Financial Accountant

About the position

Our client, a leader in their field, is looking for a dynamic Financial Accountant to join their team.

Reporting to the Financial Manager, duties include:

• Being a Finance Business Partner to the delivery and insurance team
• Supporting the co-ordination and preparation of the Logistics department's budgets and financial forecasts and actual vs. budget cost tracking
• Recommending and Implementing financial processes, improvement measures and Internal Control procedures
• Developing and documenting business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls
• Continuous improvement of delivery team and insurance reporting, automating reporting and building robust financial models and processes that aid decision making
• Analysing and identifying data sets required to support model tracking
• Engaging with different business stakeholders on project initiatives, costs analysis etc.
• Month end reporting. Preparing monthly management accounts and cost centre reports (Actual vs. Budget) and distributing to stakeholders. Reporting on variances, performance indicators, trends and financial ratios
• Preparing anf reviewing monthly Balance Sheet reconciliations
• Monitoring, preparing and reporting on capital expenditure (Actual vs. Budget, Capex Utilisation and Return on Investment) per project
• Monitoring all delivery costs and volumes, investigating variances
• Expense and cost centre allocation and purchase order approval management and tracking
• Maintaining insurance register
• Managing junior staff

Requirements:

• CA (SA)
• 3-5 years' experience in a similar role / environment (ideally within Supply chain)
• Advanced Excel and Google Sheet skills

Desired Skills:

• Balance Sheet recons
• Google Sheet
• Advanced Excel
• Budgeting
• Forecasting
• Financial Accounting
• Financial Reporting