Accountant – Nissan Pinetown

Responsibilities

• Prepare and submit accurate monthly management accounts and financial statements by set deadlines.
• Perform general ledger reconciliations and ensure accuracy of all postings.
• Maintain and reconcile balance sheet accounts, including debtors, credits, and inventory.
• Monitor expenses and income to ensure alignment with budget.
• Monitor branch cashflow and oversee branch cash handling and petty cash controls.
• Support auditors (internal and external) and assist in resolving audit queries.
• Review and sign off the daily bank reconciliation.
• Ensure FIC reporting is correct and done timeously.
• Ensure all financial transactions are authorized and recorded correctly.
• Oversee and review vehicle debtors, parts, service, and OEM debtors.
• Monitor closely with the debtors clerk to ensure out-of-term debtors payments are resolved.
• Oversee creditors management (review for validity and accuracy).
• Authorize EFTs.
• EEA representative of the dealership, ensuring BEE meetings are conducted and the dealership statutory records are updated.
• Constantly analyse expense for cost saving and ensuring no abuse of expense.
• Ensure commission calculations are correct, collate and ensure timeous submission.
• Reconcile the payroll accounts.
• Liaising with head office regarding payroll changes (additions, removals).
• Ensure compliance with PAYE for casual staff and spotters.
• Provide documents and direct communication with MIBCO for their annual dealership audit.
• Maintain fixed asset register and ensure proper capitalization and depreciation.
• Prepare annual budgets and forecasts.
• Financial analysis of expenses and income for better decision making within the dealership.
• Liaise frequently with the Dealer Principal to ensure dealership operates efficiently.
• Ensure interbranch balances are processed and agree with corresponding branches.
• Prepare the dealership for year-end financial statement audit.
• Run a Daily DOC for management reflecting dealership profits, verifying all vehicles deals are correctly costed.
• Track and control vehicle floorplan ensuring payments are made timeously.
• Demo vehicle depreciation reconciliation
• IOD – RMA Submissions and communications
• Accident claim submissions and communications.
• Prepare and submit VAT returns and reconcile the VAT account monthly.
• Monitor and track Natis documents.
• Ensuring stock counts are accuracy and authorized on Autobid.
• Ensuring Work in progress count is done and reconciled.
• Assist invoicing clerks with corrections on units.
• Assist all departments with fixing errors/problem solving on Evolve (Liaising with Evolve if cannot be resolved within dealership).
• Supervise OEM general ledger factory account reconciliation.
• Monitor outstanding orders in the dealership.
• Ensure attendance register is being updated daily.
• Review some vehicle deal folders for accuracy, completeness, correct documentation.
• Review of the training register.
• Review of the BEE creditors register.
• Communicate with the parts manager to ensure parts order control has valid transactions.
• Monitor fair use of resources e.g. refreshments and stationery.
• Reconcile Finance Income monthly.
• Ensure there are no vehicle pre-invoicing at month end.