Job Description

Job Summary Minimum Job Requirements:

• Degree in Accounting essential. Post Graduate qualification, an added advantage.
• Minimum 5 years' corporate finance experience with sound commercial exposure.
• Experience with privately owned and medium-sized businesses.
• Excellent accounting knowledge and experience up to annual financial statements.
• Good knowledge of statutory and tax regulations.
• Good knowledge of Accounting and ERP software systems.
• Strong working knowledge of Excel and financial modelling.
• Good understanding of IT and how this facilities financial reporting.
• Experience with Africa, Syspro and ZAP BI are added advantages.

Key Performance Areas:
Reporting to the Financial Director:

• Supervise competent staff, ensuring functions are performed effectively and within deadlines.
• Prepare and collate budgets and forecasts for the group and business channels.
• Prepare the group's yearly rolling cashflow budget and forecasts.
• Manage debtors and the age analysis ensuring that invoices, rebates, fees and payments are processed, complete, accurate and current.
• Address and resolve legacy debtor and online accounts and overdue debtors.
• Manage creditors ensuring documentation, payment requirements and settlement discounts are adhered to, are complete and accurate.
• Review, reconcile and process credit cards on a monthly basis.
• Prepare and process receipts, payments and journals for the foreign subsidiaries.
• Perform bank and cashbook reconciliations for the foreign subsidiaries.
• Manage the cashflow and repatriations of funds from the foreign subsidiaries.
• Liaise with banks and obtain foreign exchange rates for the payment of foreign invoices and apply conversions for payments and/or financial reporting.
• File payroll, taxation and statutory returns for foreign subsidiaries ensuring payments are made by deadline dates.
• Perform monthly reviews of general ledger accounts for foreign subsidiaries and head office ensuring they are complete, accurate and current.
• Perform monthly reconciliations of balance sheet accounts for foreign subsidiaries and head office ensuring they are complete, accurate and current.
• Prepare monthly management accounts and variance reporting for subsidiaries.
• Perform analytic reviews and investigate variances, provide solutions and/or recommendations to reduce costs and maximise trading margins and profits.
• Attend to the year-end audit requirements and schedules for the foreign subsidiaries and head office.
• Liaise with Auditors and Tax Consultants, provide data, and address queries.
• Ensure annual financial statements and tax returns for the subsidiaries are completed, signed and submitted by deadline dates.
• Attend to the deregistration of relevant non trading entities.
• Comply with all statutory and or regulatory requirements.
• Review internal controls and processes for operational areas and document or update standard operating procedures (SOP) and policies.
• Ensure compliance with SOP and all financial policies and procedures.
• Maintain and or implement an accurate filing system for all financial records and ensure archived data is available and accessible.

Skills and Competencies:

• Mature.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to multitask and handle pressure.
• Be flexible and adapt to changing environments.
• Diligent with good values and work ethics.
• A strong analytic mind with skills to interpret data, solve problems and find solutions.
• Highly energetic and positive.
• Be proactive with a "can do attitude".
• Deadline driven.

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