Assistant Management Accountant
Port Shepstone – KwaZulu Natal – South Africa
Key Performance Areas:
- Managing business-related tasks and projects for the Directors, such as
- Researching data
- Ad hoc data analysis, reconciliation and reporting
- Analysing and verifying completeness and accuracy of data
- Preparing and/or collating data and reports, including financial and non-financial reports, communications and organograms
- Advising on the financial and non-financial implications of business decisions
- Working with management and all departments to ensure a full understanding of all areas of the business related to task and projects
- Assisting with evaluating policies and systems/processes, suggesting improvements where needed
- Project management
- Performing occasional bookkeeping functions
- Preparing certain recurring monthly reports, typically of a financial nature
- Accurately recording minutes from meetings where necessary
- Following up and dealing with tax documentation and payments of Directors personal tax
- Undertake other tasks as assigned.
Important to Note: Certain functions of this role require the attendance to fairly junior tasks, and other functions require higher skilled, more complex and independent approaches. You must be comfortable with and be able to pivot well between junior tasks, and higher-level critical tasks and projects.
Minimum Qualifications and Role-Specific Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, or a related field
- Previous experience (5 years minimum) in a financial role is essential
- Sound understanding of financial principles
- Proven record of sound implementation of business processes
- Excellent administrative skills
- Basic understanding of tax would be a benefit
- Advanced working knowledge of MS Office, specifically Excel
- Experience in Pastel would be advantageous.
Key Competencies and Personal Attributes
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Above average interpersonal skills
- Excellent analytical ability and multitasking
- Attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- Confidentiality, honesty and discretion are important attributes.
South Africa’s leading corporate player in the development and management of property and the leisure sector currently has the following opportunity. In accordance with the Employment Equity Plan of the Group, preference shall be given, but not limited to, candidates from the designated groups.
Ref# 12/07