Accountant

Stonebridge HR Solutions; Centurion; In loco; ZAR 700.000 - 900.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Stonebridge HR Solutions is seeking an Accountant to own group reporting, treasury, customer profitability and group consolidations, while leading the Accounts Receivable team. The role supports the finance function by enabling senior resources to focus on analysis, forecasting and business partnering as duties evolve within a dynamic group.

The successful candidate should be a self-starter, accurate, deadline-driven and able to work across teams in a changing environment.

Competenze

• B.Com degree or equivalent with relevant accounting experience.
• Exposure to reporting and reconciliations.
• Strong Excel and systems ability.

Mansioni

• Group reporting: prepare and review monthly and periodic reporting packs.
• Treasury: cash planning and cash flow forecasting across the group.
• Customer profitability: analyze margins and profitability trends by customer.
• Group consolidations: prepare intercompany eliminations and foreign operations consolidation.
• Dynamic functions: support other finance functions as business needs evolve.
• Team and general: manage the Accounts Receivable team; ad hoc duties as required.

Conoscenze

Excel

Systems ability

Formazione

B.Com degree

Descrizione del lavoro

Position overview

The Accountant takes ownership of group reporting, treasury, customer profitability and group consolidations, and manages the Accounts Receivable team. The role creates the capacity the finance team needs so that senior resources can move away from day to day processing and focus on analysis, forecasting and business partnering. The group is dynamic. The duties attached to this role will change from time to time to support the development of the group, and the successful candidate needs to be comfortable with that.

Requirements

Minimum

• B.Com degree, or equivalent.
• Relevant accounting experience, including exposure to reporting and reconciliations.
• Strong Excel and systems ability.

Advantageous

• SAIPA or CIMA qualified.
• Exposure to group consolidations and multi entity or multi currency reporting.
• Previous supervisory or team leadership experience.

Attributes

• Self starter who takes ownership without needing to be managed closely.
• Positive attitude.
• Can do attitude, comfortable in a dynamic environment where duties evolve.
• Accurate, deadline driven and comfortable working across teams.

Responsibilities

Group reporting

• Preparation and review of monthly and periodic group reporting packs.
• Ensuring reporting deadlines, accuracy and supporting reconciliations are met.
• Variance analysis and commentary to support management review.

Treasury

• Cash planning and cash flow forecasting across the group.
• Oversight of the treasury and cash planning resource reporting into this role.
• Daily bank functions may be added to this area over time.

Customer profitability

• Preparation and maintenance of customer profitability analysis.
• Identifying and reporting on margin and profitability trends by customer.
• Working with the Group Accountant, who retains oversight of this area.

Group consolidations

• Preparation of group consolidations, including intercompany elimination and reconciliation.
• Supporting the consolidation of foreign operations, including the UK.

Dynamic Functions

• Support other functions within the finance department on a need basis. It’s imperative that the ideal candidate are willing to move in between functions within finance as the business requirements change.

Team and general

• Management of the Accounts Receivable team.
• Day to day processing support as required, including support to the UK operation.
• Other relevant ad hoc functions as would reasonably be expected of an accountant.
• Duties may change from time to time to support group developments.