Financial Analyst

Step into a Financial Analyst role in Benoni and make your mark across Gauteng. The team is hiring now and wants to hear from sharp, committed candidates.

What This Role Involves

The Financial Analyst position is part of an ongoing recruitment drive across Gauteng. The brief has been shaped carefully, with a focus on delivery in Benoni and across the finance jobs space.

Notably, the role suits a candidate who values consistency and clear communication. The Benoni operation runs on accurate work, steady relationships and a genuine respect for the people in the team.

Reasonable working hours and respectful planning are part of how the role runs. The team values strong delivery, and load is balanced fairly across the finance jobs group in Benoni.

Working in Benoni

Working in Benoni means a place well-connected by Gautrain and major arterials, with a steady flow of activity and a strong local economy. The team has built solid relationships across the Gauteng region, and the Benoni office benefits from those long-standing connections.

If you are relocating, the team can share practical pointers on neighbourhoods, transport and the typical pace of life in Benoni, Gauteng.

Accessibility is taken seriously: where the role allows, the team works toward a balance of in-office presence and flexibility for candidates based in and around Benoni.

Why This Role

Few roles let you see the impact of your work as quickly as this one. Every shift, project and decision in Benoni contributes to real outcomes for clients and colleagues across the finance jobs space in Gauteng.

In addition, the company reinvests in its people: paid training, internal moves and the chance to take on bigger projects are all part of how careers in Benoni keep progressing.

Recognition matters here. Strong performers are noticed quickly, and many promotions across the business have started in the Benoni teams.

A Typical Day

Most days begin by working through your inbox, prioritising urgent supplier or audit queries before settling into the books. You move between reconciliations, journal entries and review meetings, breaking out spreadsheets when something doesn’t tie up. Mid-morning calls with operations or sales help you understand the numbers behind the numbers, and the afternoon is usually given to deeper work: management reports, tax submissions or supporting a junior with a tricky reconciliation. By the time you log off, you have nudged the business closer to a clean month-end.

No two days look exactly the same — and that variety is part of what keeps the role engaging for the right candidate in Benoni.

In addition, the rhythm rewards people who plan ahead but also pivot quickly when Gauteng operations throw up the unexpected.

Key Outputs

• Liaise with external auditors, banks and regulatory bodies
• Capture supplier invoices, journals and bank transactions accurately
• Prepare monthly management accounts and supporting schedules
• Assist with VAT, PAYE and provisional tax submissions to SARS
• Monitor debtors’ age analysis and follow up on overdue accounts
• Maintain accurate general ledger entries and trial balance integrity

Candidate Profile

• 2-4 years’ experience in a similar finance role
• Excellent attention to detail and analytical thinking
• B.Com or National Diploma in Accounting, Finance or related field
• Sound ethical conduct and discretion when handling sensitive data
• Ability to meet tight reporting deadlines under pressure
• Awareness of B-BBEE financial reporting requirements
• Strong understanding of VAT, PAYE and SARS e-filing

In addition, if most of these boxes are ticked, you are encouraged to put your name forward.