Senior Financial Accountant

Key Roles and Responsibilities:
• Implement, control, and monitoring of periodic compliance testing.
• Actively support the management of overall financial forecasting processes.
• Review financial records to ensure they comply with company policies and accounting principles.
• Undertake a regular review of the accuracy of regulatory calculations and submissions.
• Experience working
• Reconcile accounts, resolve discrepancies, and collaborate across various finance and non-finance functions.
• Analyze journals, produce data analysis and reports and assist with variance analysis.
• Assemble the annual audit information for external auditors.
• As a partner in the accounting process, recommend how to improve efficiency using automation.
• Analyze past performance financial data and prepare budgets and forecasts for business unit management.
• Implement effective financial controls, including systems reconciliations and ensuring the integrity of reported figures.
• Proactively supports the activities of the accounts receivable function within the assigned business unit.
• Process month-end activities which include the preparation and processing of month-end journal entries, processing loan and bank account entries and reconciling these accounts, and executing a variety of actions in the accounting system.
• Perform cash management activities and produce the bank reconciliations for company bank accounts and process all the necessary bank account entries required.
• Regular review tax calculations and reports to ensure compliance including determining and managing sales tax compliance.
• Review the credit vetting process by ensuring that new accounts are opened in line with financial procedures.

Knowledge, Skills, and Attributes:
• Good communication skills (verbal and written)
• Good interpersonal skills
• Ability to self-manage
• Display good planning and organizing ability
• Demonstrate good attention to detail
• Deadline driven individuals who contribute to the success of the team
• Able to cope with stressful situations
• Able to deal with different individuals at all levels in the organization
• Take own initiative and have a solutions-orientated approach
• Maintain a high standard of accuracy and quality
• Proactive approach with the ability to think ahead in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to work independently and be a knowledge expert
• Strong analytical skills, and an ability to understand underlying business drivers and provide actionable insights based on your analysis.
• Sound and proven working knowledge of accounting practices and principles
• Knowledge and prior exposure to international entities, foreign currency, and inter-company transactions
• Extensive knowledge tax legislative requirements locally, and in international jurisdictions

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:
• General Qualification in Accounting (Degree)

Required Experience:
• Demonstrated experience in a similar position in a related environment with accounting software
• Extensive experience within finance in a company with international operations

What will make you a good fit for the role