Assistant Accountant - Farmpack, Low's Creek

Description:

Introduction to the VKB Group

The VKB Group is an agricultural company, providing support to farmers and producing straight-from-the farm-foods for consumers. Apart from the various consumer brands, the VKB Group is also represented by its regional brands: VKB, GWK and NTK. Our roots are firmly planted in agriculture with farming at our core, continuously growing and evolving throughout the years.

Starting with providing everything needed on the farm to produce food, we now also operate in all areas of the food supply chain: processing, logistics, and national and global market channels.

This “house of brands” we’ve established with the support of our farmer shareholders is the foundation for building the agribusiness of the future.

More about Farmpack

Farmpack is located in Low’s Creek in the vicinity of Mbombela, Mpumalanga and supplies packaging material to the agricultural and business sectors.
The company produces and distributes a wide variety of boxes to clientele across the country as well as Mozambique and Eswatini.

Job Description

The successful candidate will be responsible to:

• coordinate, review and approve transactions on the accounting system of Farmpack (Pty) Ltd,
• ensure accurate and timeous processing according to financial procedures
• support the finance and admin functions through maintaining accurate day-to-day accounting operations and
• contributing to the preparation of financial information essential for decision making.

Requirements

• Relevant BCom degree with Accountancy and at least 5 years’ relevant experience in private sector accounting, OR
• Studying towards a relevant accounting degree with completed Articles (SAIPA/ SAICA)
• Applicable experience in a fast-moving operational environment.
• Experience in a manufacturing environment would be advantageous.
• Excellent computer skills and the ability to work with Excel on an advanced level.
• Experience on Microsoft Navision or Business Central will serve as recommendation.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Manage debtor and creditor accounts
• Approvals within mandate
• Updating and monitoring pricelists
• Reconciliation of control accounts
• Maintain fixed asset register and CAPWIP
• Assist with monthly stock take and Item journals
• Preparing month-end journals and reconciliation to be approved by the Financial Manager.
• Assist with internal and external audit files.
• Basic reporting and analysis
• Duties and responsibilities may grow and change as the candidate and department grow and change

Skills

• Decision making
• Ability to function independently within team context and to accept responsibility
• Ability to prioritize and work on own initiative, under pressure and meet deadlines.
• An indisputable drive to constantly add value to the business
• Strong analytical, numeracy and interpersonal skills
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Compliance
• Organizing
• Planning

Other Information

• The company can expire jobs at any time at their own discretion.
• VKB Group and/or its subsidiary companies will use any personal data collected through the job opportunities section of this website for recruitment purposes only and, should your application be successful, for purposes connected with your employment.
• VKB Group is an equal opportunity employer. VKB Group’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process aligned to VKB Group’s Employment Equity & Transformation Strategy. VKB Group actively supports the recruitment of People with Disabilities
• Things to take note of when applying through our Career Portal.
• Use Google Chrome when accessing the portal
• Clear copy of your CV in either PDF or Word
• The CV should not have handwriting on the document
• NB! Only Submit your CV on the Upload CV section of the application form and not a PDF that includes other documents such as ID, Driver’s License and other documents. The application form will make provision for the candidate to upload supporting documents.
• When uploading profile picture , make sure the minimum size uploaded is 300 x 300px

Requirements:

• coordinate, review and approve transactions on the accounting system of Farmpack (Pty) Ltd,
• ensure accurate and timeous processing according to financial procedures
• support the finance and admin functions through maintaining accurate day-to-day accounting operations and
• contributing to the preparation of financial information essential for decision making.

• Relevant BCom degree with Accountancy and at least 5 years’ relevant experience in private sector accounting, OR
• Studying towards a relevant accounting degree with completed Articles (SAIPA/ SAICA)
• Applicable experience in a fast-moving operational environment.
• Experience in a manufacturing environment would be advantageous.
• Excellent computer skills and the ability to work with Excel on an advanced level.
• Experience on Microsoft Navision or Business Central will serve as recommendation.

• Manage debtor and creditor accounts
• Approvals within mandate
• Updating and monitoring pricelists
• Reconciliation of control accounts
• Maintain fixed asset register and CAPWIP
• Assist with monthly stock take and Item journals
• Preparing month-end journals and reconciliation to be approved by the Financial Manager.
• Assist with internal and external audit files.
• Basic reporting and analysis
• Duties and responsibilities may grow and change as the candidate and department grow and change

• Decision making
• Ability to function independently within team context and to accept responsibility
• Ability to prioritize and work on own initiative, under pressure and meet deadlines.
• An indisputable drive to constantly add value to the business
• Strong analytical, numeracy and interpersonal skills
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Compliance
• Organizing
• Planning

• The company can expire jobs at any time at their own discretion.
• VKB Group and/or its subsidiary companies will use any personal data collected through the job opportunities section of this website for recruitment purposes only and, should your application be successful, for purposes connected with your employment.
• VKB Group is an equal opportunity employer. VKB Group’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process aligned to VKB Group’s Employment Equity & Transformation Strategy. VKB Group actively supports the recruitment of People with Disabilities
• Things to take note of when applying through our Career Portal.
• Use Google Chrome when accessing the portal
• Clear copy of your CV in either PDF or Word
• The CV should not have handwriting on the document
• NB! Only Submit your CV on the Upload CV section of the application form and not a PDF that includes other documents such as ID, Driver’s License and other documents. The application form will make provision for the candidate to upload supporting documents.
• When uploading profile picture , make sure the minimum size uploaded is 300 x 300px