Vacant Position – Financial Controller at Baobab Hospitality Recruitments

Job Description:

To establish and manage accounting procedures and to ensure that all the financials for the monthly business review meetings have been completed.

Qualifications

• Higher National Diploma / B com in accounting
• Good level of communicating skills and relationships.
• Good level of English language.
• Good user knowledge of standard PC software.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.

Experience

• 3 to 5 years experience as a financial controller

Salary

Negotiable

Key Responsibilities

• Printing of bank account statements and posting of entries on bank accounts daily
• Bank reconciliations of all company bank accounts
• Sending daily and monthly bank balances to Head Office Treasury
• Review of cash position to ensure that all the bank accounts are adequately funded
• Process month-end schedules and journals for hotels within the company. Balance sheet reconciliation for all the ledgers and prepare the month end file
• Do the intercompany matrix for company hotels Branch and ensure that all intercompany accounts are balancing
• Produce the month-end financials including commentary of results
• Ensure that all the financials for the monthly business review meetings have been completed
• Assist the Regional Accountant in producing company financials for the quarterly Board Meetings
• Do VAT reconciliations
• Do bi-monthly VAT returns for company hotels Branch and submit to SARS
• Follow up on all VAT refunds due from SARS
• Ensure that VAT returns are submitted timeously
• Prepare monthly and quarterly funding forecasts for company branches. Compare actual funding position with forecast on a weekly basis and do variance analysis
• Draw up the quarterly budgets for company branches.
• Input budgets into the Pastel database
• Assist in the setting up of macro-economic parameters to be used in the preparation budgets, eg projected inflation rates and exchange rates
• Review the debtors position for company and ensure that follow-up is made on overdue amounts
• Review the creditors reconciliations and ensure that all accounts are up to date
• Ensure that all controls for cash payments are adhered to
• Prepare all year end schedules such as fixed assets and stocks
• Ensure that all the year-end financials are complete
• Assist auditors with all the information that they might need in carrying out their fieldwork.
• Attend to any other duties as assigned by Management

Requirements

a) A self starter and self driven

b) Strong interpersonal and good communication skills.

c) Must be available to start immediately

How to apply:

Please forward your CV to our email address baobabgp@mweb.co.za or fax to 086 672 2614.