Financial Accountant

SUMMARY:
A leading independent power producer, operating and developing power projects in Africa is looking for a Financial Accountant for a 6 month maternity cover. This role is based in Cape Town southern suburbs.

POSITION INFO:
A leading independent power producer, operating and developing power projects in Africa is looking for a Financial Accountant for a 6 month maternity cover. This role is based in Cape Town southern suburbs.

Key Responsibilities
1. Prepare and Manage transactional and reporting processes
· Complete all calculations and capture necessary month end entries including accruals, tax, deferred tax, intercompany transactions, etc.
· Invoicing of revenue and preparation of monthly entries.
· Maintain fixed asset registers, including creation of new assets and disposals.
· Prepare balance sheet and key income statement reconciliations.
· Prepare the finance inputs and analysis for monthly shareholder and stakeholder reports and board reports including explanations of key variances.
· Complete year end packs.
· Responsible for completion and filing of tax returns including VAT, Income Tax, WHT, etc.

2. Cash Flow Management
· Ensure timeous receipts of debtors’ balance and creditor payments.
· Maintain debt schedules and repayment of debt.

3. Statutory and Compliance Reporting
· Ad hoc compliance reports from various institutions including Stats SA, NERSA, etc.
· Report procurement spend for the quarter to the economic development team.

4. Budgeting and Forecasting:
· Complete budget reporting templates.
· Upload of budgets into the accounting system.

5. Statutory Audit:
· Providing supporting documentation and answering queries on the year end audit.
· Assisting the financial statement consultant with drafting queries on the annual financial statements.

6. Support the Broader Team:
· Ad hoc support to the finance and operations team on items including but not limited to: BBBEE reporting, vendor management, Economic Development reporting, etc.
· Undertake ad hoc finance responsibilities in support of the group, as appropriate.


Skills and Competencies
1. Sound technical, business and financial reporting skills.
2. Excellent attention to detail.
3. Delivery-oriented, able to manage time, prioritize and to adhere to strict deadlines.
4. Able to solve problems logically.
5. Excellent verbal communication; includes being responsive, having good listening skills and being able to communicate appropriately with all levels of personnel.
6. Excellent written communication; includes writing clear, concise e-mails and report-writing.
7. Excellent team player; able to balance team and individual responsibilities.
8. Able to self-manage and work well independently.
9. Able and willing to learn quickly.
10. Comfortable working in a fast-paced and challenging environment.


Experience, Knowledge and Qualifications
1. Undergraduate degree majoring in Accounting, with 5 minimum years relevant financial accountant experience in a commercial or corporate environment.
2. Relevant experience working with Microsoft Office packages (Outlook, Word, Excel & PowerPoint).
3. Relevant working experience with an ERP system.
4. Relevant working experience loading payments on a banking profile.
5. Knowledge of financial systems, financial processes and internal control mechanisms.
6. Experience in a shared services environment is an advantage.
7. Experience in a multi-company or multi-entity is an advantage.
8. Experience in an asset-intensive organisation is an advantage.