Financial Controller

Port Elizabeth - Our client in the FMCG sector seeks to employ a Financial Controller (Operations).
Requirements:

- Matric / Tertiary qualification in accounting or finance

- SAIPA/CIMA or similar an advantage

- 3 – 5 years’ experience in a similar role supervising a team of clerks
- Min. Intermediate Excel Skills Experience on systems such as Pastel / Syspro

- Experience reviewing and reconciling General Ledger accounts

Duties:

Leadership:
- Successfully lead and motivate a team of clerks.

- Strive towards creating a work environment where clerks can achieve goals and meet objectives.

- Oversee a team of clerks handling creditors, debtors and inventory functions.

Debtors:
- Ensure that all processing is correctly captured in Pastel/Syspro.

- Review of weekly age analysis for all entities before submission to management.

- Ensure that clerks are meeting collection objectives.

- Assist clerks with queries when required.
Creditors:

- Ensure that all processing is correctly captured in Pastel/Syspro.

- Review of weekly age analysis for all entities before submission to management.

- Ensure that clerks meet reconciliation deadlines.
- Review all recons before submission to managemen.

Inventory:

- Ensure that all stock movement is correctly recorded.

- Ensure that stock is correctly balanced on a weekly basis.
- Assist the clerks with queries when required.

- Ensure that inventory costings are accurately calculated.

Account Queries:

- Ensure that all queries on the accounts are kept to a minimum by assisting the clerks where required.
- Assist clerks with reconciliations when required.

Recon tracking and cashflow:

- Maintain the recon management dashboard.

- Assist with cashflow management for various entities.
Reporting:

- Compile weekly management dashboards for each entity.

- Compile weekly/monthly reporting requested by management.

New Employees:
- Assist in the training of new employees added to team when required.

Ad-Hoc:

- General ad-hoc duties as requested by management from time to time.

- All and any other related tasks and duties as required by the Employer from time to time.