Financial Manager (Financial Manager)

• Financial Manager of Company reporting directly to Financial & Managing Director
• Manage 4 junior accounting staff members who report directly
• Reviewing monthly expenses and drafting of monthly management accounts and group consolidations for entire group of Companies
• Directly responsible for obtaining figures from branches in Johannesburg, Durban & Port Elizabeth
• Reviewing and signing off all sub systems in the accounts on a monthly basis
• Responsible for reconciling all balance sheet accounts on a monthly basis
• Responsible for rolling forward accounting system into new month for processing purposes
• Responsible for importing of data from Crystal reports into excel and Pastel to calculate revenue and in turn manipulating these reports to generate accurate and complete reports to Finance Director
• Drafting of monthly management accounts and discussing with directors and shareholders on a monthly basis as well as reporting to holding Company in Belgium
• Monthly reporting to Directors and Shareholders on monthly management accounts
• Part signatory on all banking accounts for Company
• Responsible for signing off on EFT payments to creditors & other ad hoc payments
• Reviewing of creditor reconciliations on a monthly basis
• Reviewing and signing off all invoices on a daily basis to ensure accuracy and completeness
• Responsible for collection of monies from debtors on a monthly basis
• Responsible for dealing with bad debtors in form communicating with debtors via writing or phone calls, and in turn handing over of poor paying debtors to attorneys and ensuring that the process of debt collection in such form is complete and accurate.
• Responsible for maintaining, reconciliation and issuing payments from foreign bank accounts
• Costing of shipments
• Calculating and processing foreign exchange differences on a monthly basis
• Review and sign off on all project files opened for clients and closing off files once the entire project has been completed
• Liaison with overseas suppliers, reconciling of accounts on a monthly basis, and paying such accounts
• Review and authorise payments due for VAT, PAYE, UIF, and calculating these amounts on a monthly basis
• Responsible for managing Company’s cash flow, and reporting on Company’s cash flow on a daily basis & weekly basis
• Responsible for planning and drafting of cash flow forecasts for the month
• Responsible for annual Group audit, planning, liaising with auditors and dealing with queries
• Responsible for planning, updating, and reviewing of Company’s annual budgets and quarterly forecasts
• Responsible for calculation income tax liabilities and submitting to auditors to complete annual tax returns
• Responsible for all finance staff matters (authorising of leave etc)
• Responsible for hiring and dismissal of accounting staff
• Responsible for opening and closing offices on a daily basis
• Maintaining in house IT related queries and issues not required to be dealt with outside IT support Company (basic needs like network issues, purchasing of new PC’s etc)
• Maintenance of Omnix accounting system and network throughout Group. Ensuring maintenance of all databases
• Annual audit internal and external
• Monthly Management accounts, closing off figures, revenue calculations and reporting of figures to overseas shareholders on SAP and CPM systems
• Full accounting function from vouchers to GL, to TB to Management accounts

• The Financial Accountant is responsible for moderately complex accounting activities e.g., debtors, reconciliation of accounts and creditors, relating to the maintenance of a complete and accurate general ledger. Prepares managerial reports and financial statements.  The position is accountable for reporting costs, productivity, margins, and expenditures and offer financial recommendations.

Responsibilities of the position include but are not limited to:

Financial Analysis

• Analyze financial information
• Create and analyze monthly, quarterly, and annual reports and ensures financial information has been recorded accurately.

Forecasting

• Assist with the Development of integrated revenue/expense analysis, projections, and reports.
• Assist with financial forecasting.

International Reporting

• Provide daily and weekly store sales reporting
• Ad-hoc reports as requested by Management

Budgets

• Assist with the preparation of forecast 5-year projections for revenue, expenses, CAPEX, training, entertainment, travel, and budgets

Strategy

• Assist with maintaining the financial business models and roll out feasibility models in terms of various strategic missions proposed or undertaken.

