Job Description

Closing Date: 2025-06-18
Job Type: Permanent
Job Level: Management
Experience: Between 3 - 5 Years
EE/AA: No
Summary
An opportunity exists for a Financial Accountant to join our dynamic team at our Group Head office in Camps Bay.
Scope of the position:
Responsible for the financial control / accounting support (typically in the form of data capturing & processing, cost control and reconciliations) to the assigned business / financial manager. Assume the primary day-to-day processing and control responsibilities of financial-related activities within the business unit. Ensures financial practices and information are in line with company policy.
Description
Key accountabilities

• Preparation of Monthly Management accounts and Financial Reporting
• Supplier invoices
• Supplier reconciliations
• Perform monthly supplier reconciliations on all suppliers in age analysis
• Ensure all reconciling items are sorted out within one month
• Follow up with managers and suppliers to sort out reconciling items
• Ensure all suppliers are reconciled before preparing payment
• Payments to suppliers
• All suppliers to be added as beneficiary on Nedbank site
• Create payment requisitions and attached invoices, recon and supplier ledger batch
• Load payments into bank and send to authorised managers to check and release (weekly and monthly payments)
• Once paid, all invoices to be filed correctly
• Remittance advices to be emailed to supplier to ensure accurate allocations
• Ensure aging on supplier age analysis is correct after cash book has been updated
• Ensure suppliers are not double paid and follow up with any debit balances if needed
• Cash Control and Banking
• Payroll
• Stock
• Spot checks on stock counted, to ensure accuracy of count
• Ensure stock receiving system and procedures are followed
• Assist with monthly stock take
• Accounts receivable
• Preparing ad-hoc customer invoices and ensuring the monthly billing cycle is done accurately and timeously
• Assist with the follow-up relating to outstanding debtors as part of the monthly review process
• Fixed Assets
• Assist with performing monthly spot checks on operational asset register list
• Ensure the integrity and maintenance of the Fixed Asset Register
• Statutory requirements
• Sound knowledge of VAT processing and the implications thereof
• Ensure all invoices have VAT numbers if registered
• Assist with reconciling VAT payable / receivable on a monthly basis
• Controls
• Ensure all ordering processes are followed as per the company financial manual
• Audit, control and process all supplier invoices as per financial manual
• payment controls to be adhered to as per financial manual
• External Audit

Minimum Requirements
Minimum requirements:

• 2 years Financial Accountant experience
• SAGE Evolution
• Opera knowledge (advantage)
• Intermediate / advanced MS office knowledge
• Nedbank Bank processing (advantageous)

Due to the high volumes of applications received, only candidates that meet the minimum requirements will be contacted.
If you have not heard back from us in 2 weeks, please consider your application as unsuccessful