Junior Financial Manager - Must have SAICA Articles

South Africa's leading health and wellness retailer. We believe in pure, natural goodness - plain and simple. We aim to partner with you on your unique wellness journey while honouring people and the planet in all that we do.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS:

Areas of responsibility:

1. In respect of financial process and controls:
2. Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls
3. Ensure that the company’s financial systems are robust, compliant and support current activities as well as future growth ambitions
4. Constantly investigate process improvement
5. Oversight of all transactional activities (accounts payable and accounts receivable)
6. Maintain financial records and GL accounts
7. Monthly journal entry processing
8. Drive month-end and year-end close procedures
9. Deliver a clean and accurate trail balance at month end for review by senior staff
10. Oversight of feasibilities for new stores and store closures
11. Developing reports and analytical insights to inform the business and to drive business improvement opportunities
12. Identification of opportunities for working capital improvements
13. Preparation of accurate monthly management accounts within committed reporting timetable
14. Reporting on variances on actuals vs budget income and expenditure
15. Assist in the preparation of board packs
16. Drive the annual budgeting process, ensuring on-time and accurate delivery in accordance with set timelines
17. Responsibility for the management of property leases for the business
18. Monitoring and maintenance of fixed asset register
19. Review large overdue accounts and work on /propose plans to drive collections
20. Drive visibility of inventory, accounts payable and cash collections performance
21. Prepare cash flow forecasts and cash flow maintenance, ensuring that the company has sufficient cash available to meet its commitments
22. Loading of payment on to bank
23. Engage in ongoing cost reduction analysis in all areas of the company
24. Provide monthly analysis of variable and fixed expenses and provide recommendations to management to improve profitability
25. Accurate and on-time statutory return submissions
26. Ensure that regulatory requirements of all statutory bodies are met in respect of the year-end audit:
27. Liaise with external auditors
28. Coordinate the audit process
29. Oversee the preparation of audit files and provide assistance where required
30. Ensure delivery of unqualified annual financial statements within committed timelines
31. Management of the day-to-day finance function and finance team
32. Ensuring that the finance team is made up of the right calibre of people to deliver on the finance function’s strategic priorities
33. Review of all underlying team work including debtors cycle/creditors cycle/bank etc.
34. Keeping abreast of latest SARS/IFRS developments
35. Review and sign off of monthly payroll
36. Assist the senior financial management with ad hoc tasks/projects as and when required
37. Maintain relationships with the company’s bankers and financiers
38. Legal related issues, trademark registrations and renewals and company secretarial matters
39. Tax compliance (VAT and income tax returns) as well as identifying tax planning opportunities
40. Responsible for the IR function within the business

JOB SPECIFICATIONS:

1. 5 years previous financial management experience
2. Fully qualified CA(SA) or equivalent – min requirement is B.Com + completed articles
3. Previous experience in managing a finance team
4. Strong working knowledge of MS Office Suite, specifically MS Excel
5. Medium or large scale recognised ERP experience (Sage, SAP, netsuite)
6. Payroll administration
7. SARS reporting
8. Management reporting

ATTRIBUTES:

1. Strong technical ability, accounting knowledge through to AFS
2. Strong leadership skills
3. Strong communication and presentation skills – both written and verbal
4. Deep understanding of business principles and practices
5. Integrity and honesty
6. Ability to take ownership and work responsibility
7. Mature, trustworthy and ethical
8. Ability to work well in a team environment
9. Good time management skills
10. An enquiring and curious mindset with an attitude of continual improvement and a desire to add value
11. The ability to understand and evaluate detail but equally being able to actively participate in strategic discussions
12. Energetic, hands-on, high-quality standards and a result oriented individual

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: R50000,00 - R60000,00 per month