff
• Feedback to queries given on time

Qualifications:

• Matric - Essential
• Educated to degree level or equivalent (B Com Accounting) - Essential
• Completed Articles CA/SA – Desirable

Skills/Competencies/Experience:

• Commercially astute
• Good communication skills
• Proactive
• Team Player
• Strict on procedure
• High Drive to deliver strict deadlines
• Experience in similar role – 2 to 3 years
• Industry Knowledge