Environmental Officer Production Grade A - C

Ensure the finance team is a strategic partner to the business. Fully responsible for ensuring accurate financial record keeping. Responsible for ensuring accurate reconciliations between operational and accounting systems and balance sheet reconciliations for all suppliers.

Supporting the year-end, interim, and all month-end processes and reporting. Responsible for supporting FA during the external audit process. Provide feedback and address audit points. Ensure applicable policies and processes are created, documented, reviewed, signed off, and adhered to.

Developing strategies to minimize financial risk. Support Financial Accountant in monitoring daily cash balances and determine cash requirements needed. Responsible for providing direction and support on the organisational budgeting process applicable to all the entities of the company.

Regularly review the overall organisational expenditure to ensure the expenditure of all entities remains within budget. Continued analysis and review of current and new systems. Report on and resolve exceptions caused by system errors. Action requests from the FA as requested.

Key Skills:

1. Advanced MS Excel skills
2. Numerical skills
3. High attention to detail (accuracy)
4. Ability to deal with complex information and requests
5. Must be able to work independently as well as part of a team
6. Balances team and individual responsibility
7. Provides and accepts feedback
8. Contributes to building a positive team
9. Places success of the team above own interests
10. Confident and enthusiastic self-starter who can take initiative
11. Action orientation and project management
12. Ability to work under own initiative without guidance
13. Copes well under sustained pressure
14. Ability to motivate self
15. Sets and achieves challenging goals
16. Demonstrate persistence
17. Overcomes obstacles
18. Interpersonal and relationship management skills
19. Ability to maintain confidentiality
20. Good time management
21. Organisation and administration skills
22. Planning and organising skills
23. Prioritises and plans work activities
24. Sets goals and objectives
25. Diagnostic, analytical & problem-solving skills
26. Information integration & report writing skills - responsible for collating information for reporting purposes
27. Resilience: Ability to work under pressure in a dynamic environment
28. Flexibility and adaptability

Qualifications:

1. BCom Accounting Degree or equivalent
2. Minimum 5 years of experience in a similar position if qualified or 8-10 years if not qualified
3. Previous experience in a multinational company will be advantageous
4. Good understanding of financial, tax, and commercial legislation across multiple African territories
5. Experience in Accounting Software and Payroll Software