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.