Financial Accountant (Vanderbijlpark)
Job Description
Position available for a Financial Accountant based in Vanderbijlpark.
Minimum Requirements / Qualifications
- 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.
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
Key Areas of Responsibility
- 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.