Accountant

at  Fruitways

Fruitways is an agri-business that specialises in the growing, packing and marketing of apples and pears to retailers, traders and wholesalers around the globe.

• Prepare and collect monthly balance sheet reconciliations and ensure they meet company guidelines and requirements.
• Review and report exceptions for Creditors Control, Debtors Control, Salary and Wage Control, and Bank Reconciliation.
• Initiate, prepare, and process both standard and adjusting monthly journals, and distribute monthly general ledger reports to operational personnel.
• Maintain the general ledger, reconcile intercompany loans and transactions, investigate income statement variances, ensure all open batches are processed, and assist with Sage 300 module maintenance.
• Check, approve, and release EFT payments, and ensure the accuracy and validity of petty cash and credit card transactions.
• Collect stock take information from operational units, conduct monthly stock count inspections, and reconcile physical counts with theoretical stock values.
• Report stock variances to operational units and ensure resolutions and create new stock codes as needed.
• Provide guidelines and support for annual audit stock count preparations, including arranging and resourcing test counts by finance staff.
• Assist in the preparation and review of draft management accounts and forecast data analysis, supporting management accounting in producing accurate management account packs and monthly reports.
• Ensure that all process descriptions as documented, current and evaluated with management for efficiencies