Location: Aspen Lakes, Johannesburg | Salary: R60 000 – R65 000 per month | Permanent

Overview

The organisation is seeking an experienced and commercially minded Chartered Accountant (CA(SA)) to provide high-level financial oversight, reporting, compliance and financial management support. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the accuracy and integrity of financial information, strengthening financial controls, overseeing statutory and tax compliance, producing meaningful management information and supporting management with financial analysis and business decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Reporting & Management Accounts

• Prepare and review monthly management accounts and financial reports.
• Ensure the accuracy, completeness and timeliness of financial information.
• Review bank, customer, supplier and stock reconciliations.
• Maintain oversight of the fixed asset register.
• Analyse financial performance, variances, margins and profitability.
• Prepare financial information and reports for management decision-making.
• Ensure appropriate month-end and year-end financial close processes.

Financial Control & Governance

• Maintain and strengthen internal financial controls.
• Identify financial and operational risks and recommend corrective action.
• Ensure accounting policies and procedures are appropriately implemented.
• Maintain high standards of financial governance, accuracy and confidentiality.
• Ensure accounting practices comply with applicable professional standards and ethics.

Tax & Statutory Compliance

• Oversee and/or prepare statutory returns, including VAT, PAYE and UIF.
• Ensure statutory submissions and payments are completed accurately and within required deadlines.
• Apply appropriate VAT treatment, including zero-rated and exempt transactions.
• Support provisional tax calculations and other applicable taxation requirements.
• Apply knowledge of customs VAT methods, bad and doubtful debts, deferred tax and relevant tax rates.
• Liaise with auditors, SARS and other relevant external stakeholders where required.

Budgeting, Forecasting & Financial Analysis

• Assist with annual budgets and financial forecasts.
• Monitor actual performance against budgets and forecasts.
• Analyse financial trends and provide commercially meaningful recommendations.
• Monitor cash flow and working capital.
• Evaluate key financial ratios including profitability, liquidity, debtor and creditor turnover, stock turnover, debt-to-equity, return on investment and fixed asset turnover.

Payroll & Accounting Operations

• Provide appropriate financial oversight of payroll processing.
• Review payroll-related calculations, fringe benefits and allowances where required.
• Ensure appropriate accounting treatment of payroll transactions.
• Support and guide junior accounting employees on accounting standards, processes and technical queries.

Working Capital & Commercial Finance

• Monitor debtors, creditors, inventory and working-capital performance.
• Identify opportunities to improve cash flow, financial efficiency and profitability.
• Analyse customer and supplier accounts and resolve material discrepancies.
• Support management in evaluating commercial and financial decisions.

Audit

• Coordinate financial information required for external audit.
• Prepare appropriate schedules and supporting documentation.
• Liaise with external auditors and address audit queries.
• Assist management with implementing audit recommendations.

Qualifications & Experience

• Qualified Chartered Accountant – CA(SA).
• Current or eligible registration with SAICA.
• Completed SAICA training contract/articles.
• Relevant Bachelor’s degree and postgraduate accounting qualification.
• Strong knowledge of South African accounting, taxation and statutory requirements.
• Strong financial reporting and management accounting experience.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Ideally 3–5+ years’ post-articles experience; an exceptional newly qualified CA(SA) may also be considered.
• Commercial/industry experience would be highly advantageous.
• Experience within automotive, fuel, logistics, transport, distribution, manufacturing or a similarly operational environment would be advantageous.
• Valid driver’s licence.

Systems & Technical Knowledge

• Experience with accounting/ERP systems such as Xero, Sage/Pastel or similar.
• Strong Microsoft Excel and general MS Office capability.
• Experience with SARS eFiling and EasyFile advantageous.
• Sound understanding of VAT, taxation, payroll-related accounting, fixed assets, inventory and financial ratios.

Competencies

• Excellent analytical and numerical ability.
• High attention to detail and accuracy.
• Commercial and financial acumen.
• Strong professional judgement and objective decision-making.
• Problem-solving and critical-thinking ability.
• Ability to interpret financial information and communicate it to non-financial management.
• Strong planning, organisational and time-management skills.
• Ability to work independently and meet strict deadlines.
• High level of integrity and confidentiality.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Proactive and solutions-oriented approach.

Language

Excellent written and spoken English.

This job description sets out the principal responsibilities of the role and is not exhaustive. Additional duties may be assigned in line with operational and business requirements.

