The Role
To manage a core function of the department in terms of work flow and performance of team, ensuring continuity and deadlines are met.
Main Output
Supervise the team:
- Monitor input and output of the accounting systems and ensure the integrity of the information on the system
- Allocate financial tasks to team members
- Oversee to ensure that team members are able to achieve their outputs10%10%
- Provide training to develop staff skills level to the required standard
- Continuously provide feedback and coaching to ensure that the staff member/s performs at optimum productivity level
- Ensure that department is fully staffed and that all work is covered and processed and tasks are carried out regardless of absences
- Performance manage the team and take corrective action as necessary
- Manage the team on a day to day basis in terms of leave, and other staffing issues
- Provide technical assistance to staff
- Review month end reconciliations prepared by the controllers
- Submit reconciliations to Head of Finance Region for approval
- Process journals as instructed
- Process journals to correct incorrect allocations following authorisation
- Correct incorrect invoicing after authorisation
- Serve as an authorised signatory when checking controllers documentation prior to submission to the Head of Finance Region
- Release payments to suppliers as first release in terms of the authority matrix
- Run reports on the system - daily, weekly and monthly and provide to Head of Finance Region
- Discuss the content with the controllers and provide written commentary
- Send information to the Heads of Finance Region for review
- Deal with queries
- Escalate and intervene with controllers as necessary
- Provide regional information to the respective Head of Finance Region such as expenditure, collection and cash flow position
- Build client relationships with debtors and suppliers
- Deal with escalated variances e.g. Non-payment outside contractual agreements, banking, corporate credit cards, invoices from suppliers, airline queries, refunds/queries on airline tickets etc.
- Ensure that the team's financial information balances to the monthly management account
- Minimum 3 years experience leading an accounting team
- Experience with AGM system
- Microsoft Suite basic
- Microsoft Office Suite with intermediate Excel capability
- Excellent communication skills (verbal & written)
- AGM
- Debtor Management
- Accounting system
- Managerial skills
- Management
- Financial Reporting
- Journal
- Team Lead
- 2 to 5 years Team Leader & Supervisor
