Our client is a leading nationwide, independent consultancy specializing in agribusiness.  Their Data Analytics Company enables clients to focus their attention to route cause, while Consultants help solve the issues.

Our client is a a dynamic partner owned and managed integrated service provider focused on complete business solutions.

They have over twenty years of experience in providing specialized business support services to clients across South Africa.  They have five business divisions, namely Accounting, Investing, Consulting, Empowerment Solutions and Academy.  With all five divisions working together to provide a holistic service, the Data Analytics Company is able to pre-empt and address their clients’ unique business needs and ensure Sustainable Intergeneration Wealth.

Duties and  Responsibilities:

Our client is looking for Consultants to capacitate their business in South Africa.  Their existing clients include private farm businesses and corporate agriculture.  Think farm business planning, benchmarking, continuous improvement, skills training and development; ultimately becoming a key member of the farmers advisory team.

The role will involve the majority of time on farms.  Your technical abilities, experience and interests will play a role in shaping the company’s business development focus.  If you have a talent for leading people, that opportunity will arise.

This is a great opportunity to work closely with industry leaders, developing your skills on your way to becoming a key partner in a growing company.

Requirements:

Our client is looking for high potential, highly motivated individuals who love agriculture.  Commercially minded Consultants who can work with clients to really understand problems, develop solutions and manage commercially successful projects.

For success in this role, you will require:

• Agri/Science related qualification
• Self motivation
• Excellent interpersonal skills with a keenness and ability to work within a diverse team-based environment
• Ability to work autonomously, while interacting with colleagues
• A high level of computer literacy 
• You will require a driver’s license and be prepared to travel

Your success is measured by the success of the clients improved whole of business performance.

Salary:

Salary package negotiable and commensurate with skills and experience

Application Method:

• Applicants who meet the above requirements are welcome to apply with CV to Jake at jake.rubin@pinionza.com
• Please make sure that you include the name of the job / position that you are applying for in the SUBJECT section of your email.

Closing Date for Applications: none

All applicants must be willing to undergo assessment of competence, security, and credit clearance checks to be considered for the position.

If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please consider your application to be unsuccessful.

We are looking for a Financial Accountant with Power BI Experience to join our team.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Preparation of Monthly Management accounts and forecasts
• Develop, maintain and improve comprehensive financial models to support scenario analysis and strategic planning
• Financial Reporting
• Auditing
• Regular engagement with relevant team members and departments to understand the underlying issues causing variances to budget with key ratios and profitability analysis
• Variance analysis and evaluations for financial activities including costing and budgeting

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• B.Comm or similar, Qualified as Accountant
• 5 + years of experience in preparing management accounts
• IT Systems proficient (Xero/ERP systems/API integrations)
• Power BI is essential
• Advanced Excel
• Financial Modelling experience
• Ability to interpret the analysis
• Ability to maintain and work with large volumes of financial data accurately and efficiently
• A good understanding of financial reporting methodology
• An understanding of accounting processes / practices and their impact on financial reporting

BEHAVIOUR AND COMPETENCIES REQUIRED

• Ability to communicate clearly and collaborate with all levels of management
• Analytical and logical
• Ambitious
• Team player
• Diligent, honest and trustworthy
• Proactive, punctual and reliable
• Understands the importance of confidentiality
• Self-motivated individual
• Excellent time management skills
• Ability to see the “big picture” to understand the impact of financial reports provided
• Stress management and the ability to manage and co-ordinate deadlines under pressure

Salary:

Remuneration: TCTC R35 000 to R45 000

Application Method:

• Applicants who meet the above requirements are welcome to apply with CV to Jake at jake.rubin@pinionza.com
• Please make sure that you include the name of the job / position that you are applying for in the SUBJECT section of your email.

Closing Date for Applications: none

All applicants must be willing to undergo assessment of competence, security, and credit clearance checks to be considered for the position.

If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please consider your application to be unsuccessful.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Management
  • Managing a team of 8 to 12 accountants and bookeepers that are providing external services to several clients that have various businesses.
  • The businesses are groups of companies that require outsourced back-office services
  • The team will need to be monitored and supported by the Senior Account Manager
  • The incumbent will be required to liase with the head-office that provides the ultimate service, and with the clients
    • Troubleshooting processing issues
    • Systems support and recommendations for system improvements
    • Coordinate the team and train team according to the HO requirements
    • Recruit team members
    • Manage team, performance and KPA’s
    • ensure data is correctly processed according to strict requirements
  • Accounting support and management of the team to provide following services
    • Monthly bookkeeping review and support to bookkeepers (see below )
    • Review and correcting monthly management accounts
    • Review and management of accounting controls and systems
    • Journal adjustments
    • Reconciling accounts
    • Reconciling inter-group loan accounts
    • Customer support
    • Monthly working papers
    • Annual financial statements
    • Cash-flows prepared and reviewed
    • Budgets prepared and reviewed to actual
    • Commentary on financial statements and management accounts
    • Review of controls and procedures
    • Accounting IT systems support
    • Prepare management accounts
  • General Admin
    • Respond to internal and external queries
    • Timesheets
    • Management of team members (bookkeepers)
    • Prepare reports

