- 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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