Are you a Junior Accountant looking for your next big step?
We are a successful international IT company looking to hire an Account Manager who is:
- Low maintenance (great personality, no emotional outbursts, takes constructive feedback well)
- A self-starter, able to hit the ground running
- Deadline driven
- Eager to learn and grow long-term with the team
Responsibilities will include:
Financial Management
- Contribute to the preparation of the annual budget
- Monitoring the budget against monthly expenditure
- Monitoring capital and operational budget expenditure
- Monitoring and managing irregular, unauthorized or wasteful expenditure
- Ensure accurate entry of transactions to the accounting system
- Check that month-end journals are done accurately
- Ensure the timely execution and accurate completion of general ledgers
- Reconciling of control accounts
- Preparation of monthly management accounts
- Preparation and assisting auditors with financial year-end
- General Filing
- Preparing and submitting periodic financial reports to management
- Processing income statements, balance sheets, and other management account reports
- Create financial forecasts and analyse risk
- Provide Tax planning strategies in accordance with existing legislation
- Submit VAT, TAX, and PAYE with assistance of external accountants
- Perform monthly Profit and Loss analysis ensuring transactions are posted accurately
- Prepare various financial reports such as monthly income, sales per item and submit to the Head of Finance
- Provide daily work logs on Zhero Wait
Account Receivable Management
- Send monthly debtors’ statements
- Follow up on outstanding accounts
- Invoice queries to be dealt with in a timely manner
- Ensuring payments are allocated as per remittance
- Confirm the validity of the tax invoices/ credit notes, and ensure that they have been duly approved
- Perform an age analysis on all accounts on a continual basis throughout the month to manage cash flow successfully
- Provide reporting weekly on age analysis and outstanding receivables
Risk Management and Internal Audit Processes
- Make recommendations on improved internal control systems
- Ensure safeguarding and retention of financial information
- Assist to facilitate internal audit processes
Policy and Strategy
- Provide input regarding policy development and implementation
- Provide input on systems, policies, and procedures within the accounts department
General Office Management
- Keeping Asset Register up to date and submitting to insurance quarterly
- Obtain signatures from relevant staff when assets are assigned and save them on the database
- Maintain a clean office environment by liaising with the cleaning company
- Stock-take of office supplies and order relevant items
- Order lunch every Friday
- Ensure any office requirements are dealt with in an acceptable time frame
General Administration
- Complete documents as and when requested by management
- Assist with general administration on properties
Requirements:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
- A minimum of year of proven Financial Management experience
- 3-year degree in Financial Management or Accounting
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Computer literacy
- Proficiency with the Microsoft Office suite, specifically Excel advanced
- Report writing
- A proven ability to work methodically, pay attention to detail and use initiative in solving problems
- Participates in proactive team efforts to achieve departmental goals
- Self-motivated and uses initiative and judgment to attain the best results
- The ability to work in a fast-moving environment
- Demonstrated ability to effectively manage competing priorities, to meet deadlines and targets
- Ability to provide and analyse financial information for business decisions
- A flexible and accommodating approach to variations in workload and tasks
- Proven ability to manage complex matters in a transparent and inclusive fashion
- Solution-driven-able to react quickly and resolve issues so that the workflow can continue
- Good relationship builder with strong diplomacy skills
- Ability to aspire to a culture of service excellence
- Experience implementing financial controls and compiling financial reports will be an advantage
- Knowledge of Generally Recognised Accounting Principles (GRAP) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
- Knowledge of Risk Management concepts and Financial Management
- Knowledge of relevant Tax Regulatory Legislation
Job Types:
- Full-time
- Permanent
Company Description:
We are an established international IT company with offices in London and Cape Town. We run a modern and open work environment that offers both flexibility and a dynamic work culture.
Location:
Cape Town/Century City – South Africa
To apply send your CV to careers@zhero.co.uk
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