Accounting & Finance Jobs in Durban

ð?? What You'll Be Doing:

• Full accounting function: AP, AR, GL, reconciliations, budgeting, and forecasting
• Prepare management accounts, costing analysis, and financial reporting
• Ensure compliance and implementation of IFRS across entities
• Compile group financial statements and comprehensive notes
• Consolidations
• Proven track record in financial statement preparation
• Strong forecasting skills across group entities (preferred)
• Advanced Excel skills (Pivot tables, V, H and Xlookup, formulas)
• Work closely with CEOs of international subsidiaries as a strategic finance partner
• Collaborate with the CFO of a multi-million-euro global organisation
• Drive insights and improvements in financial processes and business performance

� What Were Looking For:

• A mature-minded, resilient, and tenacious individual with a strong sense of ownership
• Ability to thrive in a high-pressure, fast-paced environment with changing priorities
• Proven experience in a full-spectrum management accounting or virtual FM-type role
• Strong technical knowledge and hands-on experience in IFRS implementation
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across senior levels

â?? Requirements:

• Relevant tertiary qualification in accounting/finance
• SAIPA/SAICA/CIMA advantageous but not essential
• Solid experience in management accounting, preferably in a multinational or shared services environment
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and business partnering skills
• High attention to detail and ability to meet tight deadlines

ð??? Why This Role?

• Be part of a global powerhouse, working alongside international leaders
• Play a pivotal role in decision-making and strategic finance
• Enjoy flexible working hours in an office-based, collaborative environment
• Massive opportunity for growth, exposure, and career acceleration

• Preparation of monthly and annual financial statements
• Compilation of management accounts and variance analysis
• Assisting with budgeting and forecasting processes
• General ledger maintenance and account reconciliations
• Ensuring compliance with IFRS and company policies
• Liaising with auditors and preparing audit packs
• Assisting with tax computations and statutory returns

• BCom Accounting (or equivalent degree)
• 35 years experience in a full-function accounting role
• Strong knowledge of financial reporting standards
• Proficient in MS Excel and accounting software (e.g. Sage, Pastel, Xero)
• Excellent attention to detail and time management skills
• Ability to work independently and meet deadlines

• Budgeting and forecasting
• Oversee financial reporting, monthly management accounts, cash flow management, and working capital optimization
• Ensure compliance with financial, tax, and statutory regulations
• Drive internal controls, risk management, and process improvements
• Manage external audits, stakeholder relationships, and banking matters
• Support operational teams with cost analysis, profitability reviews, and financial insights
  

• CA(SA)
• Minimum 5 years experience in a similar role
• Manufacturing / FMCG experience is essential

Role:
The role requires an individual with good communication skills and high organizational and ownership capacity. The ability to drive delivery through the facilitation of the team’s enablement is the aim. A servant leader, championing the agile principles, values and practices, as agreed to within the team, and where identified as being useful is required. Accountable for the team’s infrastructure (resourcing, planning, monitoring, reporting) as well as health (team dynamics, motivation, transparency), the role, if successful will move the team towards being self-organized, while delivering high quality, valuable work.

Tasks and Responsibilities:
Team Delivery:
• Lead/facilitate agile ceremonies: daily stand-ups, sprint planning (including effort sizing), sprint retrospectives,
• Maintain scrum board (TFS experience is advantageous), Product backlog, Sprint backlog
• Optimise team’s work focus: Clear obstacles for the team; Protect team from outside interference/ interruptions allowing them to focus on the work
• Ensure SDLC governances and best practice are complied with
• Grow the adoption of agile practices (champion & guardian)

Planning:
• Liaise with Product Owner and Clients around priorities, backlog grooming, sprint themes, delivery approaches, resourcing.
• Create short to medium-term flight plans to provide delivery context for larger deliveries

Reporting:
• Analyse team’s sprint performance; report on delivery progress and cadence

Personal effectiveness:
• Individually accountable for managing own time, tasks and output quality
• Communicates clearly and timeously
• Accountable for service delivery through own efforts
• Problem solving aptitude
• Collaborates effectively with others to meet deliveries
• Ability to work under pressure and meet strict deadlines
• Aligns to ways of working and team culture
• Knowledge and/or experience of working within either Agile and/or other project methodologies

Requirements:
• Tertiary qualification in Information Technology, Project Management or related fields
• Scrum Master certification
• Relevant Scrum Master experience in Financial Services IT
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, TeamFoundationServer

Kindly regard your application as unsuccessful if you have not heard from the agency within 2 weeks.

Investment Manager

We are seeking an experienced and results-driven Investment Manager to lead funding, relationship, and compliance efforts within a dynamic financial services environment. The role requires a seasoned professional with strong commercial acumen, regulatory understanding, and the ability to engage high-value clients across banking and investment portfolios.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone with a background in wealth or portfolio management, who thrives in a fast-paced, client-driven environment and enjoys shaping funding strategies aligned with business goals.

