Compass Group: Skills Development & Finance Administrator Opportunity

Responsible to execute financial administrative tasks and process skills development data within and for the Performance & Development department

Education and experience required

• 2 years previous experience in an administrative financial or equivalent role
• Finance related Diploma/Degree
• SAP experience preferred
• Must have experience with drafting and maintaining budgets
• Knowledge of Credit Management, Credit Bureau, Credit Act and Companies Act preferred
• Knowledge of Skills Development, SETA and stipends preferred
• Excellent MS Office skills – Excel non negotiable
• Must have worked on an accounting package

Knowledge, Skills and Competencies required

• Able to work with large values of money
• Accurate accounting skills
• Good people skills
• Attention to detail and methodical approach
• Good understanding of debits and credits
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong verbal and written English ability
• Self-motivated and ability to adapt to a changing environment
• Excellent report writing skills
  • Time management skills – ability to prioritise and adhere to deadlines
  • Attention to detail – meticulous and accurate
  • Strong organisational skills (able to manage various tasks and projects simultaneously)

Key areas of responsibilities:

• Key responsibility is to manage financial administration for stakeholders on an ongoing basis, ensure that an accurate reconciliation is executed on each project, and be a custodian of the skills development process.
• Maintain budgets for each project and provide feedback to project owner
• Assist with salary confirmations for learnerships at Compass
• Allocate and collate costings for expenses to correct accounts
• Support P&D Manager with regards to financial accuracy and data integrity
• Compare daily receivables to bank statement and escalate any discrepancies to Manager and/or Internal Audit
• Complete month-end procedures:
• Receive all financial data from relevant stakeholders
• Identify missing data and take required steps to resolve or raise accruals if unable to do so in the stipulated month-end timelines with reversals in the next period
• Finalising stakeholder billing with confirmation from Manager
• Issue project specific General Ledger Reports to the Manager
• Obtain sign-off in writing from the Manager
  • Assist Finance Business Partner with reconciliation of GL accounts and raise any issues identified e.g. provisions, accruals
  • Collate and store data related to skills development
  • Provide Stakeholders with related skills development information
  • Contribute to the improvement of systems and procedures related to processing skills development data
  • Adhoc reporting
    • Maintaining filing systems for all records
    • Analyse data from Excel
    • Manage the skills database
    • Administer purchasing and procurement information

General:

• At critical times, overtime work may be required to ensure month end timelines are met
• Teamwork is essential and working together with fellow colleagues in your department is required of you
• Must be able to effectively function within a pressurised and fast paced environment
• All of the above to be executed in line with the values of Compass Group SA

Closing date:

Send responses to: [email protected]

Compass Group South Africa is committed to Employment Equity in line with legislation and will give first preference to candidates as per Equity requirements.

Please consider your application not successful should you not receive communication within 2 weeks from closing date.

Kindly note that your CV will be entered into a Talent Pool and that we may contact you for future opportunities.