takealot.com , a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Financial Accountant (TDT) to join our team in Cape Town. We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people to join us. We offer a market related package and a great work environment with a promise that you won’t be bored, as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.
This role reports to the Financial Manager - Logistics.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Serve as a finance business partner to the Takealot delivery team and Takealot insurance team
- Support the co-ordination and preparation of Takealot Logistics budgets and financial forecasts and actual vs budget cost tracking
- Recommendation and implementation of financial processes, improvement measures, and internal control procedures.
- Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls
- Continuous improvement of TDT and insurance reporting, automation of reporting, and building robust financial models and processes that aid decision making
- Analyse and identify data sets required to support model tracking
- Engage with different business stakeholders on project initiatives, cost analysis, etc.
- TDT month-end reporting. Prepare monthly management accounts and cost centre reports (Actual vs. Budget) and distribute to stakeholders. Reporting on variances, performance indicators, trends, and financial ratios
- Preparing & reviewing of monthly B/S reconciliations
- Monitor, prepare and report on capital expenditure (Actual vs Budget, Capex Utilisation, and Return on Investment) per project
- Monitor all delivery costs and volumes, investigate variances
- TDT expense and cost centre allocation and purchase order approval management and tracking
- Maintaining insurance register
- Managing junior staff
Attributes required:
- Good communication skills, interpersonal skills
- Ability to work under pressure
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Deadline driven
- Problem-solving skills
Qualifications and Experience:
- B.Com (Hons) / B.Com (Logistics) / B.Com (Finance)
- CA(SA) / CIMA beneficial
- 3-5 Years’ Experience in a similar role/environment (ideally within Supply chain)
- Advanced Excel and Google Sheet skills
We seek to employ an Extraordinary Mind who:
- is respectful but forthright
- is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute
- is analytical, able to use data to make decisions
- is competitive, self-directed and strives to be the BEST
- is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience
- is entrepreneurial, thrives under change and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster
- is business SMART, able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input
- is curious and challenges the status quo
- is innovative and enjoys iteration
- is collaborative
- will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for takealot.com
- thinks like an owner of the business
- is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARD WORKING
If you meet the above criteria and are an Extraordinary Mind , come and join us!
Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.
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