Sobre esta vaga de Management Accountant na Bash.com
WE ARE BASH
Bash is South Africa's largest omnichannel shopping platform. We connect over 500 brands across the physical and digital world, for millions of South Africans, every day. We're building something with real scale and real consequence.
We're founder led, a team of true owners and humble learners. We work hard, hold a high bar, and show up for each other. The problems aren't easy and the pace is real but when you break through, the impact is felt across the business and by the customers who rely on us.
If that sounds like the kind of place where you'd do the best work of your career, we'd like to meet you.
The Management Accountant will play a key role in supporting the Financial Manager at Bash by overseeing and enhancing various aspects of the company’s financial operations. This includes essential accounting responsibilities such as preparing financial reports, conducting reconciliations, and ensuring compliance with tax regulations.
Beyond core accounting, the role extends to financial management support, encompassing budgeting, forecasting, cost analysis, and cash flow management to drive informed decision-making. You will also actively contribute to process optimization, assist in system implementations, and perform project finance analysis to support the organization’s strategic goals.
This dynamic position offers an opportunity to impact both operational efficiency and long-term financial planning.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Management Reporting: Prepare and analyse monthly management reports, year-end reports, and conduct financial analyses.
- Interim and year end audits: Prepare audit files and assist with audit queries.
- Month end reviews: Review trial balance and monthly postings in the general ledger, prepare journal entries, ensuring accuracy and compliance with accounting standards.
- Reconciliations: Ensure timely and accurate reconciliations of intercompany transactions, prepayments, accruals, payroll, bank, receivables, and payables.
- Budgeting and Forecasting: Develop, consolidate and maintain accurate budgets and forecasts.
- Process Improvement: Contribute to system implementations, internal control improvements and opportunities for automation within the business.
- Business Support: Provide financial insights and support to various business units within Bash.
WHO YOU ARE:
This job is for you if you have:
- BCom Degree or Honours degree in Financial/ Management Accounting or equivalent
- 2+ experience in medium to large corporate
- Solid experience in reporting and compliance
- Expertise in managing budgets, forecasts and operational performance metrics
- Advanced proficiency in financial systems (e.g. SAP, Coupa)
- Strong command of Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, including data analysis
One or more of the following will help you stand out:
- Thorough knowledge of financial accounting procedures and principles
- Self-starter and open to learning
- Ability to work under pressure
- Agile
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Detail-orientated
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent planning skills
- Executes with precision
- Proactive in approach and thinking
- Good team player willing with work across divisional boundaries
We ask a few optional demographic questions to monitor fairness in hiring and comply with South Africa’s Employment Equity requirements. Your responses are confidential - stored separately from your application and never shown to hiring panels. We review the data only in aggregate to strengthen our sourcing so pipelines are diverse and all candidates receive equitable support. You can skip any question.
JOINING THE BASH TEAM
We believe in autonomy and self-driven individuals who thrive within some uncertainty so that they can fill those gaps with their uniqueness. The qualities that allow you to thrive are curiosity, proactivity and a bias to action. If you are these things, joining the Bash team will catapult your career and ensure you do the best work, pushing past your preconceived boundaries.
We don't believe in padding this section with things that sound good on paper. Here's what working at Bash actually looks like:
BASH PERKS
The people around you. We hire to a high standard, and you'll feel it. The talent at Bash will push your thinking, raise your game, and genuinely surprise you.
Real growth. A place that expands what you're capable of. You'll own more, stretch further, and build in ways a traditional corporate can't offer.
Top-of-market pay. The best people, in the right roles, earning at the top tier.
Time that's yours. We are flexible and don't measure time. We look at output.
Shopping perks. An exclusive discount across 500+ brands in-store and on bash.com.
