South Africa's leading health and wellness retailer. We believe in pure, natural goodness - plain and simple. We aim to partner with you on your unique wellness journey while honouring people and the planet in all that we do.
ROLE REQUIREMENTS:
Areas of responsibility:
- In respect of financial process and controls:
- Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls.
- Ensure that the company’s financial systems are robust, compliant and support current activities as well as future growth ambitions.
- Constantly investigate process improvement.
- Oversight of all transactional activities (accounts payable and accounts receivable).
- Maintain financial records and GL accounts.
- Monthly journal entry processing.
- Drive month-end and year-end close procedures.
- Deliver a clean and accurate trail balance at month end for review by senior staff.
- Oversight of feasibilities for new stores and store closures.
- Developing reports and analytical insights to inform the business and to drive business improvement opportunities.
- Identification of opportunities for working capital improvements.
- Preparation of accurate monthly management accounts within committed reporting timetable.
- Reporting on variances on actuals vs budget income and expenditure.
- Assist in the preparation of board packs.
- Drive the annual budgeting process, ensuring on-time and accurate delivery in accordance with set timelines.
- Responsibility for the management of property leases for the business.
- Monitoring and maintenance of fixed asset register.
- Review large overdue accounts and work on/propose plans to drive collections.
- Drive visibility of inventory, accounts payable and cash collections performance.
- Prepare cash flow forecasts and cash flow maintenance, ensuring that the company has sufficient cash available to meet its commitments.
- Loading of payment on to bank.
- Engage in ongoing cost reduction analysis in all areas of the company.
- Provide monthly analysis of variable and fixed expenses and provide recommendations to management to improve profitability.
- Accurate and on-time statutory return submissions.
- Ensure that regulatory requirements of all statutory bodies are met in respect of the year-end audit.
- Liaise with external auditors.
- Coordinate the audit process.
- Oversee the preparation of audit files and provide assistance where required.
- Ensure delivery of unqualified annual financial statements within committed timelines.
- Management of the day-to-day finance function and finance team.
- Ensuring that the finance team is made up of the right calibre of people to deliver on the finance function’s strategic priorities.
- Review of all underlying team work including debtors cycle/creditors cycle/bank etc.
- Keeping abreast of latest SARS/IFRS developments.
- Review and sign off of monthly payroll.
- Assist the senior financial management with ad hoc tasks/projects as and when required.
- Maintain relationships with the company’s bankers and financiers.
- Legal related issues, trademark registrations and renewals and company secretarial matters.
- Tax compliance (VAT and income tax returns) as well as identifying tax planning opportunities.
- Responsible for the IR function within the business.
JOB SPECIFICATIONS:
- 5 years previous financial management experience.
- Fully qualified CA(SA) or equivalent – min requirement is B.Com + completed articles.
- Previous experience in managing a finance team.
- Strong working knowledge of MS Office Suite, specifically MS Excel.
- Medium or large scale recognised ERP experience (Sage, SAP, NetSuite).
- Payroll administration.
- SARS reporting.
- Management reporting.
ATTRIBUTES:
- Strong technical ability, accounting knowledge through to AFS.
- Strong leadership skills.
- Strong communication and presentation skills – both written and verbal.
- Deep understanding of business principles and practices.
- Integrity and honesty.
- Ability to take ownership and work responsibility.
- Mature, trustworthy and ethical.
- Ability to work well in a team environment.
- Good time management skills.
- An enquiring and curious mindset with an attitude of continual improvement and a desire to add value.
- The ability to understand and evaluate detail but equally being able to actively participate in strategic discussions.
- Energetic, hands-on, high-quality standards and a result-oriented individual.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: Up to R50000.00 per month.
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