Financial Management Trainee Accountant

SUMMARY:
My focus client in the FMCG space, based in Randfontein is urgently looking for a Management Accountant with either SAICA or SAIPA articles (Completed) to fill the role of Financial Management Accountant Trainee. No post article experience necessary - Preference will be awarded to immediately available candidates.

POSITION INFO:

My focus client in the FMCG space, based in Randfontein is urgently looking for a Management Accountant with either SAICA or SAIPA articles (Completed) to fill the role of Financial Management Accountant Trainee. No post article experience necessary - Preference will be awarded to immediately available candidates.

Minimum Requirements:

• SAICA or SAIPA Articles completed
• Bcom Degree
• FMCG exposure

Key Areas:

• Financial Accounting and reporting

-       Assist with all financial accounting processes of the business and ensuring successful month end closures within tight deadlines.

-       Assisting in financial analysis of contracts to ensure profitability is explained and justified

-       Ensure all balance sheet reconciliations are reviewed timeously and all action items attended to

-       Oversee the accounts payable process to ensure efficiency and accuracy of payments and reconciliations

-       Ensure all intercompany billing and liabilities are recognised before intercompany cut-off

-       Assisting in ensuring all management accounts are reviewed before submission to the CFO

-       Assisting in ensure all Forex analysis is completed accurately and submitted timeously to the Financial Controller.

-       Assisting in ensuring all admin fee costs are analysed monthly to ensure cost containment is achieved

• Compliance

-       Ensure that monthly VAT is prepared and submitted to SARS

-       Ensure all monthly returns are submitted to SARB and Reserve bank timeously

-       Ensure all annual returns are submitted to SARB, Reserve Bank and SARS

• Business Planning and Forecasting

-       Assist in Preparing financial forecasts in line with the business requirements.

-       Assist with the preparation of budgets for the annual business plan.

• Controls – Assisting in ensure adequate assessment and mitigation of risk as well as compliance with applicable regulatory or other legal and governance requirements.
• Operations

-       Assist to drive co-ordination between the Finance and the Operations Teams to ensure proper alignment and delivery between the teams.

-       Review the accuracy of payments and approve the payments for processing

• Efficiency/Effectiveness

-       Manage the expectations from the CFO to ensure optimal performance.

-       Individually accountable for own time, tasks and output quality

• General

-       Assisting Financial Controller to ensure the Audit is smooth and efficient

-       Continuously seeks to improve the processes and control environment.

-       Maintains suitable financial control environment.

To apply, kindly ensure that you meet all stated requirements before submitting your profile through to adatadin@------

Recruiter: Angie Datadin

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