Overview

Our esteemed client is one of our country’s leading processing facilities of fresh and premium quality products.

We have an unique opportunity for a seasoned Financial Accountant to join their team. The Holdings Company has 6 subsidiaries for which the Finance Department is responsible for.

We are looking for a qualified accountant with a fierce work ethic and strong financial acumen, solid understanding of accounting principles and practices, and stand in for the Financial Director as required.  

Key Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
• Minimum of 3 years of accounting experience 
• Solid understanding of accounting principles and practices
• Proficient in Pastel Evolution, Pastel Partner and Excel
• Experience in Pastel Payroll beneficial
• Excellent working knowledge and experience of stock systems
• Skills: Highly organised and detail-oriented with strong financial acumen and excellent time management skills. Results driven with strong communication skills; proficient in presenting reports and financial information to others 
• Own reliable transport essential 

Key Duties

Daily / Weekly:

• Debtors
• Processing of daily invoicing
• Processing of credit notes
• Daily follow up on outstanding accounts (COD and accounts)
• Submitting weekly Stucky downloads to the bank for our invoice factoring 
• Weekly emails to top customers following weeks estimate order and top up payments
• Filing of customer sales order and invoices
• Daily sales reports to Directors
• Attending to customer queries Account and non-account related queries (Daily)
• Creditors
• Daily capturing of supplier invoices
• Purchasing foreign exchange contracts
• Submission of weekly BOP to the bank
• Processing daily/weekly supplier payments
• Cashbook
• Daily processing of cashbooks
• Processing daily and weekly payments to suppliers
• Reconciling cashbooks
• Managing Petty cash 
• Managing weekly cashflow budget
• Fixed assets
• Maintaining fixed asset register monthly.
• Raising monthly depreciation
• Journalising sale of fixed assets.
• Inventory
• Processing daily supplier stock invoices
• Stock journals across departments 

Month End:

• Debtors
• Monthly reconciling of customer accounts 
• Sending customer statements
• Creditors
• Monthly reconciling of supplier statements 
• Monthly payments to suppliers
• Other
  • Month end Journals (Stock included)
  • VAT return (VAT201) submission and reconciliations to the SARS
  • Preparing management pack for Directors
  • BEE reports for BEE audit
  • Monthly submission of documents for the bank audit

OTHER:

• Completing supplier credit application
• Vetting/approving/scanning/filing customer credit application forms
• Prepare sale reports for sales department when needed. 
• Managing the Debtor Insurance portal
• Preparing Monthly BEE audit reports for Peoples Partners and yearly BEE audit
• Managing all debtor legal handovers and follow ups
• Managing all Bank related queries
• Any other tasks given by the Directors

Year End Duties:

• Preparing all supporting documentation for yearly audit up to financial statement including.

Remuneration

R35k to R45k CTC depending on experience

Only candidates with relevant experience and requirements will be shortlisted and contacted.

Start Date

*Priority Posiiton*

Consideration

Candidates, who are already residing in the Western Cape will have preference. We can only consider South African Citizens or applicants who hold a valid South African Permanent Residence! No Work Permit applications will be accepted! Applicants, who live in other provinces of South Africa still need to attend personal interviews and if requested to do any cook-offs, will do so completely at their own expense. We handle high volumes of applications daily and will only be able to reply, via e-mail, to candidates who have met our clients’ requirements.

Due to the high volume of CV’s received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

All applications submitted must contain:

• Updated CV with contactable references
• Tertiary Educational documents
• Written Reference Letters
• A recent presentable profile photo’s
• Chefs: 6-8 Food profile photos produced by yourself or in conjunction with the team

How to apply

Email us at info@pmrecruitment.co.za

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