Financial Analyst

Our client in the Technology industry is looking for a Financial Analyst to join their driven team.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensure the finance team is a strategic partner to the business.
• Support the CEO to deliver strategic initiatives.
• Full responsible for ensuring accurate financial record keeping.
• Responsible for ensuring accurate reconciliations between operational and accounting systems and all balance sheet reconciliations.
• Managing the year-end, interim, and all month-end processes and reporting.
• Responsible for managing the external audit process.
• Provide feedback and address audit.
• Ensure applicable policies and processes are created, documented, reviewed, signed off and adhered to.
• Developing strategies to minimize financial risk.
• Support current Financial Account in monitoring daily cash balances and determine cash requirements needed.
• Responsible for providing direction and support on the organizational budgeting process applicable to all the entities of the company.
• Regularly review the overall organizational expenditure to ensure the expenditure of all entities remains within budget.

Key Skills:

• Good understanding of financial, tax and commercial legislation across multiple African territories.
• Experience in Accounting Software and Payroll Software.
• Advanced MS Excel skills.
• Numerical skills.
• High attention to detail (accuracy).
• Ability to deal with complex information and requests.
• Budget management.
• Business acumen - ability to work alongside the business.
• Confident and enthusiastic self-starter who can take initiative.
• Mature decision making.
• Emotional intelligence.

Qualifications:

• CA (SA), CIMA or related qualification.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a similar position if qualified or 8-10 years if not qualified.