Group Accountant

SUMMARY:
Attention All Group Accountants!

POSITION INFO:
Our client is seeking a Group Accountant to join their team.
Based in the East Rand, our client is a distributor of industrial machinery and accessories to the clothing, luggage, upholstery, and embroidery industries. They’re passionate about excellence and innovation in everything they do, and their finance team is no exception.
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Duties:

• Lead and manage a local team of accountants.
• Ensure quality of key financial controls and governance.
• Produce month-end financial ledgers to time, liaising with local accountants and uploading accurate data for relevant entities.
• Ensure month-end review of detailed balance sheet and sub-ledgers, payroll and tax reconciliations – drive consistency in approach and format.
• Oversight of monthly closure of bank, including reconciliations (and members) and revaluations.
• Ensuring accountants maintain detailed subsidiary ledgers - asset registers and monthly accounting of depreciation, debtors, creditors, members accounts.
• Monitoring of aged debtors and creditors.
• Key contact for local and group audits and liaising with auditors.
• Ensuring accountants maintain the cashbooks and cashflows for business entities.

• Matric (Grade 12)
• BCom Accounting
• BCom Honours
• CA(SA) / SAIPA / CIMA Qualified / AGA(SA)

• Completed SAICA Articles.
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics Business Central General is a must.
• Must have at least 2 years of management experience.
• Experience within shared services or finance operations management in a global organisation is beneficial.
• Must have experience in creating and maintaining robust controls within centralised finance operations.

• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Strong ethical standards and integrity.
• Strong leadership and management skills driving “Best in Class” approach.
• Passion for automation and building efficient processes.
• An analytical mind, keen eye for detail and desire to probe further into data.