Restaurant Reporting

• Conduct analysis of variances on weekly Cost of Sales Report in conjunction with analysis of Inventory Status Report per restaurant.
• Identify the anomalies in variances and inventory usage per restaurant
• Investigate cause of high/low Cost of Sales % per restaurant eg. Incorrect stock count, booking in of stock at restaurant level, incorrect quantity received.
• Ensure that stock count reports are updated correctly on Micros for receiving unit and base unit
• Ensure that correct stock items appear on stock count report
• Conduct Wastage Analysis and unaccounted-for stock to be investigated (disciplinary procedure to be followed where necessary)
• Provide the daily analysis of suspended, booked, Inventory Daily Variance, cancelled inventory on Micros
• To assist Restaurant Managers with stock count procedures when required
• Assist Restaurant Managers with capturing, transfer and receiving stock on Micros when required
• Produce a weekly report that is to be sent to the Finance Manager detailing anomalies found in the preceding week and adjustments that need to be accounted for (to be sent by Tuesday 12:00).
• Conduct weekly restaurant visits of those restaurants identified in weekly report.
• Produce the Monthly Cost of Sales report to be run for the month, detailing anomalies and action that was taken on restaurant visits and the weekly reports to address these anomalies.
• Submit reports to the Financial Manager, Area Managers and District Managers by the 10th working day of the new month

• Management Accountant of Company reporting directly to CFO & CEO
• Manage 6 junior accounting staff members who report directly
• Reviewing monthly expenses and drafting of monthly management accounts and group consolidations for entire transport division of Cullinan Holdings Limited
• Directly responsible for obtaining figures from branches in Johannesburg, Durban & Hazyview.
• Directly responsible for all financial matters to Namibian Operations
• Reviewing and signing off all sub systems in the accounts on a monthly basis
• Responsible for reconciling all balance sheet accounts on a monthly basis
• Responsible for rolling forward accounting system into new month for processing purposes
• Drafting of monthly management accounts and discussing with directors and shareholders on a monthly basis as well as reporting to holding Company
• Monthly reporting to Directors and Shareholders on monthly management accounts
• Responsible for signing off on EFT payments to creditors & other ad hoc payments
• Reviewing of creditor reconciliations on a monthly basis
• Reviewing and signing off all invoices on a daily basis to ensure accuracy and completeness
• Responsible for collection of monies from debtors on a monthly basis
• Responsible for dealing with bad debtors in form communicating with debtors via writing or phone calls, and in turn handing over of poor paying debtors to attorneys and ensuring that the process of debt collection in such form is complete and accurate.
• Responsible for maintaining, reconciliation and issuing payments from foreign bank accounts
• Liaison with overseas suppliers, reconciling of accounts on a monthly basis, and paying such accounts
• Review and authorize payments due for VAT, PAYE, UIF, and calculating these amounts on a monthly basis
• Responsible for managing Company’s cash flow, and reporting on Company’s cash flow on a daily basis & weekly basis
• Responsible for planning and drafting of cash flow forecasts for the month
• Responsible for annual Group audit, planning, liaising with auditors and dealing with queries
• Responsible for planning, updating, and reviewing of Company’s annual budgets and quarterly forecasts
• Responsible for calculation income tax liabilities and submitting to auditors to complete annual tax returns
• Responsible for all finance staff matters (authorising of leave etc)
• Maintaining in house IT related queries and issues not required to be dealt with outside IT support Company (basic needs like network issues, purchasing of new PC’s etc)
• Maintenance of Pastel accounting system and network throughout Group. Ensuring maintenance of all databases
• Annual audit internal and external
• Monthly Management accounts, closing off figures, revenue calculations and reporting of figures
• Full accounting function from vouchers to GL, to TB to Management account

