Senior Accountant

PCS

Centurion, Gauteng, ZA

2d ago

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This Senior Accountant position for an Industrial Engineering company reports to the Finance Manager and is a challenging role with lots of scope & opportunity to show your abilities & make a difference.

You will be an integral part of the Finance team and will support the Financial Manager in terms of accounting responsibilities including reconciling account balances and bank statements, maintaining general ledger and preparing month-end close procedures. Your Responsibilities :

GENERAL

Responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the accounting and control information held in and reported from the organisation’s accounting systems

Prepare the organisations budgets, forecasts and business planning

Preparing and analysing cash flow statements, income and expenditure accounts and balance sheet accounts

Provide financial support to the projects teams, finance teams and business development teams

Reinforce financial data confidentiality

Any other duties as may be required by the Managing Director

DAILY / WEEKLY

Tax invoices (Orders and projects)

Project (SQ) supplier invoices

Overheads invoices

Cash books

Royalties processing

Current cash flow

Follow up the costs classification

MONTHLY

Prepare the justification of the content of the accounts including the bank reconciliations

Month end payments

VAT processing & filing

Follow up on the inventories of the warehouse and reconciliation thereof

Production orders / WIP analysis & reconciliation

Follows up the workload of the company

Following up on all projects (Sales Price and Gross Margin) from booking to completion : ensuring the Gross Margin at booking is correctly calculated and follow up until 100 % completion of the project.

Hours spent per contracts compare to the initial estimate

BFC Monthly reporting (Intercompany reconciliation; order intake; cash flow)

QUARTERLY

Review of the provisions, the accruals to be booked if any on the on-going contracts, the order book, the overheads

First analytical review of the P&L and the Balance Sheet (to make sure that the GL is 100% justified)

Assets & depreciation

BFC Quarterly reporting (Intercompany reconciliation; P&L Flash report; C Package; RB Package; AX packages Off balance sheet liabilities )

Follows up the budget (actual versus last revision explanation of the variances anticipation of the variances and proposal of corrective actions)

BI-ANNUALLY / ANNUALLY

PRT (annual cash forecast) package

Audit : interim and year-end, including validation of the audit report

Calculates the standard hourly rate

Corporate TAX returns

Knowledge of the Process is required to operate, monitor and maintain direct area of accountability and complete necessary work as per the accountabilities mentioned above.

Understand how changes to process conditions affect the area process outputs and how this impacts on other areas of the site from a compliance perspective.

Liaise with external auditors on completion of year-end audit

Qualifications

Accounting qualification

Skills You will have 10 years proven work experience in a Senior Financial role and have :

Strong organisational skills to ensure timelines are met

Auditing background

SAP experience would be a distinct advantage

Good written and verbal communication skills

Good planning & organisational skills

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