Accountant

Italtile; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 450,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Italtile Group Finance is seeking a Financial Accountant to support Top T stores across South Africa. The role involves daily and monthly finance tasks, including bank reconciliations on SAP, supplier payments, VAT and group reporting.

You will work with store operators and the senior team to maintain internal controls, accurate ledgers and timely financial insights as the store base grows or contracts.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in English and fluent in at least one African language is required.
• Proficiency in MS Office and an accounting package is required.
• High attention to detail and problem solving skills are essential.
• Customer service oriented with strong communication to stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to work under strict deadlines and manage high data volumes.

Responsibilities

• Daily clearing of banking general ledger accounts on SAP for daily store cash ups and payments.
• Daily bank clearing for deposits and payments and reconciliation of receipts.
• Assist stores with customer card issues, refunds, and receipts.
• Process payments to non-stock suppliers; verify invoices, supplier details and BBBEE certificates in SAP.
• Support stores with internal controls related to cash, petty cash, stock receipting and record keeping.

Skills

Proficiency in English

Fluent in at least one African lang.

MS Office proficiency

Accounting package proficiency

Attention to detail

Customer service orientation

Effective communication with stakehold

Ability to cope with deadlines

SAP experience

Tools

SAP

Job description

A Financial Accountant position has become available in the Italtile Group Finance department, specifically supporting Top T (a business unit within the Italtile Group). The Financial Accountant will resume responsibility for approximately 30 Top T stores across South Africa. This may increase or decrease in the future, depending on new stores that may open.

The role will include the following duties and responsibilities but is not limited to:

• Daily clearing of banking general ledger accounts on SAP, relating to daily cash ups by the stores. Cash and credit card payments are received from the bank on a daily basis and requires to be reconciled back to the store cash ups. Alternative payments methods (Pay Just Now and Lay Up) are received monthly.
• Daily bank clearing for all other deposits and payments.
• Assisting the stores with queries relating to customer card issues, refunds to customers or customer receipts.
• Daily processing of payments to non-stock suppliers on behalf of the stores. This will include receiving and validating Tax Invoices, Supplier entity details and BBBEE certificates, for capturing to SAP.
• Assisting and guiding the stores with internal controls relating to (but not limited to) cash up, petty cash, goods receipting of stock, record keeping.

Monthly responsibilities

• Full stock vendor reconciliations completed on SAP for payments to suppliers on the 15th and 31st of the month. Stock supplier reconciliations and payments are split amongst the 2 Top T Accountants.
• Maintaining the asset register for each store on SAP – new assets, retirements and monthly depreciation.
• Monthly review of stores income statement and ensure that all entries are recorded correctly.
• Assisting the stores with income statement queries and resolutions to such queries.
• Closing of month end by the 3rd working day, of the month.
• Monitor and query any variances to the stores budgets.
• Assist with preparing the monthly reporting pack for Top T Group stores by the 7th of the month.
• Balance sheet and bank reconciliations completed on SAP monthly and in agreed time frame.
• Resolving any balance sheet items within the following month.
• Attending monthly financial review meetings with operations team and directors.
• Shared responsibility for monthly VAT returns.
• Shared responsibility for monthly Statistics SA returns.

Adhoc responsibilities

• Assisting with all external audit queries in a timely manner at half year, interim and year end audit.
• Income statement training for store operators.
• Monthly store visits.
• Bi-annual stock counts.
• Assist with annual budget process.
• Assist company directors and the Top T Operations team with financial queries.

Requirements

• Proficiency in English and fluent in at least one African language.
• Proven track record in an accounting role.
• Proficiency in MS Office and an accounting package.
• High attention to detail and problem solving skills.
• Customer service oriented and being able to communicate appropriately.
• Able to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the business, from executive directors to store employees.
• Able to cope under strict deadlines and manage high volumes of data.