FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT (Retail / Franchise / FMCG industry) - EE Only

Recruiter:

Hr Legend

Job Ref:

ACC - TB

Date posted:

Friday, March 11, 2022

Location:

CapeTown, South Africa

Salary:

Market related salary package

SUMMARY:
We are recruiting for a qualified Accountant with relevant experience in any of the following industries - Retail / FMCG / Franchise industry. We can only accept Employment Equity candidates for this role.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT (Retail / Franchise / FMCG industry) - EE Only
Cape Town
The position reports to the Financial Manager

Your responsibilities will include:

Develop, adapt and implement new processes and procedures as well as the maintenance thereof, to integrate the marketplace business unit into new/existing ERP system.
Work closely with Product and Development teams to align business requirements
Ownership of the finance project and ensuring predefined outcomes are met
Own the daily transactional processing of all transactions, end to end
Implement, controls and measurements to mitigate financial risk within a hyper-growth environment
Continuous implementation of automated processes to scale with business needs
Work closing with internal and external stakeholders, to align on single processes and procedures relating to the business unit
Managing the efficiency and effectiveness of the financial aspects of the seller onboarding and maintenance process, including continuing development of the process at scale
Full ownership of the payment cycle to ensure complete and accurate payments processing of Marketplace sellers
Resolving non-routine seller queries
Preparation and reporting of business unit KPI
Quality review of monthly seller reconciliations, including management and control aging
Month-end procedures and reporting (income statement + balance sheet + operational reporting)
Additional ad hoc duties, as required within the business
Work with operations- and compliance departments to manage finance-related risk.
Work closely with internal business stakeholders, including Retail, Marketplace, Supply Chain, Logistics and Engineering
Ad-hoc requests from CFO and Finance Managers

Qualifications:

Relevant B.com degree- Honours would be advantageous
SAICA / SAIPA articles - advantage
3 – 5 Years relevant experience in a similar finance role
Industry Exposure - Retail / FMCG / Franchise industries
Proven experience in implementing systems/processes to mitigate financial risk
High proficiency in advanced Excel
MySQL/Looker/Qliksense experience advantageous

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