Senior Financial Accountant (6 Months) at Secondments

Minimum Requirements

Preferred Minimum Education and Experience

• CA (SA) or ACCA
• Minimum 5 years post articles experience
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in Financial Accounting and Reporting
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in Financial Services
• Highly proficient in accounting for financial instruments

Duties and Responsibilities

• Month-end focus - General Ledger maintenance (Overall responsibility for data accuracy and integrity by performing general ledger reconciliations and income statement analysis)
• Assigns responsibilities to relevant assistants, including the creation of reconciliations.
• Manage the month-end focus. (Including investments, write-offs, insolvencies, fruitless and wasteful and irregular expenditure, impairments, etc.)
• Makes sure that reconciliations are done accurately and timeously, checks them against supporting documentation and ledger balances.
• Review of the audit files for completeness and accuracy
• Ensure that the General Ledger and journal entries are in accordance with defined standards by analysing accounts and correcting misallocations and miscalculations.
• SAP Banking Month-end Run (as and when required)