Reporting to: Finance Manager

Location: Killarney Gardens, Cape Town

Purpose of the role:

The purpose of this role is to support the Financial Manager with the day-to-day financial operations of the organisation. The role ensures the efficient, accurate, and effective functioning of financial processes, supports sound financial decision-making, and maintains compliance with organisational policies and statutory requirements.

Key Job Roles and Responsibilities (including but not limited to):

Financial Accounting Reporting

• Maintain general ledger integrity and ensure accurate posting of transactions.
• Perform and supervise month-end and year-end close processes. Closing of PO’s and SO’s, Long o/s items on AR and AP.
• Perform advanced reconciliations for debtors, creditors, intercompany, inventory, and fixed asset accounts.
• Investigate and resolve complex reconciling items

Inventory

• Identify risk stock
• Assist FM with NAV, short dated and risk stock analysis and provisions

Compliance and Audit

• Prepare audit packs and liaise with external auditors during annual and interim audits
• Support year-end procedures and audit preparation
• Ensure statutory compliance (VAT, PAYE, Income Tax, etc.)

Financial Controls

• Implement and maintain internal controls to safeguard company assets
• Prepare journal entries, reconciliations, and accounting schedules

Team Leadership and Support

• Supervise and mentor junior accounting staff
• Provide training and support on accounting processes and systems
• Review work prepared by accounting clerks/bookkeepers

Systems and Process Improvement

• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency
• Maintain and optimize accounting systems (Syspro)

Reporting and Month-end

• Prepare month-end schedules for review
• Syspro Month end rollover
• Datarapt reporting and maintenance
• Syspro Champion, assisting with all Syspro queries
• Provide insights into anomalies or unusual financial trends

Creditors and Debtors Oversight

• Supervise the creditor and debtor cycles
• Update and maintain CMGJ for Shoprite Checkers
• Approve invoices on TRAILD
• Approve reconciliations, payment runs, and customer allocations
• Manage escalated supplier or customer queries
• Load local and foreign payments into Nedbank
• Summarize of credit notes on monthly basis
• Weekly reporting to Management on debtors

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• Matric
• Diploma or Degree in Accounting/Finance (preferred)
• 5+ Years’ experience, including full function to trial balance
• Experience in medium to large organisations (advantageous)
• Advanced experience with accounting software (Syspro)
• Strong proficiency in MS Excel
• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced production environment

Personal Profile, Skills and Attitude:

• Strong accounting knowledge and understanding of financial controls
• Advanced reconciliation and problem-solving skills
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines and handle high volumes
• Excellent communication and supervisory abilities
• High attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to interpret financial data and support management decisions
• Integrity, confidentiality, and professionalism
• Analytical and critical thinking
• Strong organisational and leadership ability
• Accountability and ownership

Application:

Qualifying interested applicants are requested to submit their applications to recruitment@millenniumfoods.co.za.
Application Deadline: 29 December 2025
If you have not received a response within two weeks of the closing date for applications, kindly consider your
application unsuccessful.

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