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Senior Accountant
Job Description
Job description
Overall Objective:
To ensure completeness of financials in accordance with statutory accounting practices, and financial support to the business.
Key Performance Areas:
- To ensure complete and accurate presentation of financial statements and reports applying statutory and accounting best in class standards.
- To efficiently plan, prioritise, interact and delegate interdependently with other functional areas to meet deadlines, and satisfy all stakeholder obligations (Group Finance etc.).
- To proactively identify and resolve financial inadequacies or risks inherent in the current financial position and/or relating to past and historical practices.
- Responsible for ensuring controls, authority matrixes are embedded in business processes and disciplines to achieve compliance across all financial dependent activities.
- To stay abreast of latest and evolving accounting and legislative practices e.g. King III, companies act, IFRS, taxation.
- To ensure financial transactions and recons are maintained within defined ageing and standards across order-to-cash and procure-to-pay to achieve an optimum cash position and fair representation of the balance sheet and income statement.
- To ensure control and monitoring of the business assets and pre and post evaluation of capital expenditure.
- To meet quality and compliance obligations that arises from internal and external audits and other quality reviews and standards (e.g. ISAE 3402, tax audits etc.)
- To conduct analytical reviews, forecast and budgetary controls of monitoring and alerting so that business is operating within the set targets to achieve its financial objectives.
- To ensure effective people management (subordinates and other dependents) and development of their capabilities to improve and grow capabilities (talent) within finance.
Skills:
- Presentation skills
- Communication (verbal and written)
- Control and risk management
- Analytical, modeling, forensic and problem solving skills
- Leadership and people management skills
- Knowledge of HR processes and disciplines
- Advanced computer skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Proactive and results driven
Knowledge
- Excellent knowledge of statutory and accounting principles
- Reconciliations of order-to-cash, procure-to-pay and inventory.
- Principles of project management
- Knowledge of the logistics and distribution environment
Personal Competencies:
- Adhering to Principles and Values
- Writing and Reporting
- Presenting and Communicating Information
- Analysing
- Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations
- Planning and Organising
- Achieving Personal Work Goals and Objectives
- Leading and Supervising
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