Financial Manager

MasterStart is a skills provider that creates builds and delivers customised and contextualised online learning solutions for organisations that are seeking flexible innovative impactful and scalable solutions to deliver on their skills development requirements. We recruit selfstarters who have a passion for what they do. We empower them hold them accountable and reward them appropriately. We value proactivity and leadership in each role especially the way that this contributes to innovative thinking. We are a dynamic and diverse company working together in a fastpaced environment with the sole aim of providing accurate and useful financial information. This role looks after the MasterStart Group and reports into the CFO. The responsibilities include assurance that all transactions reconciliations and reporting are accounted for accurately completely and reported on timeously. The role requires the candidate to be highly numerate well organised deadline driven. Responsibilities:

• Review of Monthly Management Reports including signing off on all review files and reconciliation for both income statement and balance sheet schedules.
• Intercompany billing calculations to ensure appropriate billing across entities and in line with contracts (includes review of prepayments and accruals to ensure all costs are billed).
• Review of all Monthly Finance Reports for universities.
• Ensure that all accounting is in line with the Group s accounting policies and procedures.
• Ensure standardisation of reporting and schedules across all entities is maintained.
• Prepare monthly management reports for the Board pack for CFO.
• Audit:

• First review of all audit files.
• Ensure all audit files are in the manner required for annual audits.
• Ensure audit files and all supporting schedules are in the standardised format to ensure ease of consolidation for group accounts.

• Payments:

• Review of payments both external and group.
• Ensure that all payments are run through the PO system and drive the implementation of this system.

• Review monthend journals. Prepare and capture journals if needed.
• Capex:

• Review fixed asset register and intangible asset register maintenance.
• Ensure any course development has been capitalised in the accounting records and appropriate amortisation and been applied. WIP requires monthly reconciliation and review.

• First review of monthly payroll of 2 group companies.
• Tax:

• First review of Monthly VAT submission and EMP payroll submissions
• First review of Income Tax Returns both ITR14 and Provisional Tax Returns statutory annual returns.
• Create the monthly corporate tax schedule for the relevant entities that will become the quarterly and annual disclosure support.

• Debtors control reporting assistance to the sales department
• Sales reconciliations management
• Project accounting processing including individual project Income Statement reports and reconciliations.
• Margin analysis and variance analysis.
• Cash flow forecasting.
• Assist in the preparation of the annual budget and updating monthly forecasts.
• Ensure prompt and accurate monthend and yearend close processes.
• Overseeing accounting operations such as accounts payable accounts receivable and general ledger entries.
• Consolidation of group management reports.
• Assisting CFO with the management of the finance team.

Accountant Qualifications / Skills:

• Requirements:

• B Com (Accounting) with completed Articles with CTA/Post Graduate Diploma in Accounting or Honours Degree in Accounting.
• AGA (SA) CA (SA) CIMA ACCA or equivalent would be advantageous.

• Skills & Experience:

• Minimum 2 years Financial Manager experience in similar size companies.
• At least 1 year experience working with Xero accounting software.
• Consolidation experience.
• Knowledge of IFRS.
• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Demonstrable success in working in fast growth entrepreneurial businesses.
• Excellent written / oral communications skills.
• Highly flexible the ability to live and act in a climate of change.
• Passionate about delivering an outstanding service.
• High integrity and a genuine approach treating all colleagues with respect
• Able to demonstrate long term commitment and contribution to business success.
• Selfmotivated with strong initiative. Meet and exceed all that is required of you in your job.
• Highly computer literate and comfortable with basic technical aspects of common operating systems.
• Competent professional business written and verbal communications skills
• The ability to express yourself clearly and effectively within the company
• Excellent time management organizational and followthrough skills. Disciplined approach by being punctual getting back to customers suppliers and internal staff and returning calls.
• Attention to detail while maintaining the ability to see the implications for the bigger picture.
• An ability to respond quickly and accurately to requests.
• A creative outlook with a problemsolving attitude.
• Aligned with Masterstart s zerotolerance approach to corrupt business. activities and maintaining the highest ethical standards in our dealings with all stakeholders.

Benefits:

• Salary is market related and based on previous experience.
• Ability to work remotely for the majority of the time going into the office in Cape Town once a week.
• Access to MasterStart Courses
• Employee Assistance Program

This position requires trust and honesty; it has access to customers financial details therefore a credit and criminal record check will be conducted. The qualifications identified herein are an inherent job requirement; therefore a qualification verification check will be done. By applying for this role and supplying the necessary details you hereby grant us permission to apply for these checks. This will be done in a confidential manner and solely for the purposes of verification.