Accountant

Rivers Labour Consultants; Howick; On-site; NZD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Rivers Labour Consultants in Auckland, New Zealand seeks an experienced accountant to manage the complete accounting records for six companies and support budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning. The role covers journal entries, reconciliations, inventory control, and profitability analysis across multiple projects and units.

You will work closely with project managers to monitor financial performance, prepare monthly management accounts, and ensure accurate revenue and cost recognition.

Qualifications

• Maintains complete accounting records for multiple entities.
• Performs monthly journal entries, accruals, and provisions.
• Prepares monthly trial balances and management reports.

Responsibilities

• Maintain complete accounting records for six companies.
• Process financial transactions accurately and timeously.
• Prepare monthly Trial Balances for each company.
• Ensure general ledger accounts are maintained accurately.
• Perform monthly journal entries, accruals and provisions.
• Maintain fixed asset registers.
• Prepare monthly management and financial reports for management.
• Assist with budgeting, forecasting and financial planning.
• Monitor and analyse product, installation and operating costs.
• Allocate costs to projects and business units.
• Analyse margins and profitability by project and department.
• Identify cost-saving opportunities and report variances.
• Assist with pricing analysis and profitability reporting.
• Establish and monitor project budgets and track expenditures.
• Allocate labour, materials, subcontractor and overhead costs to projects.
• Monitor project profitability and report on financial performance.
• Ensure inventory valuation and stock records are accurate.
• Reconcile inventory with the general ledger and monitor stock variances.

Skills

Accounting

Budgeting

Cash Flow Management

Financial Reporting

General Ledger

C

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain the complete accounting records for six companies.

• Process all financial transactions accurately and timeously.

• Prepare monthly Trial Balances for each company.

• Ensure all general ledger accounts are accurately maintained.

• Perform monthly journal entries, accruals, and provisions.

• Maintain fixed asset registers.

• Prepare monthly management reports and financial reports for management.

• Assist with budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning.

• Monitor and analyse product, installation, and operational costs.

• Allocate direct and indirect costs accurately across projects and business units.

• Analyse margins and profitability by project and department.

• Identify cost-saving opportunities and report on cost variances.

• Assist management with pricing analysis and profitability reporting.

• Establish and monitor project budgets.

• Track project expenditure against approved budgets.

• Allocate labour, materials, subcontractor, and overhead costs to individual projects.

• Monitor project profitability and prepare project financial reports.

• Ensure project revenue and costs are recognised accurately.

• Work closely with project managers to monitor financial performance and forecast project outcomes.

• Maintain accurate inventory valuation and stock records.

• Reconcile inventory balances to the general ledger.

• Monitor inventory movements and investigate stock variances.

• Assist with stock takes and inventory audits.

• Ensure correct costing of inventory items.

• Monitor obsolete and slow-moving stock.

• Improve inventory controls and reporting.

• Bank reconciliations.

• Debtors reconciliations.

• Creditors reconciliations.

• Inter-company loan and balance reconciliations.

• General ledger reconciliations.

• VAT control reconciliations.

• Inventory and stock reconciliations.

• Monitor debtor collections.

• Manage creditor payments.

• Ensure supplier accounts are accurate.

• Resolve supplier and customer account queries.

• Monitor supplier reconciliations and payment terms.

• Prepare VAT calculations and submissions.

• Assist with PAYE and statutory reporting.

• Ensure compliance with SARS requirements.

• Prepare documentation for audits and year-end financial statements.

• Ensure compliance with accounting standards and company financial policies.

• Maintain accurate accounting records and filing systems.

• Assist with budgeting and cash flow reporting.

• Prepare monthly management accounts.

• Liaise with auditors, tax practitioners, and external accountants.

• Continuously improve accounting processes and internal controls.

Skills

• Accounting
• Budgeting
• C
• Cash Flow Management
• Financial Reporting
• General Ledger