Senior Accountant

CA Financial Appointments; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 350,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

CA Financial Appointments in South Africa is seeking a senior financial controller to steer the finance function within a manufacturing group. You will sit at the management table, shaping growth and efficiency decisions and delivering real-time financial insight.

You will consolidate accounts across branches, build budgets and forecasts with Sales and Production, design KPIs and a Balanced Scorecard, and oversee the annual audit and tax compliance.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering consolidated management accounts across multiple branches.
• Strong budgeting, forecasting and financial planning capabilities.
• Proven ability to design KPIs and a Balanced Scorecard.
• Experience with audits and corporate tax compliance.

Responsibilities

• Prepare consolidated management accounts for the group across all branches.
• Lead budgets and forecasts in partnership with Sales and Production.
• Develop KPIs and a Balanced Scorecard to drive performance.
• Oversee annual audit, costing, and working capital management.
• Mentor and develop junior accounting staff.

Skills

Financial analysis

Management accounting

Budgeting

Forecasting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance

Tools

ERP systems

Excel (advanced)

Job description

Picture this

Summer hits, demand triples, production runs flat out across every branch, and somebody has to make sense of it all in real time. That somebody is you. This is a manufacturing business with real product, real seasonality, and real margin pressure, and the finance seat here isn't decorative. It's the control room.

Your domain:

• A seat at the management table, shaping growth and efficiency decisions instead of just documenting them afterward
• Consolidated management accounts across every branch and division, told in a way people actually understand: income statements, balance sheets, commentary that lands
• Budgets and forecasts built hand in hand with Sales and Production, so the numbers match what's actually happening on the factory floor
• KPIs and a Balanced Scorecard that you design, not just administer
• The annual audit, plus costing, capital planning, and working capital calls that influence real investment decisions
• Full statutory and tax compliance, handled so cleanly nobody downstream ever has to think about it
• A team of junior accountants who get better because you're the one developing them