Key Roles and Responsibilities :
- Implement, control, and monitoring of periodic compliance testing.
- Actively support the management of overall financial forecasting processes.
- Review financial records to ensure they comply with company policies and accounting principles.
- Undertake a regular review of the accuracy of regulatory calculations and submissions.
- Experience working
- Reconcile accounts, resolve discrepancies, and collaborate across various finance and non-finance functions.
- Analyze journals, produce data analysis and reports and assist with variance analysis.
- Assemble the annual audit information for external auditors.
- As a partner in the accounting process, recommend how to improve efficiency using automation.
- Analyze past performance financial data and prepare budgets and forecasts for business unit management.
- Implement effective financial controls, including systems reconciliations and ensuring the integrity of reported figures.
- Proactively supports the activities of the accounts receivable function within the assigned business unit.
- Process month-end activities which include the preparation and processing of month-end journal entries, processing loan and bank account entries and reconciling these accounts, and executing a variety of actions in the accounting system.
- Perform cash management activities and produce the bank reconciliations for company bank accounts and process all the necessary bank account entries required.
- Regular review tax calculations and reports to ensure compliance including determining and managing sales tax compliance.
- Review the credit vetting process by ensuring that new accounts are opened in line with financial procedures.
Knowledge, Skills, and Attributes :
- Good communication skills (verbal and written)
- Good interpersonal skills
- Ability to self-manage
- Display good planning and organizing ability
- Demonstrate good attention to detail
- Deadline driven individuals who contribute to the success of the team
- Able to cope with stressful situations
- Able to deal with different individuals at all levels in the organization
- Take own initiative and have a solutions-orientated approach
- Maintain a high standard of accuracy and quality
- Proactive approach with the ability to think ahead in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to work independently and be a knowledge expert
- Strong analytical skills, and an ability to understand underlying business drivers and provide actionable insights based on your analysis.
- Sound and proven working knowledge of accounting practices and principles
- Knowledge and prior exposure to international entities, foreign currency, and inter-company transactions
- Extensive knowledge tax legislative requirements locally, and in international jurisdictions
Academic Qualifications and Certifications :
General Qualification in Accounting (Degree)
Required Experience :
- Demonstrated experience in a similar position in a related environment with accounting software
- Extensive experience within finance in a company with international operations
What will make you a good fit for the role?