We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Accountant to manage and oversee our financial operations. The ideal candidate will be responsible for preparing financial reports, managing budgets, performing audits, and ensuring compliance with financial regulations. This role requires strong analytical skills, a solid understanding of accounting principles, and the ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team.
What you’ll do:
- Assist the Lodge Bookkeepers and lodge administrators
- Assist lodge managers/ Director with queries
- Prepare and review South African lodge balance sheet reconciliations process monthly journals
- Prepare monthly management accounts for regional business units
- Prepare assist with quarterly forecasts, annual budgets and high level forecasts
- Assist with year-end audit queries
- Assist in training of staff from various backgrounds and skill levels
- Capex tracking and related functions.
- Liaison with professional legal advisors, tax authorities etc.
- Able to travel if necessary.
- Ad hoc tasks as required.
- Ensuring month end processes for a number of lodges are completed within the required timelines
- Process monthly journals related to South African lodges
- Ensuring the accuracy of data extracted from multiple platforms
- Provide variance analysis and other accounting support to central teams
- Preparing monthly Balance sheet reconciliations
- Assist with planning and co-ordination of the audit and address audit queries
- Maintain Fixed asset register and capital expenditure tracking
- Assist the Lodge Bookkeepers and lodge administrators
- Assist lodge managers/ Director with queries
- Bank reconciliations checks
- Circulating and reviewing monthly management accounts to lodges
- Reviewing the accounts to maintain financial integrity and standardisation across the region
- Ad hoc tasks as required
Your expertise:
- 2 years’ experience
- Proficient with MS Office Packages (Excel)
- Advanced excel experience required (etc. pivot table, vlookups)
- Experience with Panstrat and / or Microsoft Access beneficial
- Knowledge of Pastel advantages
- Analysis Problem Solving
- Planning and Organisation
- Having and using knowledge of systems, situations, procedures and cultures inside the organization to identify potential organizational problems and opportunities; perceiving the impact and the implications of decisions on other components of the organization. Establishing a course of action for self and/ or others to accomplish a specific goal; planning proper assignments of personal and appropriate allocation of resources.
Qualifications required:
Personal characteristics:
- Diligent self-starter, with a high level of attention to detail
- Results-focused, but willing to work with diverse personalities in a challenging environment
- Generate and maintain a positive momentum and high levels of productivity.
- Maintain social, ethical, organisational and professional norms.
- Keen willingness for ongoing personal development.
- Excellent communicator;
- Team player who works productively with wide range of people
Other information applicable to the opportunity:
- Permanent Position
- Location: Sandton, Johannesburg (Onsite)