Financial Accountant

Recruiter:

Pronel Personnel

Job Ref:

3657138674

Date posted:

Thursday, April 10, 2025

Location:

Durban, South Africa

SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:

Our client based in Pietermaritzburg is seeking an experienced Financial Accountant. The purpose of the role is to ensure the availability and integrity of financial statements and reports that accurately reflect all financial transactions of the business. The position reports directly to the General Manager: Finance.

Requirements:

Grade 12 or equivalent with mathematics.
BCompt/BCom Accounting/ finance – Honours degree;
Articles will be an advantage.
3 years’ experience as a Financial Accountant in a corporate environment.

Responsibilities:

• Leadership
- Manage the Credit Controller and Creditors Clerk;
- Implement development plans of sub-ordinates to maximise efficiency and achieve company
- strategies and goals.

• Reconciliations
- Compile all balance sheet reconciliations (Incl. bank reconciliations);
- Review creditors reconciliations;
- Manage petty cash and regular reconciliation to cash on hand;
- Continuous monitoring of reconciliation processes to ensure that they are being performed
- correctly.

• Financial Reporting
- Preparing weekly and monthly management reports for distribution including required journal
- entries;
- Manage historical and forecast cash flow reporting;
- Support all teams in provision of detailed financial information to support actions as
- highlighted in reporting;
- Prepare annual financial statements using CaseWare;
- Improve Financial Reporting to improve decision making.

• Payroll
- Wages - Review of reconciliation of earnings and hours prior to payment;
- Salaries - Review of reconciliation of earnings and hours prior to payment.
- Reconciliation of payroll variances between actual and budget/forecast.

• Payment approval
- Approval of payments on banking system;
- Manage timeous payment of invoices;
- Ensure payments are prepared and paid timeously.

If you meet all of the above, please apply directly here. Please note due to high volume responses, only candidates that meet the advertised criteria will be contacted.

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