Senior Accountant

Job Holder

Job Title Senior Accountant

Business Unit Finance Department

Geographic Location Parktown, Johannesburg

Name & Title of Direct Superior Finance Manager

Number of Immediate Subordinates/ Direct Reports None

You will play a key role in ensuring the accuracy and integrity of financial transactions, maintaining compliance with accounting standards, and contributing to the overall financial health of the organization.

The Senior Accountant will work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and provide valuable insights for strategic decision-making.

• - Prepare accurate monthly management accounts, including income statements, balance sheets, cash flow statements and supporting schedules.
• - Analyse financial performance against budgets, forecasts and prior periods, providing clear explanations and actionable insights.
• - Ensure financial reporting is accurate, complete and submitted within agreed deadlines.

• - Coordinate month-end and year-end closing processes, including journals, accruals, provisions and balance-sheet reconciliations.
• - Prepare audit schedules and support internal and external audit processes.
• - Investigate and resolve outstanding balances and reconciling items.

• - Maintain the accuracy and completeness of the general ledger and supporting ledgers, including creditors, debtors, inventory, fixed assets and intercompany accounts.
• - Perform regular reconciliations and resolve discrepancies promptly.
• - Ensure transactions are recorded against the correct company, department, account and reporting period.

• - Assist with the preparation and consolidation of annual departmental budgets, forecasts and cash flow projections.
• - Analyse actual performance against budget and support departments in understanding and managing variances.
• - Ensure budgets reflect approved sales, pricing, cost, headcount and operational assumptions.

• - Prepare and process local and foreign supplier payment batches in accordance with approved payment terms and authority levels.
• - Review supplier reconciliations and resolve payment, invoice and stock receipt queries.
• - Ensure payments are supported by valid documentation and appropriate approvals.

• - Reconcile stock receipts, purchase orders, supplier invoices and third-party warehouse records.
• - Ensure inventory and landed costs are accurately recorded and valued in accordance with approved accounting policies.
• - Monitor stock in transit, inventory provisions, slow-moving and expired stock, and investigate stock discrepancies.

• - Maintain approved product pricing, including SEP updates, tender prices, customer price lists and related system changes.
• - Verify that approved pricing changes are correctly implemented across the ERP, IHS and other relevant systems.
• - Support new product launches through product costing, margin analysis, master-data setup, budgeting and finance readiness checks.

• - Maintain effective financial controls over payments, inventory, pricing, journals and master-data changes.
• - Support statutory, internal, external and B-BBEE audits by preparing accurate schedules and supporting documentation.
• - Assist with the maintenance of finance policies, standard operating procedures and audit action plans.

• - Maintain complete supporting documentation for foreign payments, imports and foreign currency transactions.
• - Reconcile supplier invoices, payments, shipments and customs documentation,…