We have a compelling opportunity for an experienced Senior Financial Controller at a highly innovative, upmarket property development company in Cape Town.
This role calls for a qualified accountant who is experienced in popular accounting software. The ideal candidate is organised and pays strong attention to detail. We’re ideally looking for a candidate with some experience in the construction sector.
This is an on-site opportunity, and a CA qualification is essential.
If crunching numbers comes naturally so that every Rand makes “sense,” we’d love to hear from you. Apply today!
Responsibilities
Financial Feasibilities & Analysis
- Analysing Project financial feasibilities and profit returns
- Calculating Project interest rolls
- Mapping out Project funding split, raise targets & pre-sale targets
- Analysing Project IRR’s and Net profit returns
- Analysing Project costing efficiencies.
Operational
- Cash Flow Management (Daily updates, Budget vs Actual tracking, driving key cash flow items)
- Cash Flow forecasting for Projects and Group
- Project Bank draw recons and submissions
- VAT facility recons & VAT submissions reviews
- Revenue forecasting and tracking
- Overhead budgeting and tracking
- Tax related matters when applicable
- New entity set-up – from a SARS, Accounting package and CIPC perspective
- Legal agreement implementation and review.
Accounting
- Audit oversight and management
- Overseeing complete and accurate trial balances
- Accounting system changes and improvement implementation
- Focusing on efficiencies
- Developing and implementing smart & live reporting
- Reconciling Sales system and Accounting system
- Reconciling 3rd party platform reports and providing sales splits
- Review of payroll
- Posting sales, interest and transfer journals.
Reporting & Pack Creation
- Leadership reporting
- Management Reporting
- Shareholders Reporting
- Project Reporting
- Bank funding pack creation
- Project reconciliations between departmental reports
- Viability updates.
Secretarial
- Booking shareholder meetings
- Compiling meeting agendas and minutes.
Other
- Providing support where applicable to the Finance Director and Financial Manager
- General ad hoc duties as the company sees fit.
Requirements
The successful candidate must have/be:
- Degree in Finance or Accounting: non-negotiable
- CA (SA) or CIMA qualification : non-negotiable
- 5 years’ experience in a similar role
- Xero and Syft accounting software experience: non-negotiable
- Construction related experience: preferred
- Someone who loves a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- A highly-organised individual who is responsible to manage tasks on their own
- Hard-worker, efficient, deadline focused, high attention to detail and strong ability to self-review work
- Incredibly neat and have extensive experience with reporting pack compilations
- Good with people and work well in a team
- Proficient in Microsoft 365 suite (Outlook, Teams, Office)
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills (pivot tables, vlookups, complex if formulas).
Should you not receive a response within 10 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.
