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15 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
Johannesburg South, South Africa
Cashbuild is seeking a meticulous and qualified Group Accountant to join our finance team. This pivotal role involves preparing all necessary financial information, calculations, and reports to ensure compliance for the Group and its subsidiaries with accounting obligations. You will be responsible for adherence to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), JSE listing requirements, the Companies Act, and other relevant group information.
Key Responsibilities
Monthly Reporting
- Perform monthly calculations, reconciliations, and reporting in a timely manner.
- Ensure internal reporting complies with IFRS. Advise line management on any non-compliance and its impact on external group reporting.
- Analyse financial results to identify trends and present them to line management.
- Prepare and finalise quarterly board pack financial information.
- Undertake ad hoc reporting as required.
Financial Statement Preparations
- Prepare and finalise 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. Identify and communicate implications of non-uniform application to line management, proposing solutions for group-wide compliance.
- Ensure external reporting adheres to IFRS.
SAP Hierarchy Maintenance
- Maintain company structures, hierarchies, and chart of accounts accurately. Ensure regular and timely updates based on approved requests.
- Assign owners to all General Ledger accounts for reconciliation purposes.
Forex Management
- Maintain and update company and group currency exchange rates within reporting systems.
- Monitor and report significant currency fluctuations to management.
- Calculate and assess the reasonability of foreign currency revaluations.
Ad Hoc Group Projects
- Complete assigned projects from management, which may involve investigation, proposal development, and implementation.
Required Qualifications and Skills
- Minimum NQF 8 (Chartered Accountant – CA(SA) or equivalent).
- Completed CA article training contract.
- Proven ability to meet deadlines and a flexible approach to work.
- Capacity to work effectively under pressure.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Dynamic and proactive professional.
Leadership Competencies
Lead with Vision
- Establish clear and compelling outcomes for your area of responsibility.
- Develop appropriate action plans to achieve set outcomes.
- Ensure team members understand their contribution to departmental objectives.
- Motivate employees towards achieving established outcomes.
- Proactively identify and address issues and risks that could impede departmental delivery.
Provide Direction
- Develop operational plans to support the achievement of set objectives.
- Ensure adherence to policies and procedures within your 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 to improve departmental performance.
- Strive to exceed set goals.
- Develop challenging goals for yourself and the department, working tenaciously to meet them.
- Implement clear control mechanisms to measure results against performance objectives.
- Identify and persist in overcoming barriers to performance.
- Assist team members in achieving their goals.
- Proactively anticipate and act on trends and evolving needs.
Think Strategically
- Identify gaps or potential inconsistencies in business results, performance data, processes, or systems by recognising patterns in information.
- Prepare contingency plans for identified problems and potential situations.
- Take considered action to prevent short-term problems from escalating.
Solve Problems
- Proactively identify problems and seek their root cause.
- Objectively and thoroughly analyse information, recognising patterns to identify gaps or inconsistencies in operational results, performance data, processes, or systems.
- Develop and implement appropriate action plans, breaking complex tasks into manageable parts.
Make Decisions
- Make decisions within the framework of company policies and set timelines.
- Consider the consequences of decisions within your area of responsibility.
- Implement decisions in line with agreed processes and policies.
- Stand by your decisions with self-confidence.
Plan
- Establish priorities and operational plans to ensure optimal resource utilisation within your area of responsibility.
- Consider the impact of planning on your area, including organisational 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 aligned with business, team, and individual needs and goals.
- Delegate tasks appropriately to individuals.
Manage Performance
- Follow through on commitments to achieve set objectives and targets.
- Take accountability for your actions and those of subordinates, implementing corrective actions where necessary.
- Define clear and challenging department goals and standards aligned with strategic initiatives.
- Implement and manage control mechanisms to ensure department objectives are met.
- Utilise appropriate behavioural skills to resolve operational performance problems.
- Act as a role model, motivating others to achieve high standards of quality and efficiency.
- Determine employee strengths and weaknesses relative to job requirements and implement appropriate development plans.
Handle Pressure
- Manage pressure effectively, maintaining control over responses irrespective of time or workload pressures.
- Remain focused and rational, displaying self-confidence when dealing with 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 effectively to the changing environment and stakeholder needs and expectations.
Influence
- Persuade and influence others towards your point of view as a leader, demonstrating awareness of self, others, and context.
- Deliver appropriate written presentations and oral communication aligned with audience requirements.
- Project credibility and confidence, even when facing obstacles.
Assert Authority
- Communicate your point of view credibly and with self-confidence, ensuring adherence to policies despite work pressures.
- Assert yourself in interpersonal situations.
- Maintain and project confidence, even in adverse circumstances.
- Make a clear and concise positive personal impact on the audience.
- Facilitate open, direct, two-way communication.
- Express disagreements with peers or senior colleagues tactfully and appropriately.
Collaborate
- Recognise and effectively address conflict among team members.
- Identify and improve communication to bring conflict within the team into the open and facilitate resolution.
- Make a concerted effort to collaborate and build rapport with internal stakeholders to find solutions for situations leading to conflict and misunderstanding.
Communicate
- Assess audience needs to deliver appropriate messages and content.
- Apply communication strategies to ensure inputs from stakeholders are discussed and acted upon.
- Actively share information and ideas, encouraging others to share their views and concerns.
- Recognise and proactively address situations with potential for miscommunication that could damage relationships.
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