Financial Accountant

CV Desk; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

CV Desk in Cape Town is seeking a Finance professional responsible for execution, governance and compliance at an operational level. You will drive accounting processes, internal controls and reporting across multiple stakeholders to ensure accurate financial statements.

The role emphasizes statutory and regulatory reporting, external audit coordination and cross-functional collaboration to deliver timely submissions and insights.

Qualifications

• CA(SA) with 2+ years finance/post articles experience.
• Strong analytical skills and financial reporting expertise.
• Experience with large data sets in Excel/Access and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Ensure financial accounting transactions are accurately reflected in ledgers.
• Maintain internal controls and governance over accounting processes.
• Prepare monthly management reports with variance commentary.
• Manage external audit process and sign-off on annual financial statements.
• Coordinate regulatory reporting and tax submissions.
• Review and approve month-end reconciliations and payments.

Skills

Accounting processes

Analytical thinking

Financial analysis

Financial reporting

Education

CA(SA) with 2+ years finance/post articles experience

Tools

Microsoft Access

Excel

Job description

Contract type: Full-time, On-site, Permanent.

Locations: Cape Town

Client industry: investment, savings, insurance, and banking group

Applications Closing date: 29th June 2023

Job Description:

This role is accountable for execution, governance and compliance at an operational level. In this role you will be accountable for achieving results through the efforts of others.

Accounting Records

• Ensures that the financial accounting transactions are accurately reflected in the business unit ledgers.
• Creates a healthy internal control environment to ensure integrity of financial information.
• Effects ongoing changes to internal controls as necessitated by changes in business and corporate governance.
• Monitors and reports on status of all control accounts in the business unit.
• Prepares monthly financial reports for management, including a high-level variance report by agreed deadline.
• Produces ongoing and ad-hoc reporting based on requirements from business units, central finance and other mutual stakeholders.
• Drives and collates monthly submission consisting of report and commentary by agreed deadline.
• Manages reporting requirements for the business unit.

Governance & Compliance

• Accountable for governance and compliance at an operational level.
• Ensures the effectiveness and appropriateness of the accounting processes utilised to fulfill the needs of the business.
• Provides advice on accounting policy and practice to senior and middle management.
• Balances own priorities with directing and motivating others.
• Creates a climate for optimal performance.
• Manages performance, plans and assigns work.

Technical requirements

• Able to work with large data (Microsoft Access and Excel)
• Project management for internal BAU initiatives
• Manager of others
• Ability to work across multiple functions to ensure deliverables are met
• Strong Analytical skills

Statutory reporting:

• Responsible for the preparation of the annual financial statements.
• Manage the external audit process and ensure sign-off of the annual financial statements within agreed.
• Prepare reporting submissions (HFM and offline) on a monthly basis.
• Liaise with stakeholders, including accountants of other divisions within the cluster.

Regulatory reporting:

• Assist Compliance with any ad-hoc reports required for regulatory visits.
• Ensure all taxes are filed according to tax standards.

Other:

• Various tax preparations and submissions.
• Review and approval of monthly payments.
• Review and approval of journal entries where necessary.
• Review and approval of month-end reconciliations.

Requirements

• CA(SA) with 2+ years finance/post articles experience

Skills

• Accounting Processes, Analytical Thinking, Financial Analysis and Reporting, Financial Controlling