Middelburg: Site Accountant posted by Staff Focus

About the Role

The Site Accountant role at Staff Focus involves preparing and analyzing financial reports, forecasts, and budgets to support the operations of our Middelburg sites. This is a critical position that requires strong analytical skills, commercial experience, and excellent communication abilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly management accounts per site, analyzing cost per activity/production process.
• Monitor actual performance vs budget and prior year, highlighting variances and recommending corrective actions.
• Collaborate with site operations to prepare weekly, quarterly, and rolling forecasts.
• Upload forecasts and actuals into Hyperion Planning (HP).
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual results presentations with variance analysis.
• Maintain and update cash flow reports, including AR collections and Capex projections.
• Daily monitoring and reporting on production and cost metrics.
• Oversee monthly financial close for both Middelburg sites.
• Validate customer deliveries and invoices; approve ERP entries.
• Prepare expense accruals and journal entries.
• Ensure accurate receipting and follow up on pending goods.
• Perform month-end reconciliations (expenses, stock, capex, FAR, AR, bank, IC, payroll, etc.).
• Coordinate inter-company invoicing and reconciliations.
• Prepare VAT calculations and submissions (VAT201), and other statutory reports (e.g., STATS SA).
• Support SOX compliance and internal controls.
• Assist with HFM uploads and commentary.
• Conduct inventory counts and capex reconciliations.
• Review and load supplier payments, including international transactions.
• Lead internal and external audit preparations.
• Partner with operations and commercial teams to evaluate strategies and profitability.
• Support senior management with financial insights for top-line strategy decisions.
• Resolve SARS queries and support ad hoc financial tasks.

Requirements

• Degree / Honours or CA (SA), CIMA
• Minimum of 2 (CA (SA) or CIMA) or 3 years (Degree/Honours) commercial experience
• IFRS/US GAAP
• Should ideally have worked for a multinational company
• Must have forecast building and controlling experience
• Advanced Excel skills
• ERP experience advantageous (JD Edwards, Oracle, Hyperion)
• Strong financial, commercial and analytical skills
• People management experience
• Strong personality, able to work with senior level management and operations
• The ability to work in a pressured environment
• Compiling and presenting reports, budgets, business plans
• Valid driver’s license

Qualifications

No specific qualifications mentioned.

Salary & Benefits

Salary details not specified.