• Financial Manager of Company reporting directly to Financial & Managing Director
• Manage 4 junior accounting staff members who report directly
• Reviewing monthly expenses and drafting of monthly management accounts and group consolidations for entire group of Companies
• Directly responsible for obtaining figures from branches in Johannesburg, Durban & Port Elizabeth
• Reviewing and signing off all sub systems in the accounts on a monthly basis
• Responsible for reconciling all balance sheet accounts on a monthly basis
• Responsible for rolling forward accounting system into new month for processing purposes
• Responsible for importing of data from Crystal reports into excel and Pastel to calculate revenue and in turn manipulating these reports to generate accurate and complete reports to Finance Director
• Drafting of monthly management accounts and discussing with directors and shareholders on a monthly basis as well as reporting to holding Company in Belgium
• Monthly reporting to Directors and Shareholders on monthly management accounts
• Part signatory on all banking accounts for Company
• Responsible for signing off on EFT payments to creditors & other ad hoc payments
• Reviewing of creditor reconciliations on a monthly basis
• Reviewing and signing off all invoices on a daily basis to ensure accuracy and completeness
• Responsible for collection of monies from debtors on a monthly basis
• Responsible for dealing with bad debtors in form communicating with debtors via writing or phone calls, and in turn handing over of poor paying debtors to attorneys and ensuring that the process of debt collection in such form is complete and accurate.
• Responsible for maintaining, reconciliation and issuing payments from foreign bank accounts
• Costing of shipments
• Calculating and processing foreign exchange differences on a monthly basis
• Review and sign off on all project files opened for clients and closing off files once the entire project has been completed
• Liaison with overseas suppliers, reconciling of accounts on a monthly basis, and paying such accounts
• Review and authorise payments due for VAT, PAYE, UIF, and calculating these amounts on a monthly basis
• Responsible for managing Company’s cash flow, and reporting on Company’s cash flow on a daily basis & weekly basis
• Responsible for planning and drafting of cash flow forecasts for the month
• Responsible for annual Group audit, planning, liaising with auditors and dealing with queries
• Responsible for planning, updating, and reviewing of Company’s annual budgets and quarterly forecasts
• Responsible for calculation income tax liabilities and submitting to auditors to complete annual tax returns
• Responsible for all finance staff matters (authorising of leave etc)
• Responsible for hiring and dismissal of accounting staff
• Responsible for opening and closing offices on a daily basis
• Maintaining in house IT related queries and issues not required to be dealt with outside IT support Company (basic needs like network issues, purchasing of new PC’s etc)
• Maintenance of Omnix accounting system and network throughout Group. Ensuring maintenance of all databases
• Annual audit internal and external
• Monthly Management accounts, closing off figures, revenue calculations and reporting of figures to overseas shareholders on SAP and CPM systems
• Full accounting function from vouchers to GL, to TB to Management accounts

• Part business owner in fruit and veg business supplying fresh produce to the restaurant and catering industry.
• Procurement of fresh produce on daily basis by going to market and sourcing required stock for the day.
• Full accounting function for business
• Management of 7 staff compliment
• Cash flow forecasts
• Business development strategies
• Maintaining customer relationships and sourcing new customers (sales representative function)

• Financial Manager of Company reporting directly to Managing Director
• Managing entire Johannesburg office and responsible for day to day running thereof
• Manage 4 junior accounting staff members who report directly
• Reviewing monthly expenses and drafting of monthly management accounts and group consolidations for entire group of Companies
• Directly responsible for obtaining figures from sister companies in Cape Town and Durban
• Reviewing and signing off all sub systems in the accounts on a monthly basis
• Responsible for reconciling all balance sheet accounts on a monthly basis
• Responsible for rolling forward accounting system into new month for processing purposes
• Responsible for importing of data from Crystal reports into excel and Pastel to calculate revenue and in turn manipulating these reports to generate accurate and complete reports to Managing Director
• Drafting of monthly management accounts and discussing with directors and shareholders on a monthly basis
• Monthly reporting to Directors and Shareholders on monthly management accounts
• Responsible for calculating, reviewing, and authorizing monthly salaries as well as processing of salaries in payroll package.
• Responsible for payment of salaries via EFT
• Part signatory on all banking accounts for group
• Responsible for signing off on cheque payments to creditors
• Reviewing of creditor reconciliations on a monthly basis
• Reviewing and signing off all invoices on a daily basis to ensure accuracy and completeness
• Responsible for collection of monies from debtors on a monthly basis
• Responsible for dealing with bad debtors in form communicating with debtors via writing or phone calls, and in turn handing over of poor paying debtors to attorneys and ensuring that the process of debt collection in such form is complete and accurate.
• Responsible for maintaining, reconciliation and issuing payments from foreign bank accounts
• Costing of shipments
• Calculating and processing foreign exchange differences on a monthly basis
• Review and sign off on all files opened for clients and closing off of files once the entire order has been completed
• Liaison with overseas suppliers, reconciling of accounts on a monthly basis, and paying such accounts
• Review and authorize payments due for VAT, PAYE, UIF, and calculating these amounts on a monthly basis
• Responsible for managing Company’s cash flow, and reporting on Group’s cash flow on a daily basis
• Responsible for planning and drafting of cash flow forecasts
• Responsible for annual Group audit, planning, liasing with auditors and dealing with queries
• Responsible for planning, updating, and reviewing of Company and Group’s annual budgets
• Responsible for calculation income tax liabilities and submitting to auditors to complete annual tax returns
• Responsible for staff training
• Responsible for all staff matters in the Johannesburg office (authorising of leave etc)
• Responsible for hiring and dismissal of accounting staff
• Responsible for opening and closing offices on a daily basis
• Maintaining Johannesburg office computing needs
• Travelling to Cape Town and Durban at least once a month to review and ensure smooth operation of offices.
• Maintenance of Pastel accounting system and network throughout Group. Ensuring maintenance of all databases
• Dealing with attorneys and responsible for all legal cases 

