Junior Finance Manager

A fast-growing premium water solutions provider is seeking an analytical and detail-oriented Junior Finance Manager to join their established finance department in Cape Town. This role serves as a critical quality control layer, bridging the gap between the operational finance team and the senior Financial Manager.

The successful candidate will not focus on day-to-day transactional processing, but will instead take full ownership of overseeing, reviewing, and consolidating all financial data before it is presented to senior leadership. The position operates on a full-time, in-office basis with standard professional business hours.

Key Responsibilities

• Financial Reporting Quality Control: Act as the primary gatekeeper for all outgoing financial data, ensuring every report, reconciliation, and pack is complete and accurate before submission to the Financial Manager.
  

• Debtors & Creditors Oversight: Monitor and review monthly age analyses, ensuring the ledger accounts are fully reconciled by the respective Controllers and resolving complex or aged outstanding balances.
  

• Management Accounts Review: Perform rigorous analytical reviews on monthly management accounts prepared by the Senior Accountant, interrogating variances and verifying balance sheet reconciliations.
  

• Compliance & VAT Administration: Review monthly VAT reconciliations and classification of input/output VAT to ensure absolute compliance with SARS deadlines.
  

• Reporting Calendar Management: Maintain and coordinate the monthly finance calendar, driving accountability across the team to meet all reporting deadlines.
  

• Multi-Jurisdictional Support: Assist with intercompany reconciliations and support consolidated reporting requirements across international entities.
  

Requirements

• Completed SAICA-accredited articles.
  

• Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting (NQF Level 7) or equivalent tertiary qualification.
  

• Minimum of 2 years' post-article experience in a commercial accounting or financial management role.
  

• Prior experience working within a trading, import/export, or logistics environment.
  

• Direct exposure to multi-currency or cross-border transaction monitoring.
  

• Proven experience reviewing the financial outputs of other team members and ensuring reporting accuracy.
  

• Sound working knowledge of South African VAT legislation and IFRS for SMEs.
  

Required Software Skills

• Advanced Microsoft Excel
  

• Practical familiarity with Zoho Books or Zoho One software. (Advantageous)
  

Benefits

• Clear career progression within a rapidly growing, internationally structured organisation.
  

• Hands-on exposure to multi-jurisdictional finance and cross-border operations.