Financial

Accountant

This position has been filled

Qualifications

  • BCompt. Degree

Experience & Knowledge

  • Completed articles at registered auditing firm
  • Computer skills and extensive experience in Excel
  • Cost accounting & standard cost principles essential
  • Forex handling

Characteristics

  • High attention to detail a pre-requisite
  • Analytical thinking
  • Excellent organisational skills
  • Energetic and disciplined
  • Good communication skills
  • Ability to work cooperative in a team
  • Be able to work under pressure and meet deadlines

Job Description

  • Maintenance of various cash books
  • Manage General Ledger reconciliations
  • Produce monthly management accounts
  • Liaison with auditors for audit purposes
  • Process relevant year end journal entries
  • Completion of full financial figures to trial balance level on a monthly basis
  • Prepare quality working paper files
  • Preparation of monthly management accounts of various companies
  • Balance Sheet Reconciliations are completed by set deadline
  • Report Variances to CFO
  • Review & sign off cashbook and bank reconciliation on a daily basis
  • Review and process monthly accruals and provision journals
  • Review and Reconcile Interco loans, accounts receivable and payable accounts
  • Meet Monthly reporting deadlines for the Group
  • Prepare financial and statistical data as & when requested.
  • Prepare variance reports, cash flows and ratio analysis as per request.
  • Review Trade Creditors Invoices and payments
  • Review Debtors Reconciliation
  • Prepare information for Budget Purposes
  • Weekly cashflow projections

Remuneration

Market related, depending on experience and qualifications

Starting date

As soon as possible

Applications

This position has been filled

We serve four key groups across the diverse sector of fresh produce:

Fruit producers and retailers, both within South Africa and abroad. It’s a world of good produce, good people and good prices. An extensive, vast world which we navigate via committed one-on-one relationships, to offer personalised service and tailored solutions/shipments.

How can we help you?

Partner with us as we navigate the landscape together.

Danèl van Deventer

Commercial Manager

Trust between client and company is everything.”

Danél started out in the industry in 2010 and has been working her way up ever since. She began in logistics and now serves as a commercial manager, drawing from her in-depth understanding of the cost chain. Danél is passionate about figs and has been dedicated to the export of almost 70% of the South African fig offering for the past seven years.

Department: Management & Support
Market: Far East, Europe, United Kingdom, Canada, Middle East
Produce: Figs

“We are in no other business than the people business.”

Jaco is a born entrepreneur and has been trading fruit since the age of 12 when he started his first business. He has experience in all major business areas, including farming, handling, transport, logistics, IT, marketing operations, finance, management, international and domestic affairs. He is fluent in French and also has basic Spanish language skills.