‘UNi4 Global Edtech Centre Ongoing Job Recruitment

‘UNi4 Global Edtech Centre is the innovation home of UNi4 South Africa. UNi4 emerged from the visionary idea of creating a platfrom to enable the future of higher education and providing a collaborative space that acts as a launchpad for innovative ideas with global reach.’

Job Title: Financial Accountant
Location: Century City, Western Cape, South Africa
Reference: # FA#Uni4
Contract Type: Permanent

Specification
Supports financial decision-making information by collecting, analysing, investigating, and reporting financial data.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB:
•To ensure the efficient and effective functioning of the various people and processes within the finance department.
•Provide staff supervision and training.
•Preparation and processing of monthly journal entries and management accounts.
•Enforcing and implementation of policies and procedure

Staff Supervision:
•Provides leadership and direction to the Creditors /Bookkeepers / Cashbook.
•Meets weekly with staff to provide regular feedback on individual performance.
•Provides role clarity to staff and makes recommendations to the Financial Manager for tools to facilitate performance.
•Makes recommendations to Financial Manager on staff training and development plans.
•Acts as a Coach and Mentor to staff.

Monthly Reconciliations, Journal processing and Reporting on Management Accounts:
•Prepares and processes monthly revenue and debtors’ journal entries.
•Prepares and processes monthly salaries and wages journal entries.
•Prepares and processes month end journals, including deferred revenue and depreciation adjustments.
•Prepares other monthly balance sheet and income statement reconciliations.
•Reviews and authorises creditor reconciliations and payment requisitions on an ad-hoc basis.
•Maintains month end file with all relevant reconciliations and supporting documents.
•Completes all fixed asset transactions, including verifications, recording and updating of GL and FAR.
•Reviews Fixed Asset Register on a monthly basis.
•Completes all inventory transactions, including annual stock-counts, recording and updating of GL and stock-ledgers.

Budgeting, Monitoring and Control:
•Prepares information for year-end audit purposes.
•Prepares financials annually.
•Prepares budgets and forecasts.
•Oversees the functioning of the Bookkeeping function including review and authorisation of all reconciliations, schedules, invoices, journals etc prepared by the Bookkeeper.
•Ensures finance policies and procedures are adhered to by all individuals within finance and outside of finance.
•Provides ideas and feedback to help improve efficiencies in processes and procedures.
•Attends to ad-hoc requests and providing assistance in other areas which may not be directly part of job description above.
•Stands in for the Financial Manager when required to

Fixed Asset and Inventory Processing :
•Completes all fixed asset transactions, including verifications, recording and updating of GL and FAR.
•Processes Fixed Asset Register on a monthly basis.
•Completes all inventory transactions, including annual stock-counts, recording and updating of GL and stock-ledgers.

REQUIREMENTS OF THE JOB:
1.Degree with articles.
2.2-3 years’ relevant experience in accounting environment.
3.Pastel or ERP accounting experience / exposure.
4.Advanced Excel knowledge.

COMPETENCIES OF THE JOB:
1.Good Leadership skills. The ability to engage and motivate team members.
2.Technical acumen with a high degree of accuracy and analytical ability to identify trends.
3.Good Interpersonal skills at diverse levels.
4.Great attention to detail.
5.Ability to work in a Team.

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Application Deadline: 28/09/2020