Financial Accountant

Are you ready to embark on an exciting career journey? We are seeking a proactive and skilled Financial Accountant to join our Sunsail and The Moorings finance team in Cape Town. This role plays a crucial part in our revenue and intercompany team, with responsibilities that include managing intercompany transactions across various legal entities and jurisdictions, as well as ensuring timely and accurate reporting and forecasting of customer receipts!

At The Moorings and Sunsail, we plan and deliver fantastic yacht charters across the world.

We have an abiding passion for sailing, taking yachting holidays to the next level across the most spectacular destinations worldwide which keep our customers coming back again and again! From independent sailing holidays to fully catered crewed and power yacht charters we offer our customers a range of product options, and most importantly an unforgettable experience.

The secret to our success within the yacht industry lies in our exceptional teams, we are united by the same purpose, to have fun while creating extraordinary experiences on the water.

What you will be doing:
Revenue & related expenses

• Forecast customer receipts and provide weekly reporting of charter receipts vs monthly forecast and weekly cash forecast
• Providing analysis of variances
• Monitoring and reporting of overdue customer receipts providing weekly reporting by sales office
• Monitoring and reporting of customer agent relationships, terms and collections, including liaising with agents where required
• Understanding of and recognition of quality expenses, working with the customer care team where applicable
• Raising payment requests and performing reconciliations for pass through revenue to a number of locations
• Preparation of revenue related KPI's as required

Intercompany

• Review and approve global intercompany transactions, ensuring they are in-line with global transfer pricing policies and relevant back up is provided as required (including but not limited to proof of export, underlying supplier invoices, calculations)
• Assist with resolution of intercompany mismatches
• Lead on monthly global intercompany settlement process
• Provide validation / reconciliation for intercompany confirmations for audit as required

Other

• Insurance balance sheet account management, including raising of accruals and releasing of pre-payments as required
• Working with the US tax director and Senior Financial Accountant Tax and Regulatory Reporting on providing information required for the US tax returns relating to intercompany transactions and customer deposits.

What we are looking for:

• Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, or ACA) ideally with experience in the hospitality sector
• Proficient in intercompany transactions, including the management, recording, and reconciliation of transactions between entities. This includes expertise in transfer pricing, foreign currency translations, and elimination of intercompany balances during consolidation
• Skilled in working capital management with an emphasis on customer receipts
• Advanced Excel proficiency, with strong skills in VLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH, pivot tables, macros, and complex formulas
• Meticulous attention to detail and highly analytical, with strong financial modeling abilities to process and summarise large datasets
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience with Dynamics or SAP is beneficial but not essential
• Capable of thriving in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple tasks and projects simultaneously
• A positive, proactive individual with a can-do attitude who brings energy to the team and excels in collaboration

Join us and in return you will be rewarded with:

• Competitive salary
• 21 days annual leave
• Medical aid, Life insurance and Pension
• Wider scope for learning, working with teams across the world
• Travel benefits and retail discounts

Our dedication to equity, diversity & inclusion
We believe people are happier and perform best when they are able to be their true self, and that diverse teams deliver better results.

Together we will cultivate a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment, where everyone can flourish. We are committed to inspiring change through increasing awareness of, and counteracting, unconscious bias; building an inclusive culture, and embracing diversity in all its dimensions.

Travelopia is committed to ensuring a work environment that is open, accessible, and inclusive, removing barriers for all individuals. If you require accommodations to participate in the recruitment and selection process, kindly inform us. Our hiring team will work with you to provide suitable accommodations in a timely and confidential manner. Information received will be handled with the utmost discretion.

To request accommodations, please contact our team at Talent@Travelopia.com

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