Financial Accountant

• Demonstrate budget and cost awareness and proactively identifies and implements cost saving initiatives
• Identifies and escalates potential risks that could result in increased costs
• Follows procurement standards and ensures adherence to the prescribed budget and time frames

• Prepares month-end trial balance and journals including depreciation, inventory, prepayments, provisions, and accruals and completes the month-end close.
• Review supplier reconciliations.
• Reconciles and clears the general ledger control accounts.
• Ensures all balance sheet accounts are reconciled and signed off on a monthly basis within month-end deadlines.
• Prepares and submits tax calculations and VAT submissions.
• Validates and authorises all financial reconciliation.
• Prepares supporting documentation for and assist with the half year end review as well year end audit.

• Ensuring the efficient management of company resources in accordance with the stipulations of relevant legislation, including Companies Act, International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) principles, King (III) and others.
• Ensure the accuracy and integrity of financial information, reporting and disclosure requirements, internal controls, and management information systems.

• Development of staff within the finance function.
• Manage performance of direct reports ensuring agreement of annual goals, measuring performance against agreed goals, and dealing with non-performance accordingly.
• Talent management of direct reports, including career developments and paths for all staff and succession planning for key positions.
• Ensure that the working environment contributes to improving staff morale and increased productivity.
• Alignment to the organisation's transformation objectives through departmental processes
• Coaching and mentoring of direct reports
• Ensuring a healthy and safe work environment for employees

• Manages supplier and stakeholder expectations and requirements to deliver effective and efficient accounting services to the business in line with company values and standards.
• Drives supplier and stakeholder satisfaction through the provision of accounting services.
• Builds and maintains key stakeholder relationships including:

• Financial Manager, GM: Mine and HOD's.

• Negotiate with internal and external stakeholders to promote the business and service objectives of the company.
• Ensure that the needs of organisational stakeholders are prioritised and managed including:

• Colleagues and employees
• Suppliers
• Auditors

• Works with the Financial Manager, HOD's, colleagues and staff members to discuss issues, coordinate activities, or resolve problems

• Matric / Grade 12
• BCom (Hons) Accounting
• 3 - 5 years relevant financial accounting experience
• Mining Industry experience advantageous

• Mining Tax or similar

• Attention to detail and neat execution of work
• Zero tolerance for errors

• Teamplayer
• Good communicator
• Assertive in obtaining

• Market related

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