Financial Accountant

SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:

Financial Accountant required for a renowned company based in East London 

Responsibilities:

Finance Accounting:

• Prepare underlying working papers for external audit purposes.
• Budget preparation and analysis.
• Interact with external auditors at the time of conducting audits.
• Manage financial statement audits and other agreed engagements.
• Examine, analyse, and interpret accounting records to prepare financial statements.
• Prepare annual/interim/monthly financial statements/management accounts.
• Organise, prepare, and review bookkeeping transactions.
• Gather and monitor financial data (e.g. sales revenues and liabilities).
• Monitor and report on accounting discrepancies.
• Conduct detailed risk analyses to assess potential investments.
• Analyse financial trends.
• Perform month-end and year-end close processes.

Risk Management:

• Perform cost estimates and prepare proposals.
• Lead project and keep Managers and/or Team mates up to date.
• Complete risk assessments.
• Ensure compliance with relevant Acts and minimise business risk.
• Self-Development:
• Identify training/development needs and proactively select effective solutions to address development gaps.
• Ensure that a personal development plan is developed and implemented.

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Accounting, Finance or relevant field
• 6 - 7 years of experience in financial department.
• Budget preparation and analysis
• IFRS statutory reporting experience (essential)
• Extensive CaseWare experience (essential)
• Tax experience (essential)
• Sage ERP (advantageous)
• Additional certification (e.g. CPA)
• Experience with consolidations (advantageous)

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Should you not receive a response within 14 days please consider your application unsuccessful. We will keep your CV on our database for any other relevant roles that may arise.