Is this you?

• Are you a meticulous and detail-oriented financial professional with a strong background in project finance? Do you thrive in dynamic environments, ensuring financial precision and compliance? If you have a passion for accounting and a knack for optimising processes, this could be the perfect role for you.

What you’ll be doing (and why you’ll enjoy it)

• You will manage all project accounting activities and reporting for multiple territories. You will keep all accounting activities up to date, ensuring weekly and monthly deadlines are met, and track and reconcile purchase orders, customer invoices, and project costs. You’ll be involved in budget and forecast processes, analyse trends, and support department managers with templates and guidelines. Collaborating closely with in-country finance and project management teams, you will ensure financial controls are in place and respected. Your role will also involve continuous follow-up on liquidity, tracking accounts receivable, and optimising invoicing and collection processes. Your analytical skills will be essential in reviewing and analysing supplier invoices before payment.
• You’ll be responsible for project accounting as well as some of your role directly on the company’s finances – about a 80/20% split.
• This is exciting in that the growth track is to become the 2nd in charge to CFO!!! You’re going places!!

Where you’ll be doing it

• Our client is a leader in providing specialised services to engineering type sectors. The company fosters a collaborative and inclusive work environment, encouraging professional growth and development. The company is growing so they’re in an exciting space!
• The office is based in Milnerton, Cape Town. For the probation period, you’ll be fully office based. Thereafter there is a hybrid situation with a day or two work from home (granted you have a stable internet connection and covered in loadshedding). You’ll join a great team of professionals who value integrity, dedication and accountability.

What you’ll need

• We’re looking at either a newly Qualified CA or someone with a Bcom degree in finance or a similar field, along with at least 3 years of post-qualifying experience. We’d love someone with project finance experience in Africa but we are happy to look at someone with strong accounting experience. You’ll need strong Excel skills, particularly with pivot tables etc. Experience in the construction, engineering, or oil and gas industries will be advantageous. Your strong analytical abilities and attention to detail will be crucial in this role. We’re looking for a young, driven and passionate individual, someone that can think outside the box and is dynamic.

What you’ll get

• You will be offered a competitive salary and possibility of earning a performance based bonus. Joining this team means becoming part of a forward-thinking organisation that values innovation, collaboration, and excellence.