
Financial Accountant
- East London, Eastern Cape
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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.
- 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.
- 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)