Financial Manager - East Rand, JHB - BCom Accounting

Financial Manager BCom Accounting

ROLE OVERVIEW:

As a Financial Manager, you will be joining a driven and collaborative team within an exciting start up organisation in the subscription rental sector. You will play a critical role in safeguarding the financial integrity and profitability of our business by ensuring accurate accounting and operational involvement in the business.

This is a high-impact role suited for a commercially focused finance manager who thrives in a fast-paced, high potential environment.

As this company is a new start up, it will include some operations duties including fleet management , collections (non-paying customers), vehicle recovery and maintenance etc.

Duties:

Track accounting, change orders and customer invoicing to align recognised revenue with actual delivery progress. Ensuring the integrity of the inputs and outputs

Monitor and analyse actual costs against budgets provided by project managers.

Review of cost centre and general ledger. Ensure data is properly matched to the correct cost centres and GL accounts.

Review and report gross margins per month, identifying trends, risks, and corrective actions.

Working Capital Management and Forecasting

Maintain accurate records of inventory transactions and valuations

Analysis of debtors aging and related accounts

Release of supplier payments along with relevant supporting documents

Responsible for maintaining costs and working capital forecasts

Reporting, Compliance & Controls

Review of management accounts and reconciliations

Review of income tax and deferred tax calculations

Respond to SARS queries and audits

Prepare accurate month-end reports and dashboards for finance and executive management.

Ensure all accounting practices adhere to internal controls, finance policies, and audit requirements.

Maintain financial documentation to support audits and board-level reporting.

Ad hoc requests from departments for info, explanations, help, support etc

QUALIFICATIONS and EXPERIENCE:

BCom Accounting or similar requires

Minimum 3 years experience in senior accountant / financial manager position

Understanding in operational finance, accountancy and good notions of company and tax laws is an advantage

PREFERRED SKILLS:

Strong accounting skills

High attention to detail and organisational skills.

Intermediate to Advanced Excel and/or Sage / Pastel skills (or similar)

Strong communication and customer engagement skills

Ability to work collaboratively and operationally with cross-functional teams.

Strong ethical standards and integrity.

Pro-active and able to work independently with a drive to learn, grow and make valuable contribution

Ability to work under pressure, and adhere to timelines

Salary: +- R50 000pm CTC