Accountant

Position: Accountant
Reports to: Financial Manager

SCOPE OF WORK

Monthly reporting
• Monthly flash reporting
• Preparing monthly flash report
• Monthly management accounts
• Ensuring accuracy and completeness of monthly balance sheet reconciliations within
agreed timelines
• Preparing month end files (also used for Audit purposes).

Accounting duties
• Day to day managing all aspects relating to accounting
• Determine revenue and expenditure
• Determine monthly revenue forecast and perform monthly revenue analysis.
• Create weekly & monthly revenue report to financial manager
• Oversee financial transactions and process invoices promptly
• Perform reconciliation of account receivable and payable
• Report on alignment of costs to revenue
• Work in compliance with company accounting standards and guidelines
• Identify and resolve outstanding balances monthly
• Perform record keeping of all financial operations
• Create and distribute invoices based on contract and reporting data
• Managing bookkeeper
• Review accounting activities to ensure sound business controls, reporting deviations
to the Financial Manager
• General adherence to Company policies and procedures

Debtors
• Weekly follow-up on outstanding Debtors.
• Ensure accurate invoicing resulting in no credit notes
• Frequent follow-up with client to ensure timeous payment
• Debtors statements and account reconciliations
• Debtors age analysis

VAT
• Monthly VAT reconciliations

Stock and fixed assets
• Checking and monitoring quarterly stock/scaffold and fixed asset counts
• Facilitation of stock and asset counts includes cut-offs and delivery controls
• Fixed asset control and procedures

Budget and Forecast
• Assist in budget preparation.

Sundry debtors
• Ensure accuracy and integrity of all jobs in the Data Base
• Weekly review of the databases & associated reports, highlighting problems and
risks to management, as well as ensuring a valid JGC for every job on the database.
• Staff to follow up and resolve issues pertaining to Jobs captured, Purchase Orders,
Scope changes, Errors, Signatures and Service entry stages of various jobs on the
Data Bases.
• Specific focus to be placed on outstanding / overdue matters and informing Ops &
own staff on matters to be resolved

Audit
• Assist in financial audits and implement audit recommendation

People Management and leadership
• Coaching, development, mentoring and training of the team or junior team members
• Creating high performance teams, by implementing and monitoring individual and
team performance
• Creating a harmonious working environment through conflict management and
discipline, team cohesion.
• Modelling the company values and building the company culture
• Effective delegation of duties and tasks

 

Skills
• Time-management
• Ability to multi-task
• Attention to Detail
• Deadline Driven
• Sound communication skills (written and verbal)

Knowledge
• Accounting standards, principles and basic understanding of IFRS (International
Financial Reporting Standards)
• MS Office
• Advanced Excel Skills
Attributes
• Results oriented
• Analytical thinking
• Customer Oriented
• Reliable, meticulous & precise
• Honesty & integrity
• Taking ownership
• Professionalism
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills
• Assertive, dynamic & proactive individual
• Interpersonal Skills
• Accountability
• Deadline driven.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Data gathering and analysis

Experience
• Minimum of 5 years’ working experience as Accountant.
• Proven experience dealing with accounts, financial systems management, and
operations in a large and complex organization.
• Working experience with sundry debtors.
• Working experience in calculation of “Cost of manufacturing” (finished goods)
• Minimum 2 years working experience calculation and reconciliation of VAT,
dividends, and provisional tax.
• Project accounting with a clear understanding of project requirements. Long- and
short-term projects
• Experience in importing goods
• Previous supervisory experience and advantage
• Accounting standards, principles and basic understanding of IFRS (International
Financial Reporting Standards)
• MS Office and advanced Excel Skills
• Finance and Accounting Systems (MS Dynamics AX/Financial Systems)
• Relevant legislation (i.e., Companies Act, Vat Act, Income Tax)
• Budgeting and forecasting
• Financial Statements
• Annual Audits and financial compliance

Minimum Qualifications required
• Matric
• Degree in Finance or Accounting (an advantage)