Group Finance Accountant

Hire Resolve; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is currently seeking a skilled Group Finance Accountant to join a client’s team in Cape Town. The role includes month-end accounting, year-end audits, budgeting, and financial reporting. Candidates must have 3 years of post-article experience and management accounting capabilities. You will be responsible for preparing financial reconciliations, managing audits, and assisting with presentations. An effective independent problem-solver is ideal for this role in the dynamic financial environment.

Qualifications

• 3 years post article experience
• Management accounting experience
• Ability to work independently

Responsibilities

• Preparing loan account reconciliations and product development cost calculations
• Management of the year-end external audit requirements
• Compiling of management information
• Assistance/involvement with mergers and acquisitions

Skills

Management accounting experience

Problem solving skills

Job description

Hire Resolve is currently seeking a skilled Group Finance Accountant to join our client’s team in Cape Town. The Group financial accountant will be responsible for month-end accounting and reporting processes, interim/year-end closing and reporting aspects, year-end audit, budgeting process and other financial related projects which could change from time to time.

Responsibilities

Month End

• Preparing loan account reconciliations and product development cost calculations
• Review of subsidiaries’ management accounts
• Tax calculations
• Preparing group consolidated management accounts

Year-end Audit

• Management of the year-end external audit requirements/deliverables
• Ensure that financial transactions in the group are recorded in compliance with IFRS
• Assist group companies with technical accounting transactions and year-end reporting packs
• Review inter-group transactions and loan accounts
• Overseeing the reporting by group companies (local and foreign) and perform group consolidations
• Tax calculations
• Group financial reporting packs for submission to a listed company
• Preparation of group companies annual financial statements

Reporting

• Compiling of management information
• Drafting of reports for the Finance and risk committee and board of directors

Other

• Tax compliance responsibilities
• Compile group consolidated budgets and budget reporting pack
• Compile Group consolidated cash flow forecast
• Assistance/involvement with mergers and acquisitions
• Assist CFO and CEO with presentations to stakeholders

Requirements

• 3 years post article experience
• Management accounting experience
• Problem solving skills / can work independently