Management Accountant - Pretoria

SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:

Management reporting and reconciliations

• Prepare management reports for allocated divisions
• Present management reports to financial manager, CFO and OPS managers
• Maintain and update BIC reports and ensure safe-keeping of files
• Analyse management reports for fluctuations and incorrect ratios and provide explanations
• Review expenses posted to allocated division and comment/ flag irregular/ abnormal spending that will affect Nett profit
• Analyse management cost reports for allocated division and send to senior managers monthly
• Assist with queries from OPS managers relating to reporting

Property, plant and equipment, and Insurance

• Prepare asset, liability, and capital account entries for all CAPEX transactions
• Prepare and maintain fixed asset register on Pastel Evolution
• Guide the assets verification bi-annually and ensure all company assets are accounted for and in working order
• Ensure sound and efficient processes for CAPEX transactions
• Oversee insurance policy schedules and tie back to company assets
• Ensure sound and efficient processes for maintaining the insurance schedules and insurance claims

Control accounts and month-end journals

• Reconcile payroll liability control accounts monthly
• Reconcile PPE control accounts monthly
• Import payroll journals once a month for all companies
• Prepare depreciation journals monthly
• Prepare provision journals monthly
• Prepare divisional admin and management cost journals monthly
• Prepare CIPC journals monthly
• Raise invoices for intercompany cost monthly

Month-end checks and controls

• Review and authorise the bookkeeping of companies within the Group
• Review and authorise processing of finance clerks for your allocated division

Creditors and accounts payable

• Oversee the creditors department with minimum of 4 team members reporting to the management accountant
• Ensure accuracy of financial entries as well as timeously payments to suppliers
• Ensure sound and efficient processes for creditors department

Taxes and Returns

• Prepare and submit SARS returns for all companies via e-filing
• Assist with VAT verifications and all SARS related notices and correspondence
• Ensure all SARS payments are made on time
• Assist with provisional tax calculations bi-annually

BBEEE Reporting

• Set up projects on Pastel and guide the accounts payable team to choose the correct projects when processing financial transactions
• Prepare procurement spend report monthly
• Assist with the drive to maximise our procurement spend to suppliers with the correct BBEEE levels

Online banking payments

• Monitor email group daily to ensure all payments are made and flag urgent payments
• Ensure that all new recipients are verified before adding them to online banking
• Release bank payments
• Release salary payment batches daily as handed over by payroll

Yearly financial audits

• Assist with the preparation of financial audits for the group of companies
• Review final TB’s and ensure that all control accounts are signed off and correct
• Prepare short term portion of financial leases and property bonds
• Prepare yearly VAT reconciliation to balance turnover and expenses back to VAT submitted to SARS
• Asset verification
• Correspond with auditors regarding audit related queries or assistance required with sampling

Minimum Requirements

• Completed B. Com degree in finance
• Completed articles
• Very strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience with preparing management reporting and splitting cost to different divisions/ areas/ branches, will be a huge advantage
• Attention to detail
• 3-5 years’ post article experience
• Experience on Pastel Partner/Evolution and BIC reporting
• Advanced experience on Excel/ Word