Are you the kind of accountant who looks at a manual process and immediately sees three ways to speed it up?

A well-established Cape Town manufacturing group is bringing in an experienced Senior Accountant on a six-month contract to hold the fort while they build out their finance leadership. This is a hands-on, multi-entity role with real ownership from day one. You will be stepping into a function that has been running on manual effort for a while, so there is plenty of room to make things sharper as you go. 

What you'll be doing

• Running cashbooks across multiple entities, including petty cash and trust accounts
• Preparing and submitting SARS returns: VAT recons and submissions, PAYE, TCC, and handling VAT audit schedules
• Processing and reconciling credit card schedules, rep expenses and sundry payments
• Handling month-end: intercompany clearing of debtors and creditors to loan accounts, management fee and divisional recovery journals, export and intercompany COS reallocations, payroll journals and standard monthly journals
• Owning the full monthly balance sheet reconciliation pack, including purchase accrual review
• Finding the efficiencies: bringing better use of systems and data to work that is currently done by hand

Are you a hands-on finance professional who enjoys understanding what really drives a business, not just reporting the numbers after the fact?

This is a great opportunity to join an established Cape Town-based manufacturing business in a broad finance role with real exposure to costing, pricing, margins, stock and operational decision-making.

What makes the opportunity interesting?

You won’t be sitting in a narrow reporting role. You’ll work closely with the operational side of the business, helping management understand costs, margins and pricing while keeping a strong handle on the core financial accounting function.

Depending on your experience, there is also scope for the role to grow beyond a single entity and into broader group-level responsibility.

You’ll get involved in:

• Monthly management accounts, budgeting and financial analysis
• Costing and margin analysis
• Pricing reviews and assessing the impact of supplier increases
• Updating pricing for manufactured recipes
• Inventory control and coordinating stock counts
• Reviewing stock balances and margins
• Month-end processing and general ledger accounting
• Bills of materials
• Supporting branches and management with financial information and analysis
• Oversight of tax and compliance submissions

An opportunity has become available for a detail-oriented and proactive finance professional to support the day-to-day financial operations of a growing business, ensuring accuracy, strong cash flow management, and reliable reporting for decision-making.

Why join this team?

• Play a key role in maintaining financial accuracy and operational efficiency
• Gain exposure across the full finance function, from transactions to management accounts
• Work in a hands-on environment where your input directly supports business decisions
• Be part of a team that values organisation, accountability, and continuous improvement

What you will be doing:

• Manage full debtors function including invoicing, collections, and reconciliations
• Process supplier invoices, reconcile accounts, and prepare payment schedules
• Maintain daily cashbook and perform regular bank reconciliations
• Monitor and report on cash flow, assisting with forecasting and planning
• Prepare and process EFT payments with proper authorisation and documentation
• Perform general ledger reconciliations and resolve discrepancies
• Maintain fixed asset register including acquisitions, disposals, and depreciation
• Oversee petty cash administration and reconciliations
• Assist with monthly management accounts, reporting, and budgeting processes
• Provide general administrative support and assist with audits and compliance

Numbers only tell the full story when someone is watching every detail. We're looking for a meticulous, commercially-minded Bookkeeper to take ownership of our financial administration and give management a clear, accurate picture of every project and the business as a whole. Our client is in the interior design industry with multiple client projects on the go and are looking for someone to work closely with the project managers ensuring accurate financial administration and cash flow management. 

Why join this team?

• This isn't a basic data-entry bookkeeping role. You will work across client invoicing, project cost tracking, supplier payments and payroll, connecting the dots between client approvals, project costs and financial outcomes. If you enjoy getting to the bottom of a discrepancy rather than just flagging it, this role gives you real ownership over how the numbers come together.

What you will be doing:

• Prepare and issue client invoices and statements, and follow up on overdue accounts
• Allocate project costs, supplier invoices and payments to the correct client or project
• Capture, verify and process supplier invoices and payment schedules
• Reconcile supplier statements, client accounts and bank accounts
• Process company expenses, credit card transactions and staff reimbursements
• Prepare and process monthly payroll, payslips and leave records
• Maintain VAT records and support month-end and year-end accounting processes
• Prepare financial reports, aged receivables/payables and project cost summaries for management
• Maintain accurate Excel/Google Sheets trackers and an organised filing system
• Liaise with clients, suppliers, staff and the company's accountant or payroll provider
• Identify and investigate discrepancies, duplicate payments and unusual transactions

Do you thrive on bringing order to complex accounts and building strong working relationships? We're looking for a Creditors Manager to lead the creditors function and team of clerks, helping keep the wheels of a fast-paced logistics operation turning smoothly.

Why join this team?

This role sits at the heart of our client's transport operations, where accurate payments, strong stakeholder relationships, and tight financial controls all come together. You'll lead a dedicated creditors team, manage relationships with transporters, and take ownership of processes that keep the accounts payable team running efficiently. It's a role for someone who takes pride in getting the detail right while also seeing the bigger picture.

What you will be doing:

• Leading, motivating, and developing the creditors team to hit departmental goals
• Managing HR responsibilities including performance management, recruitment, and disciplinary processes
• Supporting staff performance, providing training, and handling grievances or conflict resolution
• Reporting weekly to the Finance Manager on outstanding queries, staffing, and new starters
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with transporters, including on-boarding and regular check-ins
• Reviewing creditor reconciliations monthly and uploading approved payments to the accounting system
• Ensuring compliance with internal policies, accounting standards, and regulatory requirements
• Identifying opportunities to automate and improve creditors processes

A private investment and business environment is looking for an experienced and highly organised Bookkeeper to provide financial and administrative support across a portfolio of companies, trusts and related entities.
This is a varied, hands-on bookkeeping position that will suit someone who enjoys taking ownership of day-to-day financial administration and ensuring that records across multiple entities are accurate, organised and up to date. Formal accounting, tax and monthly financial reporting are managed by external accountants and professional advisors. The Bookkeeper will therefore play an important role in maintaining the underlying financial records, completing reconciliations, managing supporting documentation and ensuring that the external accounting team receives everything required timeously. The position is a half day opportunity, predominantly mornings, and offers considerable flexibility.

