Senior Accountant (Temp)

WE ARE HIRING A SENIOR ACCOUNTANT (TEMP)

Are you ready to join the world's premier MarTech solution?

TLC has become THE global MarTech solution to reward consumer behaviour with experiences. Now operating from 14 worldwide hubs, the TLC COSMOS Platform connects millions of consumers with over 150,000 experience reward venues. We trust in decades of proprietary data to ensure we offer the right experience to every individual.

In 2024, TLC formed a strategic partnership with BD-Capital, a private equity firm. The collaboration provides both financial backing and strategic guidance, fueling TLC's mission to enhance its market leadership and expand its global footprint in data-driven loyalty solutions.

At TLC, we know that experiences make life more rewarding!

We are looking for innovative, passionate and caring people to join our team and help us continue to build our success story!

Role Description

A great opportunity to work for a successful company within a very busy Finance Department with defined routes for career progression. Involvement with all day-to-day functions within a busy Finance Department presents a challenging, hands-on role for a solid accountant who is keen to add value and achieve results. This is an exciting and challenging role which will entail reporting directly into the Finance Director based in Johannesburg.

The Management Accountant will work closely with the Finance, HR & Operations teams to provide information for decision making, ensure solid fundamentals, internal controls, and maintain up-to-date financials. This is a hands-on role where the successful candidate must be an effective communicator, technically strong, with a solid grasp of accounting principles, fundamentals, and the analytical skills to interpret complex data.

(Please note this is a 6-month contract)

Core Deliverables

• Annual preparation of budgets and forecasts, forecasting of cash flow monthly.
• Preparing and managing cash flow forecasts with regards to creditors payments.
• Analysing financial performance and identifying areas for improvement.
• Recommending methods and strategies for cutting costs and increasing profits.
• Advising on the financial implications of business decisions.
• Maintaining records and supporting auditing efforts.
• Applies costing methods to model and evaluate performance in his/her domain of activity (sales, marketing, OPEX).
• Oversee maintenance and vendor insurance and set up financial planning and results management.
• Assure compliance with financial auditing standards.
• Ensure the team adheres to the end-to-end accounts payable processes.
• Review existing procurement processes, drive increased efficiencies, and propose procedures and improvements of reporting for decision-making.
• Implementing and maintaining internal controls with regards to the creditors function, capturing, and reconciliations.
• Load supplier payments for authorization on online banking platform.
• Ensure the integrity of the Accounts Payable ledger.
• Receive supplier statements and reconcile them to the supplier ledger. Investigate and resolve discrepancies as necessary.
• Managing supplier relationships relative to payment.
• Ensure collaboration between internal departments as is necessary.
• Oversee the accurate and timely processing of invoices, ensuring they are captured correctly.
• Align with the Business team to understand cost drivers and define appropriate reports for tracking.
• Balance Sheet Reconciliations and other ad hoc activities.
• Develop proper process for key partners in terms of analyses and cadence.
• Obtaining and managing finance for projects.

Skills & Experience

• Experience gained within a similar role.
• Part qualified - ACCA, CIMA, CA (SA) or equivalent with a willingness to complete your qualification.
• Hardworking with a proactive approach.
• Working knowledge of Nav, Dynamic 365 would be advantageous but not essential.
• Proficient user of Excel (Essential).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Preferably has experience within public practice and/or working in an SME environment within marketing, advertising or PR.
• Excellent reporting skills and able to clearly present work that is easy to interpret and accurate.
• Experience of working in an unpredictable environment; can deal with unplanned changes to tasks and workloads and successfully handle several tasks at any one time.
• Commercial experience (Ability to negotiate favourable payment terms with clients and influencing the prices charged for specific campaigns).
• Sound technical knowledge.

Attitudes

• Motivated, enthusiastic and has a positive attitude to work.
• Excellent attention to detail, task driven, organised and has good problem-solving skills.
• Proactive and seeks to make improvements.
• Approachable, able to inspire confidence.
• Enthusiastic and has a positive attitude and takes pride in their work.
• Professional at all times.

Here's what we've got to offer:

• Dynamic & collaborative team.
• Creative work environment.
• Career progression and upskilling opportunities.
• Weekly Happy Hour.
• TLC Wellness.
• Global Clients & Team exposure.
• TLC 'Fun Club' & Social Calendar (known to include pizza deliveries!).
• TLC Gives Back - Charity partner/off site days.
• 'The Frankies' - Our very own awards/staff recognition event.

Being a people-led business, we hire upon values and believe that our people are what make the beloved TLC culture so unique.

At TLC we aim to create a ‘world within the world’ that is free from prejudice, bias and inequity.

A world where diversity is valued and celebrated, and where we work hard to ensure all our wonderful people are given equal opportunity to succeed.

If you are ready to be part of the TLC Worldwide success story, click to apply today!

We look forward to seeing your application!