ACCOUNTANT (8 MONTHS CONTRACT)

About the position

• Purpose
  The purpose of this Scope of Work is to seek for the services of a legally accredited Labour Broker / recruitment agency to provide one (1) Fixed Assets Accountant on a (8) eight months (as and when required) contract at the the company in Richards Bay.
• Service provider requirements
  The Service Provider to provide the Fixed Assets Accountant should be an accredited Labour Broker accredited to supply labour broking services.
• Minimum Requirements for Position:
• The candidate must have matric with ACCOUNTING as major subject,
• B Com (Finance/Accounting Degree) or National Diploma in Finance/Accounting,
• Minimum of three (3) years in Fixed Assets position or Minimum of 1 - 2 years' experience with ability to demonstrate relevant knowledge of the TPT asset environment.
• Position Purpose:
• Responsible for the management of asset accounting at a terminal level.
• To ensure that PPE transactions processed are valid, accurate and complete, which results in the Fixed Assets and Capital Work in Progress Accounts being an accurate representation of the value of the Terminals asset base.
• Responsible for the management and planning of activities related to asset accounting as well as process monitoring and improvements.
• Position Outputs:

Reporting

• Compile the monthly asset reports for the allocated terminals.
• Review status of IFRS 5 related assets for appropriateness and ensure assets are recorded as held for sale when the criteria are met;
• Responsible for the asset and CWIP account reconciliations Including related supporting schedules.
• Management of WIP capital projects portfolios, ensuring timely capitalisations;
• Provide monthly progress reports on capital projects to the Finance Manager as well as the Asset Specialist at HQ;
• Actively manage the accounting for assets in terms of compliance with IFRS including consideration of impairment, change in useful life, residual value and disclosure requirements.
• Liaise with Internal Audit for asset related audit steps (for transactions performed at the terminal);

Transactions

• Accountability for validity, accuracy and completeness of all transactions relating to capex, capitalisation, transfers, disposals and impairments;
• Determine the correct categorisation of assets at acquisition;
• Responsible for the accuracy of the monthly depreciation run.
• Identify the need for an impairment of an asset based on the conditions per the accounting standards including the preparation of the relevant paperwork for approval;
• Identifying and recommend assets for disposal. Manage the asset withdrawal process.
• Coordinate tagging of assets capitalised (with the SAP generated asset number or a systematic number used by the terminal)
• Preparation and management of the asset verification plan for the terminal.
• Liaise with Terminal Operations and Finance as well as HQ Business Case Writers to provide information during the preparation of business cases;
• Provide information for the preparation of budgets - cash flows and forecasting depreciation/depreciation simulations;
• Ensure that capital budgets and cash flows are aligned to those at HQ;
• Transactions are in compliance with policy and legislation;
• Ensure all capital spares are booked into stores and all capital items in stores are recognised on the asset register as capital spares;
• Manage the capitalisation of spares to assets; and Reconcile all costs relating to mega projects with expenditure records of the company Capital Projects and sign off on a monthly basis.

Controls

• Comply with the minimum controls' framework
• Extract information to provide internal and external audit requirements for asset related audit steps;
• Attend the Project Steering Committee meetings and initiate action based on outcome of the meeting (provide a summary to the Asset Specialist and Financial Accountant at the terminal concerned);
• Monitoring of project spend to budget to identify when project budget is close to being exceeded including notification to the terminal CAPIC and HQ Capital Investment Manager for projects requiring an increase in ETC;
• Handing over of assets to the new cost centre owner in the event of a change in individual (cost centre owner); and
• Co-ordinate with the HQ FAS in obtaining the quarterly CC Manager sign off for assets per cost centre.

ADHOC Projects

• Supplying assets information to the Third-Party Valuators
• Attending project meetings and reporting back to the Asset Specialist (HQ) and the Financial Manager;
• Attending terminal CAPIC; and
• Involvement with the Project team carrying out the asset tagging process, including linking the unique tag number to the asset registers.
• Together with the HQ Asset Specialist, create a process to ensure swift disposal.

Desired Skills:

• Commucation

Desired Work Experience:

• 2 to 5 years

Desired Qualification Level:

• Degree