Financial Accountant

Bring your energy to Aggreko as a Financial Accountant based in Kempton Park, South Africa. You'll play a key role in maintaining robust financial controls, ensuring accurate financial reporting, supporting audit and compliance activities, and driving continuous improvement across our Africa region finance function.

Power without pause. Heating, cooling and oil-free air without end. We keep our customers' worlds on. From world-class events that last a few weeks to mining operations and remote communities who rely on us for decades.

What you'll do as Financial Accountant:

- Prepare and review monthly and quarterly balance sheet reconciliations, including prepayments, accruals, and payroll-related accounts, ensuring reconciling items are identified and resolved promptly.
- Review trial balances across South Africa and the Africa region, investigating and resolving discrepancies to maintain the accuracy and integrity of financial records.
- Partner with BPO providers to ensure timely and accurate statutory and financial reporting requirements are met.
- Support internal and external audits through the preparation of reconciliations, schedules, and supporting documentation, while driving closure of audit, compliance, and control actions.
- Identify opportunities to strengthen financial controls, reporting processes, balance sheet governance, and Power BI reporting capabilities across the region.

You are:

- Degree qualified in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline, with a professional qualification such as CPA, ACCA, or CIMA.
- An experienced Financial Accountant with strong knowledge of month-end close processes, balance sheet reconciliations, and financial controls.
- Highly analytical, with advanced Microsoft Excel skills and experience using Power BI for reporting and data analysis.
- Comfortable working with large volumes of financial data and collaborating with BPO, audit, compliance, and operational stakeholders.
- Detail-oriented, proactive, and committed to continuous improvement and process optimisation.

Here's what you'll get:

- The opportunity to join a global leader in energy solutions and contribute to a growing Africa finance team.
- Exposure to regional financial operations and the chance to influence financial controls, reporting, and governance processes.
- Ongoing learning and development opportunities to support your professional growth and career progression.
- A collaborative, inclusive working environment where your expertise and ideas can make a real impact.
- Competitive salary and benefits package in line with local market practices.

Our people are can-do, positive, resilient and persistent. If that feels like you, apply now and build your career with the people bringing energy to the world.

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Equal employment opportunity

We welcome people from different backgrounds and cultures, and respect people’s unique skills, attitudes and experiences. We encourage everyone to be themselves at work because we know that’s how we do our best, for each other, for our customers, for the communities where we work, and for our careers.

We are an equal opportunity employer. If you apply for a role at Aggreko, we will consider your application based on your qualifications and experience, and not on your race, colour, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.