Senior Accountant

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Senior Accountant

Parktown, Johannesburg | Full-Time | Office-Based

Role Overview:

Austell is looking for a detail-driven Senior Accountant to join its Finance Department. This role will support accurate financial reporting, month-end and year-end close, general ledger management, budgeting, supplier payments, inventory accounting, pricing support, compliance, audit readiness, and process improvement.

The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, excellent attention to detail, and the ability to work effectively across departments. You should be confident working with financial data, reconciliations, reporting deadlines, and finance controls in a fast-paced environment.

Key duties include:

· Preparing monthly management accounts, including income statements, balance sheets, cash flow statements, and supporting schedules

· Analysing financial performance against budgets, forecasts, and prior periods

· Coordinating month-end and year-end close processes, including journals, accruals, provisions, and reconciliations

· Maintaining the general ledger and supporting ledgers, including creditors, debtors, inventory, fixed assets, and intercompany accounts

· Assisting with budgets, forecasts, and cash flow projections

· Preparing and processing local and foreign supplier payment batches

· Reconciling supplier invoices, stock receipts, purchase orders, and warehouse records

· Supporting inventory accounting, landed cost calculations, and stock variance investigations.

· Maintaining approved product pricing, SEP updates, tender prices, customer price lists, and related system changes

· Supporting statutory, internal, external, and B-BBEE audits

· Maintaining documentation for foreign payments, imports, and exchange-control compliance

· Supporting ERP implementation, system improvements, reporting enhancements, and finance process improvements

Minimum requirements:

· Bachelor of Accounting with Honours

· CA with 2–3 years post-articles experience, or CIMA with 2–3 years’ experience, or BCom Honours with 3–5 years’ experience

· Advanced Excel skills

· Good knowledge of Microsoft Office and Pastel or a similar accounting system

· Strong communication, planning, time management, and problem-solving skills

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