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17 Jun
2026
Permanant Group Accountant | Cashbuild Vacancies
Job Description
Cashbuild Vacancies – Group Accountant
Job Type: Permanant
Company: Cashbuild
Job Location: Johannesburg South, South Africa
Group Accountant
Company: Cashbuild
Location: Johannesburg South, South Africa
Cashbuild is seeking a dedicated and experienced Group Accountant to join our finance team. This crucial role involves preparing all necessary information, calculations, and reports to ensure compliance for the Group and its subsidiaries with accounting obligations under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), JSE listing requirements, and the Companies Act. If you are a CA(SA) with strong analytical skills and a proven ability to work under pressure, we encourage you to apply.
Key Responsibilities
Monthly Reporting
- Perform monthly calculations, reconciliations, and reporting in a timely manner.
- Ensure internal reporting aligns with IFRS and advise line management on any discrepancies and their impact on Group external reporting.
- Analyze financial results to identify trends and present them to line management.
- Prepare and finalize quarterly board pack financial information.
- Undertake ad hoc reporting as required.
Financial Statement Preparations
- Prepare and finalize Group and subsidiary financial statements, ensuring IFRS compliance.
- Coordinate and manage the timely approval of financial statements by all relevant parties.
- Assess Group policies and ensure consistent application across all subsidiaries, identifying and communicating implications of non-compliance and proposing solutions.
- Ensure external reporting adheres to IFRS.
SAP Hierarchy Maintenance
- Maintain accurate company structures, hierarchies, and charts of accounts.
- Ensure regular and timely updates are made according to approved requests.
- Assign ownership for all General Ledger accounts for reconciliation purposes.
Forex
- Maintain and update company and Group currency exchange rates across reporting systems.
- Monitor and communicate significant currency fluctuations to management.
- Calculate and assess the reasonableness of foreign currency revaluations.
Ad Hoc Group Related Projects
- Complete assigned projects by management, which may involve investigation, proposal development, and implementation.
Qualifications and Skills
- Minimum NQF 8 (Chartered Accountant – CA(SA)).
- Completed CA article training contract.
- Deadline-driven and flexible.
- Ability to work effectively under pressure.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Dynamic and proactive approach.
Core Competencies
Lead with Vision
- Establish clear and compelling outcomes for the area of responsibility.
- Develop appropriate action plans to achieve these outcomes.
- Ensure team members understand their contribution to departmental objectives.
- Motivate employees towards achieving established outcomes.
- Proactively identify and address issues and risks that may impede departmental delivery.
Provide Direction
- Develop operational plans to achieve set objectives.
- Ensure adherence to policies and procedures within the area of responsibility.
- Act as a role model for company values, motivating and supporting employees to align with the vision, mission, and values.
Drive for Results
- Continuously seek and act on opportunities for departmental improvement.
- Strive to exceed set goals.
- Develop challenging goals for self and the department, working tenaciously to achieve them.
- Implement clear control mechanisms to measure performance against objectives.
- Identify and persistently overcome performance barriers.
- Assist team members in achieving their goals.
- Proactively anticipate and act on trends and evolving needs.
Think Strategically
- Identify gaps or inconsistencies in business results, performance data, processes, or systems by recognizing patterns in information.
- Prepare contingency plans for identified problems and potential future situations.
- Take considered action to prevent short-term issues from escalating.
Solve Problems
- Proactively identify problems and seek root causes.
- Analyze information objectively, identifying gaps or inconsistencies in operational results, performance data, processes, or systems.
- Develop and implement appropriate action plans, breaking down complex tasks into manageable parts.
Make Decisions
- Make decisions within the framework of company policies and set timelines.
- Consider the consequences of decisions made within the area of responsibility.
- Implement decisions in line with agreed processes and policies.
- Stand by own beliefs and decisions with self-confidence.
Plan
- Establish priorities and operational plans ensuring optimal resource utilization within the area of responsibility.
- Consider the impact of planning on organizational processes, budgets, resource availability, and the external environment.
Empower
- Mentor and coach subordinates, dedicating time to one-on-one coaching and support.
- Collaborate with subordinates to create individual development plans linked to business, team, and individual needs.
- Delegate tasks to individuals at the appropriate level.
Manage Performance
- Follow through on commitments to achieve set objectives and targets.
- Take accountability for own and subordinates’ actions, implementing corrective action where necessary.
- Define clear and challenging departmental goals and standards aligned with strategic initiatives.
- Implement and manage control mechanisms to ensure departmental objectives are met.
- Utilize appropriate behavioral skills to resolve operational performance problems.
- Act as a role model, motivating others to achieve high standards of quality and efficiency.
- Identify employees’ strengths and weaknesses, implementing appropriate development plans.
Handle Pressure
- Manage pressure effectively, maintaining consistent control over responses regardless of time or workload pressures.
- Remain focused and rational, displaying self-confidence in difficult situations without showing frustration or anger.
- Calm others who are expressing frustration or anger.
Innovate
- Generate unique alternatives, options, or solutions to problems.
Manage Change
- Manage planned changes resulting from internal or external circumstances.
- Ensure the department responds to the changing environment and stakeholder needs and expectations.
Influence
- Persuade and influence others towards a point of view as a leader, demonstrating self-awareness and awareness of others and the context.
- Display appropriate written and oral communication skills tailored to the audience.
- Project credibility and confidence, even when faced with obstacles.
Assert Authority
- Communicate points effectively with credibility and self-confidence, ensuring adherence to policies despite work pressures.
- Assert self during interpersonal situations.
- Maintain and project confidence in adverse circumstances.
- Make a clear and concise positive personal impact.
- Facilitate open, direct, two-way communication.
- Express disagreement with peers or senior colleagues tactfully and appropriately.
Collaborate
- Recognize and effectively address conflict among team members.
- Improve communication to bring team conflicts into the open and facilitate resolution.
- Make a concerted effort to collaborate and build rapport with internal stakeholders to find solutions to situations leading to conflict and misunderstanding.
Communicate
- Assess audience needs to deliver appropriate messages and content.
- Apply communication strategies to ensure input from stakeholders is discussed and acted upon.
- Actively share information and ideas, encouraging others to share their views and concerns.
- Recognize and proactively address situations with the potential for miscommunication that could damage relationships.
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