• Management Accountant supervising 8 staff members reporting directly to Financial Manager
• Key Performance Areas: (Not Totally Inclusive)
• Preparation of management accounts, variance reporting and general ledger reconciliations
• Management of creditors, debtors, payroll, cash book and cash flow.
• Manage the audit and budgeting processes
• Management of Internal Control Systems (ICS) and implementation of internal controls
• Manage foreign payments
• Manage the general ledger system.
• Assist in monthly reporting
• Resolve accounting discrepancies and irregularities
• Preparation of statutory returns
• Manage purchase order control account
• Manage all journals posted
• Preparation of tax schedules
• Manage the electronic payment system
• Knowledge and experience in BBBEE scorecards
• Any ad-hoc duties and projects as require

• Financial Manager of Company reporting directly to Financial Director and Managing Director
• Managing entire Johannesburg office and responsible for day to day running thereof
• Manage 2 junior accounting staff members whom report directly
• Reviewing monthly expenses and drafting of monthly management accounts and group consolidations for entire group of Companies
• Directly responsible for obtaining figures from sister companies in Zambia and Isle of Man
• Reviewing and consolidation of Zambian and UK accounts into group accounts. (all consolidation reports must be converted to US. Dollars)
• Reviewing and signing off all sub systems in the accounts on a monthly basis
• Responsible for reconciling all balance sheet accounts on a monthly basis
• Responsible for rolling forward accounting system into new month for processing purposes
• Drafting of monthly management accounts and discussing with directors and shareholders on a monthly basis
• Monthly reporting to Directors and Shareholders on monthly management accounts
• Responsible for calculating, reviewing and authorising monthly salaries
• Responsible for payment of salaries via EFT
• Part signatory on all banking accounts for group
• Responsible for signing off on cheque payments to creditors
• Reviewing of creditor reconciliations on a monthly basis
• Reviewing and signing off of all invoices on a daily basis to ensure accuracy and completeness
• Responsible for collection of monies from debtors on a monthly basis
• Responsible for maintaining, reconciliation and issuing payments from foreign bank accounts
• Calculating and processing foreign exchange differences on a monthly basis
• Review and sign off on all files opened for clients and closing off of files once the entire order has been completed
• Liason with overseas suppliers, reconciling of accounts on a monthly basis, and paying such accounts
• Review and authorise payments due for VAT, PAYE, UIF
• Reviewing, authorising, and payment of salaries
• Responsible for managing Company
• Cash flow, and reporting on Group
• Cash flow on a daily basis
• Responsible for planning and drafting of cash flow forecasts
• Responsible for annual Group audit, planning, liasing with auditors and dealing with queries
• Responsible for planning, updating and reviewing of Company and Group
• Annual budgets
• Responsible for calculation income tax liabilities and submitting to auditors to complete annual tax returns
• Responsible for staff training
• Responsible for all staff matters in the Johannesburg office (authorising of leave etc)
• Responsible for opening and closing offices on a daily basis
• Maintaining Johannesburg office computing needs
• Was solely responsible for relocation of Johannesburg offices to new offices. Meeting with interior designers and ensuring office structure and setup
• Travelling with Managing and Financial Director to Zambian offices minimum 3 times a year. Signing off on all Zambian accounting work
• Travel to Burundi and Rwanda at least once a year to meet with key clients
• Maintainance of Pastel accounting system and network throughout Group