Location: Johannesburg, Gauteng
Employment Type: Permanent

Salary: R40 000 – R60 000 per month, plus benefits (car allowance, 50% medical aid contribution, 7% pension contribution, commuting allowance, and a discretionary bonus structure — a performance bonus paid in July and an annual bonus paid in December, each equivalent to a month’s salary)

Overview

Our client is a multinational corporate group with a Johannesburg office, seeking an experienced HR Manager / HR Business Partner to provide professional HR support locally while aligning with the group’s broader regional HR direction. The role supports management and employees through HR guidance, workforce planning, employee relations, performance management, recruitment coordination, HR reporting and compliance, as well as participation in group-wide HR initiatives — going beyond transactional HR administration to contribute to business-facing HR solutions, regional consistency and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

HR Business Partnering

• Act as the first point of contact for local office employees and General Managers on HR-related matters.
• Provide guidance on HR policies, procedures and South African employment legislation.
• Support General Managers in people management and organisational effectiveness.
• Assist with organisational structure reviews and local workforce planning.
• Coordinate employee transfers, mobility administration and post-mobility integration.
• Provide strategic people advisory support to management on workforce, talent and organisational matters.

Talent Acquisition & Onboarding

• Coordinate recruitment activities for the local office in line with group recruitment policies.
• Support General Managers through the recruitment and selection process.
• Manage onboarding and induction activities for new employees.
• Contribute to employer branding and talent attraction initiatives.

Employee Relations and Engagement

• Support the resolution of employee relations matters and assist with disciplinary, grievance and performance-related processes.
• Promote positive employee engagement and workplace culture, driving engagement initiatives and monitoring employee experience indicators.
• Ensure consistent application of HR policies and procedures.

Performance & Talent Management

• Coordinate annual performance appraisal processes.
• Support succession planning and talent review discussions.
• Monitor performance management actions and development plans, and facilitate career development discussions.

Learning & Development

• Identify training and development needs, and coordinate local and regional training programmes.
• Support implementation of group-wide learning initiatives, and monitor training effectiveness and participation.

Compensation, Benefits & HR Administration

• Support salary review, performance-based reward processes and benchmarking exercises.
• Assist with benefits administration and annual remuneration reviews.
• Maintain accurate employee records, HR documentation and HR system data.

HR Compliance & Reporting

• Ensure compliance with local labour legislation and internal policies.
• Prepare HR reports, analytics and management information for local and regional reporting requirements.
• Support internal and external audits as required.

Regional Involvement

• Participate in selected group HR projects, transformation initiatives and regional programmes.
• Collaborate with HR, Corporate and Business Unit stakeholders across the group on regional initiatives and cross-functional HR solutions.
• Support international mobility, secondment and localisation initiatives, including employee transfers and post-mobility integration where relevant.
• Promote effective use of HR systems and related HR technologies, and identify opportunities to improve HR processes through automation, AI and digital HR tools.
• Contribute to mobility, compensation and digital HR transformation initiatives, using HR analytics to support evidence-based decisions at local and regional level.

Minimum Requirements

• Minimum 8 years of progressive experience in Human Resources, across multiple disciplines including recruitment, employee relations, performance management, learning and development, and HR operations.
• Strong knowledge and practical application of South African labour legislation.
• Experience working within a multinational environment, including supporting regional HR initiatives and projects.
• Exposure to HRIS platforms, HR analytics and reporting tools.
• Undergraduate Degree or equivalent (Human Resources, Industrial Psychology, Business Administration or a related field); HR professional certification preferred.

R45 000 to R65 000 per month

• Reporting (prepare and ensure accurate and timeously reporting)
• Bank Reconciliations
• Customer Reconciliations
• Supplier Reconciliations
• Generate Customer Invoice
• Generate Supplier Invoice
• Fixed Assets Register
• Management Accounts (Self review)
• COIDA for review Customer Relations
• Stock Reconciliation
• Process Payroll – Fringe Benefits & Allowances
• Process Returns for review (PAYE, VAT, UIF)
• Request all required accounting documents and schedules
• Escalate any delays in getting information
• Remind and inform clients about any statutory deadlines and information
• Answer and respond to clients’ inquiries
• Maintain strict client confidentiality
• Adhere to accounting professional standards and ethics
• Client Liaison

REQUIREMENTS:

• Degree/Diploma in Accounting
• Matric & Driver’s Licence
• 4-5 Years’ work experience (min 3 year practice experience)

SKILLS:

• Computer Literacy (Excel, Word, MS Office), Pastel Partner, Pastel Payroll, Sage VIP Payroll, Xero
• Efiling,
• VAT applicability,
• VAT Zero rated,
• VAT Exempt Tax rates,
• Depreciation Methods,
• Customs VAT,
• Provisional tax calculation (deductions),
• Bad debts & doubtful debts,
• Gross profit ratio,
• Operating ratio,
• Operating profit ratio,
• Net Profit ratio,
• Current ratio,
• Quick ratio,
• Debt-to-equity ratio,
• Stock-turnover,
• Inventory ratio,
• Debtors turnover ratio,
• Creditors turnover ratio
• Excellent Communication (verbal and written)
• Research
• Numeracy and Numerical Reasoning and Ability
• Verbal Reasoning
• High Objective Judgement
• Timekeeping
• Attention to detail