Financial Accountant ( Maternity Cover)
At a glance
Mid-level Accounting role at Absolute Pets. Cape Town · contract.
Pay not stated Financial Accountant salary
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What you'll do
- Prepare monthly pay for roughly eight hundred staff, using roster and clocking records to work out hours
- Compare time registers with leave records, follow up on mismatches with managers and correct hours after clocking feedback
- Process hires, departures, incentives, deductions and overtime, while maintaining employee details and responding to payroll questions
- Reconcile payroll ledger accounts and the payroll bank account, and compile payroll variance and staff turnover reports
- Reconcile company card spending, manage card orders and cancellations, and handle insurance claims and finance administration
What you bring
- You have experience preparing and processing payroll for a large employee group
- You can reconcile payroll accounts and bank activity and prepare related reports
Who this fits
This contractor role covers a maternity leave through 31 May 2027, based in Cape Town. You'll focus mainly on payroll, with reporting and other finance work alongside it.
From the employer
Overview
Absolute Pets is the leading pet care retailer in South Africa with over 200 stores nationwide. The Company caters to a high-end customer with premium products for pets ranging from pet food to health & wellness products and accessories. Absolute Pets is looking for a Financial Accountant for a maternity cover until 31 May 2027. The successful candidate will largely be providing support with the processing of payroll, with all duties included below:
Payroll
Responsible for the preparation and processing of the monthly payroll for approximately 800 employees which involves:
- Processing hours from rosters/clocking.
- Compiling the clocking issue report based on rosters and clocking issue tickets from Think Time, to reflect the hours worked and late comings.
- Preparing time register reports for all staff, reconciling short hours to leave reports and following up on discrepancies with their managers.
- To review clocking feedback and adjust hours accordingly.
- Multiple incentive workings.
- Record keeping of sundry deductions, garnishees, staff loans and advances.
- New hires and terminations processing – new hires clocking and backpay + leavers clocking and termination leave.
- Variance report compiled with adjustment tracker (Payroll Tracker updates) checked and sent for review by financial manager.
- Overtime checks. Ensuring that all overtime applications submitted are approved and then captured on the payroll system.
- Accurate capturing and processing of employee information. Maintenance of employee banking details. Staff movement tracking for reporting purposes.
- Manage all payroll related queries.
- Monthly reconciliation of all payroll related GL accounts.
- Preparing the staff turnover report.
Financial Reporting:
- Weekly Damaged & Expired Stock reporting
- Weekly Pet Spa Price Changes reporting
- Scorecards publishing
- Monthly Stock Transfer reporting
- Monthly Departmental Reporting checks
Financial Processing:
- Credit Cards
- Processing, reporting and reconciliation of all company credit card spend.
- Ordering, renewal and cancelling of credit cards.
Payroll Cashbook Processing
- Processing and reconciliation of the payroll bank account.
Other:
- Dealing with any company insurance claims.
- Finance admin and filing.
- Assisting as needed with other ad-hoc projects.
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