About the position
Are you a sharp, motivated finance professional looking to make an impact in a fast-growing, purpose-driven company? Our client is looking for a Financial Accountant to join their team. This is your opportunity to contribute to a business with operations across multiple geographies while developing your career in a fast-paced and ambitious environment.
Reporting to the Senior Financial Accountant, this role is central to ensuring accurate financial reporting, meeting tax and statutory requirements, and playing a key role in various finance improvement initiative
Duties and Responsibilities
- Oversee and review the bank reconciliations prepared by the bookkeepers.
- Ensure that all transactions processed in the general ledger for entities under your remit are valid, accurate and complete.
- Ensure that month-end financial packs including balance sheet reconciliations are prepared for the review of the Senior Financial Accountant within the stipulated deadlines.
- Preparation of accurate journals and monthly reconciliations with third party pay-in and pay-out partners.
- Assist the Group Tax team with the preparation of timely and accurate tax submissions for the entities under your remit.
- Assistance in the delivery of the year-end audit including drafting the statutory financial statements for review by the Senior Financial Accountant and Group Reporting Manager.
- Preparation of various other statutory or regulatory returns for the entities under your remit.
- Involvement in various finance improvement projects, including system implementations, month end process efficiencies, new market expansion and business maturity workstreams.
- Internal liaison with other departments to assist in solving commercials issues as they arise.
Key requirements
- Accounting degree (essential)
- Studying towards CA (SA), CIMA or SAIPA qualification (preferable)
- 2-3 years’ experience in a financial environment or completed articles (essential)
- Experience of multi-national Groups structures, preferably across the African continent and/or the UK (preferable)
- Finance business systems experience across ERP platforms, preferably Netsuite
- Experience in preparing VAT and Corporate tax returns which will be delivered in conjunction with the internal Tax function (preferable)
- Experience working in financial services or highly regulated industries beneficial (preferable)
- Experience working in high growth/fast-moving organisations (preferable)
- Advanced time management and organisational skills (essential)
- Advanced MS Office skills (essential)
Additional skills
- Passionate and enjoys working in a fast-paced, informal but extremely ambitious company.
- Hands-on self-starter
- Ability to work under pressure, commercial acumen, and capable of linking the role to shareholder value creation / profitability.
- Keen to be part of a multi-cultural organisation that is committed to excellence, inclusion, diversity, community development and the environment.
- Ability to look for efficiencies and improvements in any process rather than just accept the status quo.
Desired Skills:
- Bank Reconciliations
- Financial Accounting
- General Ledger
- Journal Entry
- Reconciliation
- Stakeholder Management
- Statutory Reporting