What you will be doing:

Bookkeeping & Financial Administration

• Maintain accurate bookkeeping records across multiple companies, trusts and related entities
• Capture and reconcile day-to-day financial transactions
• Complete bank and account reconciliations
• Process and maintain invoices, expenses, receipts and supporting documentation
• Monitor transactions and ensure financial records remain complete and up to date
• Assist with routine banking administration and transaction confirmations
• Maintain supporting records across various bank accounts and entities
• Collate monthly bank statements and financial documentation
• Gather and maintain FICA and other relevant compliance documentation
• Prepare and organise financial information for external accountants and tax practitioners
• Liaise with accountants regarding queries, outstanding information and supporting documentation
• Assist with payroll administration and payroll-related payments
• Maintain accurate bookkeeping records using Xero
• Support payroll processing and administration using SimplePay
• Ensure all financial information and supporting documentation is clearly organised and audit-ready

Company & Trust Administration

• Assist with routine financial administration relating to private companies and trusts
• Maintain organised entity and financial records
• Coordinate financial documentation requiring approval or signature
• Track outstanding financial and administrative requirements
• Liaise with accountants, tax practitioners, bankers, payroll providers and other professional advisors as required

Ad-Hoc Administration

• While this is predominantly a bookkeeping and financial administration position, the successful candidate will occasionally assist with broader administrative requirements
  
• This may include maintaining electronic filing systems, coordinating documentation, following up with service providers and assisting with general ad-hoc administration where required
  
• The administrative component is secondary to the core bookkeeping function

Are you the person who looks at a set of numbers and immediately starts asking, “What is this telling us, and what should we do differently?”

We’re looking for a highly analytical, commercially curious Commercial & Financial Analyst who can turn complex data into meaningful business insight.

This is not a role for someone who simply produces reports. You’ll be at the heart of the commercial decision-making process, working across the business to uncover trends, challenge assumptions, understand customer behaviour and help shape smarter decisions around pricing, promotions, products, marketing initiatives and business growth.

The opportunity

You’ll become a key analytical partner to senior management and cross-functional teams including Marketing, Operations, New Product Development and Procurement.

Using financial, operational and customer data, you’ll help answer the questions that really matter:

• What is driving sales performance?
• Which products and promotions are delivering?
• Where are margins being won or lost?
• How are customers behaving?
• What is the return on commercial initiatives?
• Where are the opportunities to improve performance?

You’ll take the data beyond the dashboard and turn it into actionable recommendations.

Do you thrive on leading teams and driving technical excellence in a fast-paced professional services environment? We're looking for an experienced Tax Manager to take the reins of a busy tax department and help shape the future of tax compliance for a diverse client base.

Why join this team?

This role goes beyond compliance. You'll set the strategic direction for the tax department, build and mentor a strong team of tax professionals, and act as the trusted technical voice for clients and colleagues alike. It's a chance to combine hands-on technical work with genuine leadership impact.

What you will be doing:

• Take full ownership of the management, performance, and strategic direction of the Tax Department
• Lead, supervise, mentor, and develop the tax team, ensuring high-quality service delivery and professional growth
• Manage departmental workflow, resource allocation, deadlines, and client deliverables
• Stay actively involved in day-to-day tax compliance, including preparation, review, and submission of returns across all tax types
• Drive continuous improvement by implementing best practices and raising professional standards

How'd you like to be part of the financial backbone behind cutting-edge industrial monitoring technology?

Picture a young, fast-moving tech and engineering business that's cracked something genuinely clever: technology that measures and monitors the performance of industrial machinery for major global players. Now picture stepping into their finance function as a key member of a team that actually likes working together and gets things done. That's this role.

What you'll be doing:

• Capturing and processing supplier invoices, credit notes, customer invoices and receipts
• Processing bank statements and verifying financial documentation for accuracy
• Reconciling supplier statements and resolving invoice discrepancies
• Managing the open PO list and GRIR process
• Allocating customer payments and following up on outstanding accounts
• Preparing journal entries and assisting with balance sheet reconciliations
• Maintaining the fixed asset register
• Supporting month-end close, reporting, and audit requirements
• Maintaining finance filing systems and supporting process improvement initiatives

Numbers tell stories, and this role is all about making sure the right people hear them. If you love turning wholesale data into decisions that shape strategy, this one's worth a closer look.

Our client is a well-established retail and wholesale group operating across multiple trading entities, with a strong reputation for brand growth and a collaborative, values-driven culture. They're looking for a commercially minded finance professional to join their team.

As Finance Business Partner in Wholesale, you'll own the full budgeting and forecasting cycle for the wholesale channel across seven trading entities. You'll work closely with the Wholesale Commercial Manager, providing the financial insight that drives strategic account planning, pricing decisions, and profitability. This is a role where your analysis directly influences commercial outcomes.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead annual budgeting and coordinate monthly/quarterly forecasting across all trading entities
• Provide margin, pricing, and profitability analysis to support key account negotiations
• Prepare monthly performance reports, tracking budget vs actual and flagging variances
• Evaluate investment proposals and trade-spend ROI
• Present wholesale channel performance in management forums
• Partner cross-functionally with supply chain, operations, and FP&A teams