Senior Accountant

Austell Pharmaceuticals; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 550,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Austell Pharmaceuticals in Parktown, Johannesburg, is seeking a Senior Accountant to join the Finance Department. You will support accurate financial reporting, month-end close, general ledger management, budgeting, supplier payments, and inventory accounting in a fast-paced environment.

You will analyse financial performance against budgets and forecasts, coordinate close processes, and assist with audits and ERP-related improvements. Strong Excel and communication skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Accounting with Honours.
• CA with 2–3 years post-articles experience, or CIMA with 2–3 years’ experience, or BCom Honours with 3–5 years’ experience.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office and Pastel or a similar accounting system.
• Strong communication, planning, time management, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly management accounts, including income statements, balance sheets, cash flow statements, and supporting schedules.
• Analysing financial performance against budgets, forecasts, and prior periods.
• Coordinating month-end and year-end close processes, including journals, accruals, provisions, and reconciliations.
• Maintaining the general ledger and supporting ledgers, including creditors, debtors, inventory, fixed assets, and intercompany accounts.
• Assisting with budgets, forecasts, and cash flow projections.
• Preparing and processing local and foreign supplier payment batches.
• Reconciling supplier invoices, stock receipts, purchase orders, and warehouse records.
• Supporting inventory accounting, landed cost calculations, and stock variance investigations.
• Maintaining approved product pricing, SEP updates, tender prices, customer price lists, and related system changes.
• Supporting statutory, internal, external, and B-BBEE audits.
• Maintaining documentation for foreign payments, imports, and exchange-control compliance.
• Supporting ERP implementation, system improvements, reporting enhancements, and finance process improvements.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Communication

Planning

Time management

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor of Accounting with Honours

CA with 2–3 years post-articles experience

CIMA with 2–3 years’ experience

BCom Honours with 3–5 years’ experience

Tools

Microsoft Office

Pastel

Job description

Parktown, Johannesburg | Full-Time | Office-Based

Role Overview:

Austell is looking for a detail-driven Senior Accountant to join its Finance Department. This role will support accurate financial reporting, month-end and year-end close, general ledger management, budgeting, supplier payments, inventory accounting, pricing support, compliance, audit readiness, and process improvement.

The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, excellent attention to detail, and the ability to work effectively across departments. You should be confident working with financial data, reconciliations, reporting deadlines, and finance controls in a fast-paced environment.

Preparing monthly management accounts, including income statements, balance sheets, cash flow statements, and supporting schedules

Analysing financial performance against budgets, forecasts, and prior periods

Coordinating month-end and year-end close processes, including journals, accruals, provisions, and reconciliations

Maintaining the general ledger and supporting ledgers, including creditors, debtors, inventory, fixed assets, and intercompany accounts

Assisting with budgets, forecasts, and cash flow projections

Preparing and processing local and foreign supplier payment batches

Reconciling supplier invoices, stock receipts, purchase orders, and warehouse records

Supporting inventory accounting, landed cost calculations, and stock variance investigations.

Maintaining approved product pricing, SEP updates, tender prices, customer price lists, and related system changes

Supporting statutory, internal, external, and B-BBEE audits

Maintaining documentation for foreign payments, imports, and exchange-control compliance

Supporting ERP implementation, system improvements, reporting enhancements, and finance process improvements

Bachelor of Accounting with Honours

CA with 2–3 years post-articles experience, or CIMA with 2–3 years’ experience, or BCom Honours with 3–5 years’ experience

Advanced Excel skills

Good knowledge of Microsoft Office and Pastel or a similar accounting system

Strong communication, planning, time management, and problem-solving skills