Introduction
Assistant Financial Accountant

4 Month contract

Cape Town

Financial Reporting

• Compiles and populates records to trial balance level.
• Prepares draft income statement and balance sheet.

Reconciliations

• Ensures accurate reconciliations are done and followed up.
• Reviews control accounts and reconciliations.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Perform journals from bank statement movements and other sources
• Processes journal entries in relation to these entities, timeously and accurately.
• Performs calculations to determine financial transactions required
• Ensures that the financial records, including the trail balance is valid, accurate and complete.
• Performs inter-company reconciliations and confirmation of balances, and corrects mismatches timeously.
• Reconciliation of all Balance sheet accounts, including bank account, ensuring that reconciling items are constantly monitored and actioned, and that there are no long outstanding reconciling items.
• Follows up on long outstanding debt owed to and by the business unit
• Prepares documentation for payments on behalf of entities
• Prepares, and submits within agreed deadlines:
  • HFM Submissions (Monthly, Half Yearly, Annually)
  • Disclosure submissions
  • Analytical Reviews
  • Tax packs
  • CFO sign off
• Assist with preparation of business plan and quarterly forecasts
• Produces Balance sheet reports
• Prepare VAT calculation
• Complete VAT and Tax submissions
• Assist with preparation of the annual financial statements and running of audits until completion
• Compile monthly management accounts including analytical commentary

Desired Experience & Qualification

• Finance related qualification
• 3-5 years' relevant finance experience

• Oracle and HFM knowledge would be a distinct advantage

• Transactional Accounting
• Professional Accounting Standards
• Financial Reporting
• Business Planning, Forecasting and Budgeting
• Financial and Variance Analysis
• Internal Control & Risk Management
• Taxation Statutory Returns 29.11lo

Package & Remuneration
Negotiable