Senior Financial Accountant

SUMMARY:
Well-established Construction concern based in Centurion, has a new opportunity for a Senior Accountant.  Report directly to the Financial Manager and be responsible for managing and overseeing a Junior Bookkeeper, a Sub-contractor Payments Clerk and 3 Creditors Clerks.  Solid and recent Buildsmart and advanced Excel skills essential for this role.

POSITION INFO:
Successful incumbent will have a completed B.Com (Accounting) degree/similar, coupled with 5+ years related Senior Accounting experience in a Construction / Projects concern. Duties include the full function up to Trial Balance, strong reconciliation and problem-solving skills with regards to all accounting and related matters. Reconcile control accounts, inter-company loan accounts and not be afraid to jump in and get your hands dirty in terms of getting cashbooks updated and doing some processing when needed. Drive the processes and provide assistance to the Junior staff to ensure that everything is done on time and accurately as well as drive the management reports for debtors management, sub-contractor and creditors management (in Excel) as well as the monthly TB and GL reconciliations to ensure correct and timeous processing to ensure accurate reporting by the FM. Be the right hand to the FM. Take responsibility for payment cycles. A person with a sense of attention to accounting principles of accuracy, completeness, existence, occurrence, classification, cut-off is critical for this role. Check monthly GL reconciliations and corrections must be made where misallocations or mistakes are found. Monthly management reports on the status of debtors, subbies, creditors, overheads, contract costs and the remaining balance sheet accounts. Assist the FM with statutory payments, cashflow planning, budgets, management accounts, BBBEE and normal audits and other adhoc functions.