Financial Accountant

To support project and group operations across engineering, mining, and construction projects. This role focuses on accurate financial processing, reporting, job/project cost control, budgeting support, and compliance administration—ensuring financial information is timely, complete, and decision-useful for management and executives, variance analysis, reconciliations, and invoicing processes to enable informed management decisions and maintain healthy cash flow.

Financial Reporting (Project & Group)

· Ensure timely preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting schedules

· Compile management accounts, board packs, and executive dashboards

· Maintain accurate project profitability reporting (costs, billing, margins)

Project & Operational Finance Support

· Support project-level financial control, including:

-Cost tracking and coding

-Billing cycles and reconciliation support

-Margin analysis support

-Support cash flow forecasting and working capital reporting (e.g., updates to rolling cash forecasts

Budgeting, Forecasting & Costing

· Support budgeting and forecasting cycles across the group entities

· Assist with scenario modelling for project performance and commercial decisions

· Contribute to job costing processes using ERP outputs and management reporting tools

Systems, Compliance & Governance Support

· Maintain and support the ERP environment for job costing/ reporting (e.g. Sage Evolution or equivalent)

· Support compliance activities in line with:

-IFRS

-Companies Act

-SARS requirements (VAT, PAYE, Income Tax)

· Support internal control processes (e.g. DOA compliance, risk register inputs, reconciliations)

· Develop, implement and maintain group financial policies and procedures for project accounting, reporting, approvals, and documentation

Stakeholder & Audit Support

· Support coordination of annual audits and document requests

· Assist with schedules and reconciliations required for financial statements and tax compliance

· Support external stakeholders where required

Minimum Requirements

· BCom Accounting/Finance Degree (or equivalent)

· SAICA articles completed or CIMA part-qualified (or equivalent) or Postgraduate Diploma in Project Finance or Tax

· 3–5 years finance experience in construction/EPCM/mining services/industrial infrastructure (project-driven environment)

· Experience with project accounting / job costing, budgets, and management reporting

· Demonstrated experience in tax compliance with a proven track record of successfully engaging and liaising with SARS to resolve complex compliance and audit issues.

· Proven experience in managing external accounting service providers to ensure the accurate, timely, and complete fulfilment of all corporate tax and statutory compliance obligations.

· Exposure to ERP systems used for project costing (e.g. Sage Evolution/ Pastel or similar)

· Experience in producing accurate reconciliations and supporting audit/ tax schedules

Technical Skills

· Strong Excel skills (management reporting, modelling basics)

· Understanding of IFRS principles in a project/ infrastructure environment

· Basic-to-intermediate exposure to Power BI (preferred) for dashboards/ reporting

Behavioural Competencies

· Analytical, detail-oriented, accuracy-driven

· Ethical and accountable

· Able to work across multidisciplinary teams and meet deadlines

Pay: R500 000,00 - R768 158,97 per year

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Secunda, Mpumalanga