Financial Accountant

Responsible for assisting and supporting the reporting related to operations. Preparing accounts, budgets and forecasts and managing financial information.

Essential Functions

• Assisting with month end reporting in HFM:
• Closing consolidation of all operations
• Drafting monthly consolidation journals
• Ensuring Group intercompany balances are in balance
• Attend to reporting related queries
• Liaising with operations
• Attend to HY and YE reporting
• Give training as and when required to operations
• Ensure IFRS compliance as well as good corporate governance by operations

• Assisting with financial / accounting compliance, proper internal control and reporting of head office and development assets:
• Suggest and implement updates and improvements processes, and identify areas of optimisation
• Ensure IFRS compliance as well as good corporate governance
• Closing and reporting of monthly accounts
• Drafting of month end journals
• Intercompany recharges to operations including assistance with queries pertaining to monthly transactions passed with sites
• Ensure intercompany balances are in balance
• Manage fixed asset registers
• Liaising with tax department to address SARS related queries
• Submission of balance sheet reconciliations monthly
• Assistance with preparation of cash call
• Assistance with ad hoc preparation of presentations and summaries when required
• Assistance with preparation of annual budgets and forecasts
• Assistance with HY and YE reporting
• Assistance with external audits, and preparation of financial statements

• Identify and drive process improvements, including the creation of standard and ad-hoc reports, tools, Excel dashboards, automated reporting tools to increase efficiency and productivity
• Ad hoc tasks / projects required by management
• Administrative tasks