Financial Accountant
The Focus Group
- R2,100 - R2,500 per month
- Permanent Intermediate position
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East London
- Posted 02 Jun 2025 by The Focus Group
- Expires in 32 days
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Job 2612528
About the position
We are looking for an experienced Financial Accountant to monitor all financial data and prepare accurate financial statement for our Group of Companies. Financial Accountant responsibilities include budgeting, reporting, and performing internal audits.
Responsibilities will include but not limited to keeping our financial records organised, including tracking accounts payable and receivable, and ensuring that each account is reconciled correctly. This is an opportunity to be part of our growing real estate office and see tangible results from your work on a daily basis.
The successful candidate must be willing to travel between branches from time to time.
Responsibilities
- Preparing underlying working papers for external audit purposes.
- Budget preparation and analysis.
- Interact with external auditors at the time of conducting of audits.
- Management of financial statements audits and other agreed engagements
- Examine, analyse, and interpret accounting records to prepare financial statements.
- Prepare annual /interim/monthly financial statements/management accounts.
- Organise, prepare, and review bookkeeping transaction.
- Gather and monitor financial data (e.g. sales revenues and liabilities)
- Monitor and report on accounting discrepancies.
- Conduct detailed risk analyses to assess potential investments.
- Analyse financial trends
- Perform month-end and year-end close processes.
Requirements
- Bachelors degree in Accounting, Finance or relevant field
- 6 - 7 years of experience in financial department.
- Budget preparation and analysis
- IFRS statutory reporting experience (essential)
- Extensive CaseWare experience (essential)
- Tax experience (essential)
- Sage ERP (advantageous)
- Additional certification (e.g. CPA)
- Experience with consolidations (advantageous)
Skills
- Excellent math skills with attention to detail
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Analytical / Accurate
- Achievement orientated
- Deadline driven, with a sense of urgency/result orientation.
- Time Management
- Advanced Excel skills
- Ability to work under extreme pressure
- Adapting and responding to change
Desired Skills:
- Accounting
- CaseWare
- IFRS
- MDA Accounting
- Microsoft Excel
- Sage Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
- Tax
The Focus Group
About the agency
THE FOCUS GROUP was formed in 1989 and has offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town. We are a full service Human Resource Consulting Company, encompassing Black Empowerment joint venture partner Focus Kamoso, and offering a comprehensive range of integrated recruitment, assessment, employee relations, training and development, HR, employee benefit and payroll management services to a wide range of South African, African and international business organisations.
Our commitment is to enter into a partnership with you, the Client, which adds value to your business and profit to your bottom line, by tailoring solutions that assist you to
• Source, assess and select the best possible human resources.
• Design and implement competency based training programmes, which ensure that your employees are capable of delivering the service excellence that your clients demand, and the competitive edge which you seek to maintain.
• Create a business environment in which you manage change to your advantage and an organisational climate that allows your team to perform to its maximum potential.
• Design employee benefit and remuneration structures which ensure that your people take ownership of your business and which protect you against losing your most valuable resource to your competition.
• Implement an employee relations framework that promotes workplace harmony and minimises the occurrence of disruptive legal disputes.
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