Finance Controller

Objective Personnel; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 420,000 - 720,000; Full time

Job summary

Objective Personnel is seeking an experienced accounting professional to support SA and HQ finance teams with invoice auditing, month-end data, and billing inquiries. The role involves costing, pricing input, and maintaining price integrity across ERP and airline systems.

Responsibilities include coordinating with other departments, reviewing discount schemes, training commercial staff, and ensuring accurate financial data across platforms, while supporting stock take activities when needed.

Qualifications

• Matric or Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance preferred.
• 3-5 years of experience in accounting field.
• 3+ years of experience in process improvement or operational excellence.
• Internal audit experience would be a plus.
• Strong fluency in software and computers, including Excel.
• Understanding of costing and pricing process.

Responsibilities

• Audit invoices to support SA and HQ finance teams.
• Provide month-end data on time and respond to questions.
• Coordinate with departments on billing questions/problems.
• Review global discounts scheme with HQ collaboration.
• Participate in periodic stock take reviews and updates.

Skills

Process improvement

Internal audit

Excel

Costing & pricing understanding

Education

Matric / Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance

Tools

Winrest ERP

Job description

Qualification

• Matric Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance is preferred

Requirements

• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in accounting field.
• 3+ Years of experience in process improvement or operational excellence.
• Internal audit experience would be a plus.
• Have strong fluency in software and computers, including Excel.
• Understanding of costing and pricing process.

Duties

• Accounting Support the South African and HQ finance teams by auditing invoices, providing month end data on time, and answering questions.
• Edit an invoice simulation whenever required.
• Coordinate with other departments to address questions/problems related to billing processes.
• Regular review of the global discounts scheme of the global accounts and its application in collaboration with HQ.
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
• As part of the finance team, you will be required to participate in periodic review/update of the stock take (clients and operations).

Costing, pricing, and invoicing

• Calculate the cost of sales in the ERP system to enable Commercial to strategically price with solid raw data.
• Extract financial raw data from the ERP system and verify for strategic use by the management when required.
• Participating when required, to client new menu presentation to support the commercial team with cost variation of the changes.
• Input prices into the system following a change/CPI revision triggered by Commercial.
• Make internal transmission of price updates in Winrest.
• Create and ensure appropriate price control on the 2nd flights of the cycle.
• Verify Commercial price input into the airlines systems when applicable.
• Monitor billing accuracy between ERP (Winrest) and airlines systems when applicable.
• Ensure commercial agreements are correctly translated into WR/billing systems.
• Provide training to commercial staff to improve accuracy.
• Own the integrity of pricing data across WR and airlines systems.
• Standardize workflow /approval process for pricing updates.

Safety

• To observe all safety rules and procedures.
• To ensure that all equipment and materials are not left in dangerous state.
• To ensure all HSE rules & procedures are followed and hazards/near miss and accidents are properly reported.
• To raise any work-safety hazard when participating in HSE meetings or Risk Assessment.
• Any other reasonable task that may be required by management.