Role Overview

The Investment Manager will be responsible for promoting funding-related products, managing client onboarding and relationships, and ensuring adherence to compliance frameworks. The role involves close collaboration with internal treasury teams and external clients to ensure effective marketing of financial services, day-to-day funding operations, and sustainable client engagement.

Key Responsibilities

Marketing & Business Development

• Attract new investors and drive client engagement to meet Treasury and Executive targets
• Promote cross-selling of financial services (including loans, cross-border products)
• Represent the brand at client meetings and corporate functions
• Market all treasury products and funding solutions effectively

Internal & Treasury Operations

• Maintain strong working relationships with Treasury and back-office teams
• Provide accurate, market-related interest rate quotes and ensure timely trade confirmations
• Assist Treasury with liquidity management and regulatory reporting (LCR/NSFR)
• Implement daily funding strategies and contribute to long-term funding optimisation

Compliance & Risk Management

• Ensure all FICA/KYC documentation is complete and accurate
• Conduct AML risk assessments and ensure timely reporting of suspicious transactions
• Maintain up-to-date compliance registers and participate in internal audits
• Re-identify clients per regulatory requirements and update internal systems

Brand Expansion & Social Responsibility

• Participate in charity and hospitality events hosted by the office
• Support engagements with high-profile delegations and stakeholders

Qualifications & Experience

• A relevant degree in Finance, Investments, or related field (essential)
• 5–8 years of experience in the financial services industry, ideally in investment or wealth management
• Strong exposure to corporate banking, portfolio development, and relationship management
• Experience with compliance frameworks and internal risk controls
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• Full financial management up to trial balance
• Monthly reporting, budgeting, and forecasting
• Oversee tax compliance, audits, and IFRS reporting
• Manage cash flow and treasury functions
• Mentor and lead a team of accountants

• CA(SA) with 35 years' post-articles experience
• Strong IFRS, tax, and internal control knowledge
• Experience in project-based or infrastructure industries preferred

Are you a sharp, motivated finance professional looking to make an impact in a fast-growing, purpose-driven company? Our client is looking for a Financial Accountant to join their team. This is your opportunity to contribute to a business with operations across multiple geographies while developing your career in a fast-paced and ambitious environment.

Reporting to the Senior Financial Accountant, this role is central to ensuring accurate financial reporting, meeting tax and statutory requirements, and playing a key role in various finance improvement initiative

Duties and Responsibilities

• Oversee and review the bank reconciliations prepared by the bookkeepers.
• Ensure that all transactions processed in the general ledger for entities under your remit are valid, accurate and complete.
• Ensure that month-end financial packs including balance sheet reconciliations are prepared for the review of the Senior Financial Accountant within the stipulated deadlines.
• Preparation of accurate journals and monthly reconciliations with third party pay-in and pay-out partners.
• Assist the Group Tax team with the preparation of timely and accurate tax submissions for the entities under your remit.
• Assistance in the delivery of the year-end audit including drafting the statutory financial statements for review by the Senior Financial Accountant and Group Reporting Manager.
• Preparation of various other statutory or regulatory returns for the entities under your remit.
• Involvement in various finance improvement projects, including system implementations, month end process efficiencies, new market expansion and business maturity workstreams.
• Internal liaison with other departments to assist in solving commercials issues as they arise.

Key requirements

• Accounting degree (essential)
• Studying towards CA (SA), CIMA or SAIPA qualification (preferable)
• 2-3 years’ experience in a financial environment or completed articles (essential)
• Experience of multi-national Groups structures, preferably across the African continent and/or the UK (preferable)
• Finance business systems experience across ERP platforms, preferably Netsuite
• Experience in preparing VAT and Corporate tax returns which will be delivered in conjunction with the internal Tax function (preferable)
• Experience working in financial services or highly regulated industries beneficial (preferable)
• Experience working in high growth/fast-moving organisations (preferable)
• Advanced time management and organisational skills (essential)
• Advanced MS Office skills (essential)

Additional skills

• Passionate and enjoys working in a fast-paced, informal but extremely ambitious company.
• Hands-on self-starter
• Ability to work under pressure, commercial acumen, and cap
  
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• Lead and develop teams, ensuring a high-performance culture.
• Drive data-driven decision-making and manage performance.
• Implement business strategies and foster innovation.
• Build key relationships with partners, suppliers, and customers.

• Prioritize customer relationships and retention.
• Oversee new business sales and marketing strategies.

• Ensure compliance with service standards.
• Maximize profitability and develop competitive products.

• Manage financial performance, budgets, and cost control.
• Ensure effective risk management and ROI on investments.

• Lead digital transformation and innovation.
• Drive strategic growth opportunities.

• Oversee staffing, performance, and B-BBEE compliance.
• Foster a high-performance culture and accountability.

• Qualified CA(SA) is essential
• MBA qualification is highly preferred
• 15+ years post articles experience
• 7+ years top management experience in a Exco level
• Supply Chain, Logistics or similar experience is essential