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Finance Administrator at Pick n Pay Stores Limited

  • Job Type Full Time
  • Qualification Matric
  • Experience 2 – 5 years
  • Location Western Cape
  • City Cape Town
  • Job Field Finance / Accounting / Audit 

Finance Administrator at Pick n Pay Stores Limited

Finance Administrator

  • The Finance Administrator is responsible for maintaining the General Ledger and ensuring accurate records to the point of providing the trial balance for reporting purposes.
  • This includes tasks related to financial reporting, analysis and compliance i.e. performing critical reconciliation and ensuring reoccurring and adjustment journals.

Minimum requirements

  • Matric / Grade 12
  • 2 – 5 years’ experience in general accounting or related fields
  • Proven computer literacy
  • Prove excel proficiency
  • 2 – 5 years SAP Experience

Competencies

  • Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
  • Strong analytical, logical, and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to prioritise tasks and work under demanding deadlines
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • High level of integrity and discretion when handling sensitive information
  • Self-motivated and customer orientated
  • Ability to work as part of a team and individually
  • Ability to use own discretion and make recommendations to support continuous improvement
  • Proven flair for figures and problem solving

​​​​​​​Key Responsibilities

Reporting   

  • Ensure contractual costs are accounted for in management account – check that it is in line with SLA
  • Process the allocations of relevant expenses to the respective business units within the company
  • Report on the allocations in relation to the completeness, timelines and cycles as well as exceptions together with changes
  • Ensure that accruals are complete and current within the correct reporting period
  • Ensure that the respective expenses are recorded in the management account to the correct profit center and general ledger
  • Produce required reports for various areas in the business based on
  • requirements and business focus areas
  • Distribute exception reporting to the business for entries that will affect the management account as result of changes in postings and allocations

Compliance

  • Ensure the line items (Expenses and Income) are recorded in line with accounting practices
  • Manage purchase order process by ensuring that orders are generated timeous and to the correct general ledger and profit center
  • Ensure that costs are accounted for to the correct general ledger within the correct reporting period
  • Process journals and intercompany journals for complex entries – expenses and accruals
  • Process accrual reversal, ensuring that no old accruals remain and that valid open accruals are in place

Communication

  • Manage the open orders within the business to ensure we have the expenses accounted for, liabilities incurred from services rendered, and goods (assets) delivered
  • Communicate queries that arise from incorrect reporting that may occur with
  • incorrect PO creation or invoice posting
  • Provide commentary on expense general ledger to budget variance and growth against last year
  • Provide commentary on accruals when checking the movement against
  • previous year and prior month to ensure that there is no unaccounted liability
  • Assist store manager with their expense line items that feedback into the P&Ls

​​​​​​​Closing date: 19th December 2025

Method of Application

Interested and qualified? Go to Pick n Pay Stores Limited on picknpay.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com to apply

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