Financial Accountant

An awesome opportunity exists for an energetic, highly motivated Finance Professional to join our team as Financial Accountant, reporting to the Senior Financial Accountant. The role is responsible for producing valid, accurate, and complete financial reporting for the operating entities within their remit, including preparing and submitting various statutory and tax obligations in those geographies.

Internal liaison takes place with the accounts team and payroll, as well as other non-finance functions to increase the value Finance contributes to the organisation. External liaison takes place with 3rd party consultants as well as the tax authorities across the regions in which Mukuru trades.

Duties and Responsibilities (include but is not limited to):

• Oversee and review the bank reconciliations prepared by the bookkeepers.
• Ensure that all transactions processed in the general ledger for entities under your remit are valid, accurate and complete.
• Ensure that month-end financial packs including balance sheet reconciliations are prepared for the review of the Senior Financial Accountant within the stipulated deadlines.
• Preparation of accurate journals and monthly reconciliations with third party pay-in and pay-out partners.
• Assist the Group Tax team with the preparation of timely and accurate tax submissions for the entities under your remit.
• Assistance in the delivery of the year-end audit including drafting the statutory financial statements for review by the Senior Financial Accountant and Group Reporting Manager.
• Preparation of various other statutory or regulatory returns for the entities under your remit.
• Involvement in various finance improvement projects, including system implementations, month end process efficiencies, new market expansion and business maturity workstreams.
• Internal liaison with other departments to assist in solving commercials issues as they arise.

Key requirements

• Accounting degree (essential)
• Studying towards CA (SA), CIMA or SAIPA qualification (preferable)
• 2-3 years’ experience in a financial environment or completed articles (essential)
• Experience of multi-national Groups structures, preferably across the African continent and/or the UK (preferable)
• Finance business systems experience across ERP platforms, preferably Netsuite
• Experience in preparing VAT and Corporate tax returns which will be delivered in conjunction with the internal Tax function (preferable)
• Experience working in financial services or highly regulated industries beneficial (preferable)
• Experience working in high growth/fast-moving organisations (preferable)
• Advanced time management and organisational skills (essential)
• Advanced MS Office skills (essential)

Additional skills

• Shares a passion for Mukuru’s purpose and enjoys working in a fast-paced, informal but extremely ambitious company.
• Hands-on self-starter, who knows what to do without being told, with a no-nonsense ‘get it done attitude’, quickly diagnosing issues, proposing and executing solutions in a short timeframe.
• Ability to work under pressure, commercial acumen, and capable of linking the role to shareholder value creation / profitability.
• Keen to be part of a multi-cultural organisation that is committed to excellence, inclusion, diversity, community development and the environment.
• Ability to look for efficiencies and improvements in any process rather than just accept the status quo.

If you do not receive any response after two weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.

NB: ALL STAFF APPOINTMENTS WILL BE MADE WITH DUE CONSIDERATION OF THE COMPANY’S DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION PLANS