Requirements:

• Com Degree
• 5 plus years’ experience in accounting/bookkeeping/managing finance team
• Proficient in the following programs;
  • Xero or Sage or Other
  • Excel (intermediate to advanced)
  • Outlook

Salary and Hours:

• Must be present at offices
• Hours: 9am – 6:30pm (hybrid allowed after initial training period)
• CTC R60 000 to R70 000 pm

Application Method:

• Applicants who meet the above requirements are welcome to apply with CV to Jake at jake.rubin@pinionza.com
• Please make sure that you include the name of the job / position that you are applying for in the SUBJECT section of your email.

Closing Date for Applications: none

All applicants must be willing to undergo assessment of competence, security, and credit clearance checks to be considered for the position.

If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please consider your application to be unsuccessful.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Monthly bookkeeping review and support to bookkeepers (see below )
• Review and correcting monthly management accounts
• Review and management of accounting controls, procedures and systems
• Journals setup – monthly/recurring, journal adustments
• Reconciling accounts and inter-group loans
• Customer support
  • Accounting systems support
  • Client account support
  • Compliance review and ensure compliance is done
  • Technical and tax support
• Monthly and annual working papers
• Annual financial statements – Compilation and sign off
• Independent reviews
• Cash-flows and budgets prepared and reviewed and commentary submitted
• Tax planning, prov tax planning, review of group taxes and tax efficiency
• Business structures consulting, review of, planning of and implementation of. Will require very good knowledge of;
  • Taxes – business, individual, VAT, estate, payroll, trusts
  • Business structuring (entity types, best practices and case use
  • Estate planning
  • Commerical contracts and legal compliance
• General Admin
  • Management of team members (bookkeepers)
  • Timesheets, work planning, review of task status, create and maintain workflows, reporting
  • Quotes to clients and client onboarding

Requirements:

B.Com Degree, SAPIA, or similar qualification

• 5 plus years post articles experience in accounting/bookkeeping/managing finance team
• Proficient in the following programs;
  • Xero or Sage or Other
  • Draftworx/Caseware
  • Excel (advanced), outlook, word

Salary and Hours:

Must be present at offices during initial training, hybrid allowed thereafter

• Hours: 8am till 5pm , with 30 mins lunch (8.5 hour day)
• CTC R43 000 to R54 000

Application Method:

• Applicants who meet the above requirements are welcome to apply with CV to Jake at jake.rubin@pinionza.com
• Please make sure that you include the name of the job / position that you are applying for in the SUBJECT section of your email.

Closing Date for Applications: none

All applicants must be willing to undergo assessment of competence, security, and credit clearance checks to be considered for the position.

If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please consider your application to be unsuccessful.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Accounting work

• Monthly bookkeeping review and support to bookkeepers (see below )
• Review and correcting monthly management accounts
• Review and management of accounting controls, procedures and systems
• Journals setup – monthly/recurring, journal adjustments
• Reconciling accounts and inter-group loans
• Customer support
  • Accounting systems support
  • Client account support
  • Compliance review and ensure compliance is done
  • Technical and tax support
• Monthly and annual working papers
• Annual financial statements – Compilation and sign off
• Cash-flows and budgets prepared and reviewed and commentary submitted
• Tax planning, provisional tax planning, review of group taxes and tax efficiency

• Training work
  • Training of SAIPA students and SAIT students
  • Signing off of SAIPA logbook/POE and SAIT POE
  • Coaching and mentoring of students
  • Training students through small business hub
• General Admin
  • Management of team members (bookkeepers)
  • Timesheets, work planning, review of task status, create and maintain workflows, reporting
  • Quotes to clients and client onboarding

Requirements:

• Com Degree, SAPIA qualification
• 2 years post articles experience
• Proficient in the following programs;
  • Xero or Sage or Other
  • Draftworx/Caseware
  • Excel (advanced), outlook, word

Salary and hours:

• Must be present at offices
• Hours: 8am till 4:30pm , with 30 mins lunch (8 hour day)
• CTC R32 000 to R38 000
  • Includes income protection policy (pays up to 75 % of salary if disabled and cannot work) and life policy (1 x annual salary) – after probation period

Application Method:

• Applicants who meet the above requirements are welcome to apply with CV to Jake at jake.rubin@pinionza.com
• Please make sure that you include the name of the job / position that you are applying for in the SUBJECT section of your email.

