1 Plant Accounting jobs in South Africa

• Prepare annual budgets, forecasts, and cashflows for the smaller group companies, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely submission;


• Oversee inventory transactions and ensure accurate reconciliation between the stock and finance systems, while driving automation and process integration to enhance efficiency;


• Manage the accounting processes and financial reporting for smaller group companies;


• Prepare audit related schedules as and when require;


• Ensure a robust cost control environment, working capital discipline, and accurate accruals;


• Provide leadership by acting as a resource, coach, and mentor, while setting clear team goals aligned with business objectives;


• Drive accountability and high performance by monitoring outputs, enforcing deadlines, and supporting continuous adherence to finance policies;


• Lead by example to foster a collaborative, disciplined and results-oriented work environment that recognises and rewards success;


• Support team members in overcoming barriers to productivity and goal achievement;


• Handle sensitive and confidential matters with professionalism, discretion, and sound judgment;


• Manage the accountants responsible for inventory reconciliations and the accounting of smaller group companies;


• Produce accurate monthly and quarterly financial reports, ensuring reconciliations are complete and aligned with IFRS and company policies;


• Report on inventory movements, reconciliations between stock and finance systems, and results of smaller group companies;


• Conduct variance analysis on stock movements and direct operating costs, reporting significant deviations to stakeholders with clear explanations and actionable recommendations;


• Manage the relationship between auditors and the Finance Department, ensuring all audit queries are resolved efficiently and accurately;


• Review and approve audit schedules to ensure completeness, accuracy, and compliance with IFRS and company policies, while confirming the audit readiness of smaller group companies’ accounts;


• Assist the Senior Manager: Finance in the annual audit process by coordinating information and deliverables from team members and other departments;


• Engage with internal stakeholders (Operations, Supply Chain, Commercial, and other Finance teams) to ensure finance-related processes are completed accurately and on time;


• Collaborate with external partners, auditors, and service providers to maintain accurate reconciliations, resolve queries, and ensure compliance;


• Support negotiations or reviews of financial terms by preparing accurate data, reconciliations, variance explanations, and scenario analysis;


• Participate in discussions and negotiations with regulatory and government bodies (e.g., ACSA, ATNS), reviewing and challenging the basis for proposed price increases or charges to safeguard the organisation’s interests;


• Ensure compliance of accounting records are accurate and comply with IFRS;


• Drive adherence to finance policies and procedures across departments, escalating non-compliance to the Senior Manager: Finance;


• Maintain compliance with all relevant legislation and regulatory requirements;


• Apply a thorough understanding of contractual agreements and regulatory charges to ensure accurate billing, accruals, and allocations;


• Ensure smaller group companies’ accounts comply with statutory filing requirements.

• Grade 12 or Equivalent (Essential);


• BCom degree in Finance or Accounting (Essential);


• BCom Honours in Finance or Accounting OR 6 years Aviation experience (Essential);


• Professional certification such as SAIPA, SAICA or relevant (Essential);


• Chartered Accountant CA (SA) (Advantageous);


• 10 years’ Finance experience in a mid-sized organisation, of which, 3 years’ must have been in a management role (Essential);


• Must have completed articles (Essential);


• Experience in budget preparation and reporting (Essential);


• Experience in the preparing and finalising accounts in accordance with current South African regulations (Essential);


• Exposure to working across multiple systems and ensuring reconciliations between finance and operational systems (Essential);


• Experience in an accounting software package (Advantageous).

Personal Attributes:

• Professional;


• High integrity;


• High degree of patience and assertiveness;


• Must have a passion for costing/accounting;


• Initiative-taking;


• Ethical, tactful, dependable and accountable;


• Process- and results-driven;


• Self-motivated;


• Reliable and committed;


• Dependable and flexible.

Application Guideline:

• Email applications will not be accepted;


• Preference will be given to members of under-represented designated groups;


• Should no feedback be provided within two (2) weeks from the closing date, please consider your application as unsuccessful.

FlySafair reserves the right:

• Not to proceed with this vacancy;


• To appoint the selected candidates based on its operational requirements.

Closing Date: 10 October 2025