Chief Accountant
Sandton - South Africa
Job Summary
- Oversee the completeness and accuracy of various functions in the finance department. Includes all entities within Southern Africa Angola DRC Zambia Anglo West Africa Nigeria Togo
- Effective collaboration with FSSC and business operations
- Backup to Finance Manager
- Reconcile IFRS 16 staff accounts forex to employees prepayments payroll accounts and other AP related balance sheet recons
- Take appropriate action to resolve any concerns with the above
- Reconcile P&L accounts as deemed necessary by the Finance Manager
- Report on P&L accounts as deemed necessary by the Finance Manager
- Organize shared drives and sharepoint sites
- Involved in MCS review and collecting evidence
- Review AP payment recons and take necessary action to resolve any reconciled items
- Resolving overdue intercompany balances AR & AP
- Forecast intercompany cashflow
- Ensure policies and procedures are drafted maintained and kept up to date
- RiskConnect or other relevant risk management system submissions (backup)
- Ownership of corporate sustainability submissions
- Ownership of Stats SA and other related submissions
- Approve client refunds
- Approve client credit limits less than R 50 000
- Approve WHT write-offs
- Approve petty cash purchases over the single transaction limit
- Approve SARB approvals
- Release AP payments
- Release HR & payroll payments
- Support the taxation department within the finance function.
- Filing and maintaining documents and records
- Work in coordination with direct manager and finance team with regards to ERP and other system upgrades
- Assist in external and internal audits.
- Draft and create various templates required to improve processes
- At all times comply with SGS Code of Integrity and Professional Conduct.
Qualifications :
Education
- Grade 12 (Matric)
- Honors or post-grad equivalent
Experience
- 5 years accounting experience
- Experience on various ERP finance systems
- Experience in reporting and submissions of multiple entities with multiple currencies.
- Exceptional administrative and filing skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of stakeholders
- Teamwork and collaboration.
- Attention to detail (accuracy)
- Business partnering focus.
Additional Information :
- Cease the use of any equipment that may be deemed to constitute a safety hazard or entry to hazardous environments without the necessary knowledge and protection and take action to address the hazard.
- Cease to continue with work that may affect the quality (integrity) of services and take action to address the issue.
- Initiate a formal improvement request when a deviation of the system occurs improvements are identified or when nonconformity is identified.
NB: If you do not receive any response in 2 weeks consider your application unsuccessful.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
About Company
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