OPERATIONAL ACCOUNTANT - RAIL OPERATIONS

 

Recruiter:

Farm Manager SA

Job Ref:

FM000793/SH

Date posted:

Friday, June 4, 2021

Location:

Capetown, South Africa


SUMMARY:
Cape Town Area – WC: This role provides the financial support to the operational team and will be responsible for all the financial processing and reporting to the Rail operational team.

POSITION INFO:

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

  • Bachelor’s degree in accounting or higher with operational environment experience
  • Must have at least 5 years’ experience in an accountant position
  • Ability to communicate effectively with both internal and external clients
  • Advanced excel skills
  • Knowledge of BI tools ideal

 

KNOWLEDGE required:

  • Knowledge of the industry and operations
  • Ability to analyse and evaluate market trends
  • Good relationship skills
  • Innovative and lateral thinking
  • Hands on management style
  • Independent
  • Strong negotiation skills
  • A good listener
  • Team player and ability to work in a dynamic team environment
  • Excellent reporting and presentation skills
    • Ability to research and study industry and related topics (environmental scanning)

SKILLS required:

Strategic planning competencies:

  • Demonstrating conceptual ability
  • Managing change

Management competencies:

  • Planning
  • Organising resources
  • Controlling utilization of resources and operational activities
  • Problem solving skills

People management competencies:

  • Motivating employees
  • Communication skills
  • Handling conflict
  • Valuing diversity
  • Building a team

Communication Competencies:

  • Making presentations
  • Compiling reports
  • Managing meetings

Self Management competencies:

  • Pursuing learning opportunities and self-development
  • Time-Management
  • Building & maintaining relations
  • Handling complaints/incidents
  • Marketing services

Customer Management competencies

Business Competencies:

  • Interpreting financial information
  • Working with financial systems
  • Compiling and managing a budget

 

ATTRIBUTES:

Respect

Integrity

Commitment

Trust

Ownership

Passion

Teamwork

 

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS:

Accounts Receivable:

Agree customer rates and process customer invoices and credit notes

Follow up on queries and collection of all outstanding debt

Collation of applications for new customer contracts

 

Accounts Payable:

Create purchase orders and receipting of service/goods received

Processing of invoices, account reconciliation and payment thereof within terms

Obtain foreign exchange deals for cross border payments

Collation of application for new supplier contracts

 

Cash Management

Ensuring sufficient funds available for day to day transactions

Foreign exchange impact assessment to minimise forex losses incurred

Allocation and processing of cashbook entries

Maintenance and reconciliation of the USD bank account

 

Insurance

Resolution of any insurance matters that may arise

 

Reporting

Performance of balance sheet reconciliations

Analysis of project performance for Rail Executive and General Manager

 

Customer Service

Ensure the quality of service provided is maintained through personal interaction with internal and external customers on an ongoing basis and timeous corrective action is taken when needed

People

Company code of conduct, policies and procedures are adhered to.

ONLY short-listed candidates will be contacted

To apply CLICK THIS LINK https://www.placementpartner.co.za/wi/vacancy/?id=farm&VacRef=FM000793&preview=74e28a45ccea46d138439d9ce7a6a9e4 or upload your CV to this specific position via --------Please upload your CV here-------->

 



 

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