Financial Accountant

Job Description

We are looking for a Financial Accountant in Cape Town to join a well established, dynamic and hyper growth company within their logistics and group finance teams. We are looking for a qualified or part qualified CA(SA) / CIMA candidate, who is prepared to be challenged, and ideally has experience within the supply chain space. This is a hybrid working position, where you will be expected to work in office 4 days per week in the CBD.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a Finance Business Partner
• Support the co-ordination and preparation of budgets, financial forecasts and actual vs budget cost tracking
• Recommendation and Implementation of financial processes, improvement measures and Internal Control procedures
• Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls
• Continuous improvement and insurance reporting, automation of reporting and building robust financial models and processes that aid decision making
• Analyse and identify data sets required to support model tracking
• Engage with different business stakeholders on project initiatives, costs analysis etc
• Month end reporting - Prepare monthly management accounts and cost centre reports (Actual vs. Budget) and distribute to stakeholders; reporting on variances, performance indicators, trends and financial ratios
• Preparing & reviewing of monthly B/S recons
• Monitor, prepare and report on capital expenditure (Actual vs Budget, Capex Utilisation and Return on Investment) per project
• Monitor all delivery costs and volumes, investigate variances
• Expense and cost centre allocation and purchase order approval management and tracking
• Maintaining insurance register
• Managing junior staff

Requirements:

• BCom (Hons) / BCom (Logistics) / BCom (Finance) 
• Completed articles / CA(SA) / part CIMA qualified 
• Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience in a similar role / environment (within Supply chain)
• Logistics, Distribution Centre exposure would be preferred
• Computer skills: Advanced Excel and Google Sheets

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