Financial Accountant

Position available for a Financial Accountant based in Vanderbijlpark.

Relevant qualifications and experience in a related discipline:

• BCom Financial degree or studying towards.
• At least 5 years engineering and/or manufacturing industry.
• Must have knowledge and know how to comply with relevant business legislation.
• Must have a sound knowledge of accounting principles and standards.
• ERP experience required.
• Must know SARS E-filing and the processes around it.
• Advanced Microsoft office.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Review recording of financial transactions per project, department, or company.
• Assist in preparing financial statements for internal and external use.
• Assist in reconciling spending actual vs budget per project/cost centre.
• Recommend methods and strategies for cutting cost.
• Maintain records and support auditing efforts.
• Submit accurate monthly bank reconciliations for approval.
• Review and processing of journals to the general ledger.
• Ensure all journals are authorized before processing.
• Ensure that the relevant balance sheet account reconciliations are completed monthly and approve once done.
• Ensure that the balance sheet account reconciliations are finalised on debtors and creditors and approve once done.
• Responsible for debtors and creditor’s function.
• Assist with cash-flow monitoring and provide relevant financial information to management to support cash management and planning.
• Provide on the job training to all subordinates.
• Submit reports to the Financial Manager for development of more informative reporting ways to assist management in their decision making
• Submit reports to the financial manager to enable him/her to compile budgets.
• Submit info to the financial manager to enable her/him to analyse and improve the current costing processes.
• AD HOC Duties assigned from time to time.

Skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving experience.
• Proactive, self-starter with initiative.
• Good communication, planning and time management skills.
• Deadline driven.
• Ability to multi- task and handle pressure.
• Confidentiality, Integrity and Trustworthiness

Pay: R28 000,00 - R35 000,00 per year

Work Location: In person