Job Description
- Perform month-end tasks such as reviewing adjustments, completing month-end closing procedures, and preparing reconciliations.
- Reconcile balance sheet accounts and address long-outstanding items.
- Maintain intercompany loan accounts.
- Oversee the hedging process according to AECI Treasury policy, ensuring all imports and exports are hedged weekly.
- Manage monthly management accounts for a portfolio of internal and external clients.
- Communicate with clients to gather required information for tasks and inform them of filing deadlines and obligations.
- Manage operators in various banking profiles, ensuring compliance with AECI Banking policy.
- Process EFT payments, including loading and releasing payments, managing non-vendor related payments in SAP, and handling cash book processing and bank reconciliations.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to address operational-level service delivery concerns.
- Ensure compliance with IFRS legislation.
- Identify internal control weaknesses and assist with implementing improvements.
- Review audit instructions and prepare supporting documents for audits.
- Resolve audit queries and liaise with internal/external auditors as needed.
- Adhere to Safety, Health, and Environment (SHE) standards.
Qualifications & Experience
- BCom degree or equivalent (Honours is a plus).
- Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience as an accountant; articles experience is advantageous.
- Understanding of the manufacturing sector.
- Proficient in MS Office, with advanced skills in Excel and Word.
- Strong knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
- Experience with ERP systems, preferably SAP.
- Familiarity with systems, policies, and procedures.
- Understanding of regulatory, statutory, and compliance frameworks relevant to the role.
- Ability to extract and interpret system reports.
