Are you a sharp, motivated finance professional looking to make an impact in a fast-growing, purpose-driven company? Our client is looking for a Financial Accountant to join their team. This is your opportunity to contribute to a business with operations across multiple geographies while developing your career in a fast-paced and ambitious environment.

Reporting to the Senior Financial Accountant, this role is central to ensuring accurate financial reporting, meeting tax and statutory requirements, and playing a key role in various finance improvement initiative

Duties and Responsibilities

• Oversee and review the bank reconciliations prepared by the bookkeepers.
• Ensure that all transactions processed in the general ledger for entities under your remit are valid, accurate and complete.
• Ensure that month-end financial packs including balance sheet reconciliations are prepared for the review of the Senior Financial Accountant within the stipulated deadlines.
• Preparation of accurate journals and monthly reconciliations with third party pay-in and pay-out partners.
• Assist the Group Tax team with the preparation of timely and accurate tax submissions for the entities under your remit.
• Assistance in the delivery of the year-end audit including drafting the statutory financial statements for review by the Senior Financial Accountant and Group Reporting Manager.
• Preparation of various other statutory or regulatory returns for the entities under your remit.
• Involvement in various finance improvement projects, including system implementations, month end process efficiencies, new market expansion and business maturity workstreams.
• Internal liaison with other departments to assist in solving commercials issues as they arise.

Key requirements

• Accounting degree (essential)
• Studying towards CA (SA), CIMA or SAIPA qualification (preferable)
• 2-3 years’ experience in a financial environment or completed articles (essential)
• Experience of multi-national Groups structures, preferably across the African continent and/or the UK (preferable)
• Finance business systems experience across ERP platforms, preferably Netsuite
• Experience in preparing VAT and Corporate tax returns which will be delivered in conjunction with the internal Tax function (preferable)
• Experience working in financial services or highly regulated industries beneficial (preferable)
• Experience working in high growth/fast-moving organisations (preferable)
• Advanced time management and organisational skills (essential)
• Advanced MS Office skills (essential)

Additional skills

• Passionate and enjoys working in a fast-paced, informal but extremely ambitious company.
• Hands-on self-starter
• Ability to work under pressure, commercial acumen, and capable of linking the role to shareholder value creation / profitability.
• Keen to be part of a multi-cultural organisation that is committed to excellence, inclusion, diversity, community development and the environment.
• Ability to look for efficiencies and improvements in any process rather than just accept the status quo.