Financial Manager

Dante Personnel Recruitment (Pty) Ltd; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Dante Personnel Recruitment (Pty) Ltd is assisting a manufacturing client in identifying a Financial Manager. The candidate should be a registered Professional Accountant (SA) with SAIPA/SAIBA or CIMA, with post-qualification experience in a financial-manager or senior-accountant role.

CA(SA) candidates are welcome but package targets a professional accountant. Expertise in landed-cost accounting, stock in transit, bonded stock, foreign-currency purchasing, and forward cover is essential.

Qualifications

• CA(SA) candidates welcome but salary package set for professional accountant.

Job description

Our client in the manufacturing industry is looking for a financial manager.

Minimum requirements:

• Professional Accountant (SA) registered with SAIPA, Business Accountant registered with SAIBA, or CIMA (ACMA/CGMA), with at least five years' post-qualification experience in a financial-manager or senior-accountant role. CA(SA) candidates are welcome but the package is set for a professional accountant.
• At least three years in an importing distributor or wholesaler: landed-cost accounting, stock in transit, bonded stock, foreign-currency purchasing and forward cover.
• Demonstrable, hands-on South African customs knowledge: SAD500s, customs worksheets, MRNs, bond releases, clearing-agent reconciliations, exporter / importer registration on SARS RLA, vouchers of correction and the documentary requirements for import VAT claims.
• Strong VAT technical ability across multiple registered vendors, including import VAT, zero-rated exports and SARS verifications; able to reconcile VAT control accounts to the SARS statement of account without assistance
• Working knowledge of exchange-control documentation for outward foreign payments and crossborder receipts through a South African commercial bank.
• Experience preparing provisional and annual tax computations for companies and working with an external tax practitioner on SARS eFiling.
• Sage (Sage 50 / Sage Business Cloud / Sage Evolution or similar) and advanced Excel: lookups, pivot tables, landed-cost and cash-flow models.
• Experience supervising at least two staff in a small finance team.
• Multi-entity, intercompany and consolidation experience.