Accountant

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Drive financial excellence and make a meaningful impact across the business. As an Accountant, you'll play a key role in ensuring the accuracy and integrity of financial information, providing valuable insights that support strategic decision-making. From analysing financial data and preparing financial reports to maintaining the general ledger and managing business transactions, you'll help keep our financial operations running smoothly. You'll prepare financial statements, including balance sheets and profit and loss reports, while interpreting financial performance and forecasting future trends. You'll also review contracts, orders and payment documentation, strengthen financial controls, support the implementation and enhancement of accounting systems, and identify opportunities to improve financial processes. Working closely with stakeholders across the business, you'll contribute to sound financial governance, compliance, and operational efficiency, while potentially leading and mentoring team members to achieve shared success.

Minimum Requirements

• Computer literacy (Advanced).
• Experience in working with senior management.
• Business English: Fluent.
• Travel off-site/overnight stay.

Duties and Responsibilities

Administer inventory, stock, crates, pallets and fuel:

• Ensure stock is managed correctly and balanced between system and balance sheet accounts.
• Ensure stock is correctly reflected in GL e.g. no credit stock values in GL and prices used during month was correct.
• Perform stock reconciliations monthly and follow up where necessary.

Control and reconcile Driver accounts and cash:

• Reconcile General Ledger in respect of Drivers accounts.
• Reconcile all cash that flows through at branch i.e. deposit slip, cash receipts & bank statement.
• Follow up on all EFT's owed by customers indicated as COD.
• Control and manage RD cheques from customers, through a RD cheque register, and the collection of the RD cheque outstanding for customer payments.
• Follow up on Driver journals done at branch with Branch Admin Manager/Controller.

Control payments - Stock and Commodities:

• Ensure every vendor invoice has a printed Clover PO number.
• Marry all inventory PO's with the correct stock GRN's e.g. Red Bull, Clover Waters, Snaxworks etc.
• Ensure that all invoices are accompanied by a corresponding authorised PO according to signatory Clover policy.
• Manage branch capex expenditures with corresponding PO's and capex applications.

Assist with budgets and year end:

• Assist with internal and external audit requirements.
• Ensure that Clover policies are adhere to.
• Complete year end schedules.
• Analyse variances from budget and report.

Perform debtors and administrative tasks:

• Perform debtor control account reconciliations and report deviations.
• Ensure that adhoc debtors invoicing takes place and are followed up regularly to ensure payment.
• Assist branch management with projects.
• Complete capex applications.
• Ensure that monthly fixed costs are correct .
• Assist with adhoc information and reports .