Job Description
Fancy juggling four currencies, four jurisdictions, and a business that's actually going somewhere?
We're recruiting on behalf of a fast-growing, multinational group operating in a cutting-edge R&D space, with entities across South Africa, Lesotho, the UK, and further afield. This is a genuinely cross-border finance seat - real intercompany complexity, real FX exposure, and a business that moves at start-up pace rather than corporate pace. If you like your work varied and your environment autonomous, keep reading.
What you'll be doing
- Owning full accounts-to-balance-sheet processing for two of the group's entities - journals, GL, reconciliations, management accounts
- Managing accounts-to-trial-balance for the rest of the group
- Maintaining fixed asset registers - additions, disposals, depreciation, PPE recs
- Preparing statutory returns across applicable jurisdictions
- Processing and reconciling intercompany loans, recharges and balances across entities
- Handling foreign currency transactions, revaluations and exchange rate application
- Processing cross-border payments across multiple currencies
- Supporting audits, including running the local South African audit end-to-end
What we're looking for
- Completed accounting degree and articles (SAICA, SAIPA or CIMA)
- Some experience post-articles - you've had a taste of the real world and want more responsibility, not less
- Multicurrency, multi-entity exposure is a strong advantage
- Xero experience highly beneficial
- Comfortable in a less structured, entrepreneurial environment - you build your own process rather than waiting for one
- Bonus points for exposure to withholding tax, ApprovalMax, Syft Analytics, or using AI tools in your workflow
What's in it for you
- Genuine cross-border, multi-currency exposure most accountants don't get this early
- A flexible, hybrid working model in the Southern Suburbs office
- Real autonomy in a dynamic, scaling business
- Involvement in group-wide process and systems improvement, not just business as usual
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