• Financial Manager of Company reporting directly to Directors and Shareholders
• Solely responsible for full accounting function of Company
• Monthly postings (Cash book, Debtors, Creditors, Inventory, Salaries)
• Reviewing monthly expenses and drafting of monthly management accounts
• Reviewing and signing off all sub systems in the accounts on a monthly basis
• Responsible for reconciliation of balance sheet accounts on a monthly basis
• Responsible for rolling forward accounting system into new month for processing purposes
• Monthly reposting to Directors and Shareholders on monthly management accounts
• Responsible for calculating, reviewing and authorising monthly salaries
• Responsible for signing off on cheque and EFT payments to creditors
• Responsible for signing off of all invoices on a daily basis to ensure accuracy and completeness
• Responsible for collection of monies from debtors on a monthly basis
• Responsible for importing of inventory
• Responsible for costing of shipments
• Responsible for payment of shipments in foreign currencies
• Liason with overseas suppliers and reconciling of accounts on a monthly basis
• Responsible for completion and rendition of monthly statutory returns (VAT, PAYE, UIF etc)
• Responsible for managing company Cash flow on a daily, weekly, monthly basis
• Responsible for planning and drafting of daily, weekly cash flow forecasts
• Responsible for planning and execution of quarterly and annual stock takes
• Responsible for annual Company audit and liasing with auditors
• Responsible for planning, updating and reviewing of Companyâs annual budgets
• Responsible for completion and rendition of Company tax returns
• Responsible for staff training where required
• Responsible for day to day running of the office
• Daily banking
• Responsible for petty cash
• Responsible for opening and closing of offices
• Was actively involved and took the lead in planning, and completion of Company
• MBO from overseas shareholders

• Senior Financial Accountant for Company reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer
• Head of the Finance Department
• Manager of 5 junior staff members who report directly
• Reviewing and drafting of monthly management accounts
• Responsible for doing monthly consolidation of Group accounts
• Responsible for reviewing and authorising monthly salaries
• Responsible for signing off on cheque and EFT payments to creditors
• Responsible for drafting and updating Group budgets
• Capturing budgets into the accounting system
• Drafting of cash flow forecasts
• Actively involved with planning of daily and monthly cash flows
• Responsible for maintaining, updating and reconciling of program inventories on a monthly basis
• Presenting Board of Directors and Shareholders with a detail financial management report on a monthly basis and discussing it
• Reviewing and signing off all sub systems in the general ledger on a monthly basis
• Responsible for rolling forward the accounting system into new month for processing purposes and signing off on closing entries for the month
• Responsible for staff training where required
• Responsible for Company petty cash
• Responsible for year end figures, meeting with auditors, planning of audit dates and over seeing the entire audit
• Employment and dismissal of staff within the Finance Department

• Senior Accountant to Company
• Writing up and maintaining books and accounting records of various clients
• Drawing up monthly management accounts for clients and discussion with management
• Drawing up annual or monthly budgets for clients
• Drawing up cash flow forecasts
• Assist in management recommendation for clients relating to their financials
• Completion and rendition of monthly statutory returns i.e. VAT, PAYE, RSC and UIF
• Comparing actual figures to budget figures and reporting on them to clients
• Considering impact of figures with management and redrafting budget
• Managing entire tax department of Company
• Completing and submitting tax returns for Companies, Close Corporations and individuals
• Handling all tax affairs of clients
• Structuring of client
• Salary packages
• Managing certain clients payroll function
• Ensuring that salaries are calculated correctly
• Transferring of salaries to various employee bank accounts
• Assist in training on Pastel for clients and staff members
• Doing Pastel support for certain clients
• Involved in monthly billing of clients for Cacia Financial Management
• Secretarial work for clients registering of CC and Companies

• Manager of 3 junior article clerks
• Planning and booking of audits
• Monthly accounting for clients included completion of statutory returns i.e. VAT, PAYE, RSC and UIF
• Management of inventory systems for certain monthly clients
• Drawing up of monthly management accounts for clients
• Discussion with management regarding the impact of these accounts
• Drawing up of budget and cash flow forecast for certain clients and discussing these documents
• Auditing of clientsInvolved in discussion of financial statements with directors of Companies
• Completion of tax returns for individuals, Companies, Close Corporations and Trusts
• Review tax returns completed by junior clerks
• Rendition of tax returns to SARS
• Reviewing assessments received back from SARS and lodge appeals if necessary
• Ensuring that figures agree to tax computations
• Administration of tax queries and objections
• Structuring of salaries for clients
• Calculating monthly remuneration packages
• Assist in training on accounting packages for certain clients
• Actively involved in day to day running of Van DykIncorporated
• Debt collection
• Banking
• Office administration
• Billing of clients

• Audits of various clients
• Tax returns for individuals, Companies, Close Corporations and Trusts
• Drafting of annual financial statements
• Statutory audits
• Monthly accounting work for clients