Accountant (Temporary)

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:

To ensure financial data is kept up to date by booking, reconciling accounts and preparing the necessary reports.

Key Responsibilities:

• • Booking of trade and non-trade related expenses.
  • Fixed Assets: creation, booking, disposal, depreciation and tagging
  • Perform Fixed asset yearly physical count
  • Capex tracking for all retail stores
  • Capex Request (CAR) handling and submission
  • Approving and checking T&E expenses submitted through Concur
  • Enforcing the T&E policy and ensure company compliance 
  • Employee Vendor account reconciliations and clearing
  • Providing detailed review of Travel allowances per department on monthly basis
  • Support in annual external audit
  • Payroll accounting and reconciliations
  • Business Amex administrator for any amendments or setup requirements.
  • Petty cash handling and booking for (Finance, HR and facilities) and cash counts.
  • Monthly Balance sheet reconciliations
  • IFRS 16 valuations and reconciliation for leases
  • Reconciliation of intercompany accounts and run payments for related parties
  • Ad-hoc requests for general accounting

Controlling:

• • Measure progress on own KPIs.
  • Monitor all allocated reports.
  • Ensures adherence to group accounting policies and procedures.

KPI’s:

• Data Accuracy
• Policy Enforcement
• Time management

Key Relationships:

• All local departments
• Retail Stores
• FP& A Team

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

IT skills

• Outlook: intermediate
• Word: intermediate
• Excel: advanced
• PowerPoint: basic
• SAP: basic/intermediate experience is preferred.

Language skills

English (written and verbal)

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in finance, preferably ACCA or CA
• Ideally with a qualified accounting/audit background
• 2-3 years of accounting experience