Assistant Financial Accountant
Description
- To ensure general correctness of the accounts by processing corrective and recurring standard monthly journal as required to comply with Treasury, PFMA and GRAP regulations and other month end journals required by business, e.g.BSC purposes, stats journals for volumes purposes, etc. and ensure that manual accruals and provisions are accurately calculated and recorded in oracle
- To ensure data integrity on the General Ledger through the maintenance of system transaction in order to enforce the Financial Department's SOPs
- To facilitate the yearend audit process to ensure that audit deadlines are always met by preparing the audit file and attending to audit queries
- To resolve all problems / queries raised by internal customers and resolve them taking cognizance of the culture of the business, following protocols and making sure that relevant people are informed all the time so as all the issues are resolved leaving no loose ends
- To assist with month end processes and make sure that the deadlines should be adhered to strictly
- To ensure that the company reports in line with standards and legislation by doing General Ledger Reconciliations for all the applicable accounts, monitor and maintain the quality of reconciliations through making reference to AC statements, IFRS, GRAP, Treasury Regulations, PFMA, etc. and by resolving outstanding issues relating to reconciliations of general ledger accounts by liaising with relevant stakeholder on outstanding reconciliation items on the General Ledger and making sure that they are resolved timeously
- To ensure that month end deliverables are met for all items required, e.g preparation of various report as required by the Group Financial accountant, preparing flash reports for finance management (e.g. EC1-sustanability report, exceptional reports, etc.), sustainability report, General Ledger analysis performed for BSC purposes, etc. and general analytical reviews (231 General Ledger accounts) conducted to identify any obvious anomalies and raise them with the relevant custodians or correct them
- To ensure completion and submission of all statutory returns, e.g.Stats SA, Reserve Bank, VAT submissions, IRP6, IT14, etc. as required to comply with SARS, National Treasury and other relevant regulations
- To assist with Financial Accounting Projects, e.g. General Ledger maintenance, delegation of authority, etc. and to perform any ad hoc request and projects
- To assist Inventory and Fixed Asset controllers in resolving issues that they might have To act as the custodian of the General Ledger in the absence of the General Ledger controller
- To assist in maintaining the sound record keeping systems, audit trails to improve the quality and integrity of management information