Job Description

Position summaryIndustry: Financial ServicesJob category: Financial AccountingLocation: Cape TownContract: PermanentEE position: NoIntroductionTo deliver all the required accounting general ledger reconciliations and controls to ensure effective and accurate payments to local suppliers.Job description

• Ensure full reconciliation of General Ledger accounts in accordance with GAAP and WW financial principles
• Ensure fully reconciled and detailed provisions for all accounts within the creditors environment
• Manage all the required systems interventions for administering all payments e.g. pre-lim reports
• Ensure fully reconciled trial balance items, delivered timeously with detail required for management reporting.
• Ensure that sub-ledgers are compliant with the rigors of audit to substantiate values in the balance sheet.
• Ensure proper working of the EFT payment process, including access controls / accuracy / validity of payments
• Prepare timeous management reporting in line with best practice.
• Ensure integrity and control around Master Data Maintenance, including supplier terms, banking details, etc.
• Address any internal issues as they arise.

Ad hoc reporting as requested by management.Minimum requirementsTechnical Skills:

• B. Comm / B.Tech / 3-year Finance Diploma or equivalent
• 3 years management experience in an Accounting environment
• Awareness of GAAP / WW Financial Principles and sound understanding of accounting processes
• Able to apply accounting knowledge in a large IT driven accounting environment and solve problems in a large, complex, integrated system that processes large volumes of financial transactions
• Able to effectively use Excel and Walker financial system

Behavioural Skills:

• Personal Effectiveness
• Passion for the brand and customers
• Thinking strategically and commercially
• Leading Transformation
• Connecting people
• Delivering high performance
• Having a merchant mindset
• Making insightful business decisions
• Driving quality
• Planning and organising