Our client is searching for a Management Accountant

Key Performance Areas
Month End Reporting:
• Overall management of the month-end reporting process, ensuring all agreed timelines are strictly adhered to
• Responsible for ensuring the accuracy and integrity of the reported month-end results
• Reviewing and interrogation of monthly management accounts, ensuring that any review comments raised on the management accounts are appropriately investigated and timeously resolved
• Respond promptly to any queries raised by the business / finance manager / finance director on the management accounts
• Perform analytical testing to determine reasonability of results
• Perform reconciliations to source data to determine the integrity of results
• Investigate anomalies and unusual trends which differ to analytical trends/forecast/comparative period results
• Ensure accurate management accounts are issued to the business by the monthly deadlines
• Ensure timely completion of the management accounts cash flow report by the monthly agreed deadlines
• Ensure reports are considered and updated to comply with and address business needs
• Liaise with various departments to ensure timely and accurate information is received for input into the management reports
• Attend monthly management account meetings with the various business units to discuss queries and address action points
• Preparation of Executive Summary, providing sufficient insight to the activities for the reporting period
• Continuously work at improving reporting deadlines and qualitative value of management accounts and supporting schedules to better meet the needs of the various business units

Review of Journals:
• Review and interrogate reports received from 3rd parties, which are used as part of the month end journal raising process
• Review journals performed by accountant as part of the month end process
• Ensure journals are filed monthly together with the appropriate source documentation
• Review of month end reconciliations
• Reconciliations are completed on a monthly basis by the agreed deadline dates
• Reconciliations are appropriately reconciled to general ledger balances
• Ensure that queries / reconciling items arising from the reconciliation process are properly investigated and promptly resolved
• Ensure sign-off as evidence of review/preparation

Annual Report and Audit:
• Prepare the annual financial statements
• Ensure that an accurate complete audit file is prepared for audit
• Assist auditors and ensure that all audit work is completed and audit clearance on profit figures are signed off by the agreed deadline date



Tax Compliance:
• Preparation of a timeous and accurate tax calculation in terms of the relevant tax acts
• Preparation of the following SARS returns: IRP6, IT14R, IT14SD, VAT201
• Review and submission of the following SARS returns: EMP201
• Preparation of all SARS supporting schedules and submission of supporting schedules to SARS as requested
• Reviewing the apportionment of VAT for entities earning vattable income < 95%
• Assistance with all SARS adhoc requests or queries

Mentoring and Management of Staff:
• Review work of all direct reports to ensure all work is up to date and properly completed, including
• Exercise appropriate planning to ensure that staff deadlines for management reports are met
• Provide on the job training to ensure the on-going development of staff within your team
• Demonstrate an ability to develop effective teams, drive efficiencies and always lead by example
• Ensure that all direct reports have KPA's in place against which to manage performance levels
• Ensure that all direct reports have development plans in place which appropriately identifies areas of personal and professional development goals.
• Provide regular feedback to all direct reports on their performance

Adhoc activities:
• Perform any investigations requested by the financial manager or finance director
• Prepare any adhoc reports as requested by the financial manager or finance director
• Assist the financial manager in the implementation of any new processes / controls within the department
• Complete any forms / returns as requested by the financial manager or finance director
• Preparation of any schedules required as part of the year end audit process
• Manage daily cash balances and ensure that all payments are submitted and appropriately authorized
• Checking and release of supplier payments
• Respond to any requests for the performance of ad-hoc projects
• Submission of annual compliance reports/renewals (NCR, IGF)

Requirements:
• Bachelor of Commerce or relevant accounting qualification
• Member of a professional institution such as Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)
• Minimum of 3 to 5 years’ experience in an accountant role
• Previous experience in management accounts
• Working knowledge of accounting
• Knowledge of automated financial and accounting reporting systems
• Previous working experience in retail /financial services would be advantageous

Salary: Market related

Note; correspondence will only be made with candidates that are shortlisted for this post. If you have not received any feedback within 6 weeks of your application; please consider your application as unsuccessful.