Closing Date for Applications: none

All applicants must be willing to undergo assessment of competence, security, and credit clearance checks to be considered for the position.

If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please consider your application to be unsuccessful.

Our client is looking for an experienced bookkeeper to join there team

Duties and Responsibilities:

•  Bookkeeping
  • Cash book and bank recons
    • Create and code cash book
    • Reconcile bank accounts
    • Petty cash
    • Import and code bank statements
  • Creditors
    • invoices coded and allocated/captured in system
    • creditor recons to statements
    • prepare creditors for payment
  • Journals
    • Recurring journals – provisions, accruals, etc.
    • Correcting journals
  • Debtors
    • Invoicing and credit notes
    • Quotes
    • receipting
    • Debtors reconciliations
    • Debtors queries
    • Interest on late accounts
    • Reports on ageing
  • Prepare management accounts
  • Inventory
    • Stock capturing and setup
    • Stock reports
    • Inventory recons
  • Payroll
    • Prepare payslips
    • Payroll recons
    • Payroll taxes
  • General Admin
    • Respond to internal and external queries
    • Timesheets
    • Prepare reports

Requirements:

• Relevant degree or diploma (B.Com, Bookkeeping, Accounting)
• Matric certificate
• 5 plus years’ experience in bookkeeping/debtors/administration
• Proficient in the following programs;
  • Xero or Sage or Other
  • Excel (intermediate to advanced)
  • Outlook

Salary and hours:

• Must be present at offices in Mount Pleasant, Lorraine
• Hours: 9am till 6pm , with 30 mins lunch, 8am till 3:30pm every 2^nd Friday
• CTC R22 000 to R26 000

Application Method:

• Applicants who meet the above requirements are welcome to apply with CV to Jake at jake.rubin@pinionza.com
• Please make sure that you include the name of the job / position that you are applying for in the SUBJECT section of your email.

Closing Date for Applications: none

All applicants must be willing to undergo assessment of competence, security, and credit clearance checks to be considered for the position.

If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please consider your application to be unsuccessful.

Our client is looking for a Dairy Farm Manager to join their team.

 Key Responsibilities would include:

• Stockmanship of the overall dairy operations.
• Oversee and monitor milking, machine and tank washing.
• Ensure the dairy is operating to standard.
• Pasture management of successful planting season through allocating, irrigating, farm cover, residual, soil and plant health.
• Calf rearing and calving successfully rearing calves and managing a calving season.
• Staff training, feeding, hygiene, growth rates, mortality rates and health.
• Staff management, monitor and maintain staff and team. Motivate, discipline, train and ensure farm and staff performance and efficiency.
• Cow comfort, condition, feeding, health, AI season and breeding results.
• Infrastructure and machinery including setting some maintenance schedules and overseeing farm assets.
• Assists with financial, physical budgeting and monthly profitability.

 Minimum Competency Requirements

• Agricultural Diploma / Degree would be advantageous
• Minimum 5-8 years dairy experience
• Dairy Management experience essential
• Minimum of 3 years pasture management experience
• Must be experienced and able to run a +1000 cow herd
• Rotary dairy experience would be advantageous
• Ability to motivate and work with a team
• Strong record of management skills
• Previous experience with Afikem essential
• Previous experience with Delpre essential
• Hard-working, deadline-driven, diligent
• Accurate, organised and demonstrates initiative
• Be prepared to work overtime
• Operations on the farm are conducted mainly in Afrikaans and a professional business ability in Afrikaans is required.

Salary and benefits offered

Commensurate with skills and experience, the company is offering a highly competitive salary plus benefits, in line with the seniority of this position.

Application Method:

• Applicants who meet the above requirements are welcome to apply with CV to Jake at jake.rubin@pinionza.com
• Please make sure that you include the name of the job / position that you are applying for in the SUBJECT section of your email.

Closing Date for Applications: none

All applicants must be willing to undergo assessment of competence, security, and credit clearance checks to be considered for the position.

Our client, a farming group in the George area, is looking for a Maintenance / Outside Foreman to join their team with immediate effect.

Job Description: Tasks and Outputs will include, but not be limited to:

• Plans, develops, and implements policies, procedures, and practices for operation on a dairy farm to ensure compliance with company’s or owner’s standards.
• Assist and manage the daily grazing allocations and feed allocation monitoring.
• Inspects facilities and equipment to ensure compliance with operational standards, and to determine maintenance and repair requirements.
• Repairs and Maintenance, inclusive of mechanical systems such as Irrigation / Pivots / Pumps / Farm Implements, as well as basic Electrical jobs.
• Preventative maintenance, planning & executing of regular maintenance of field equipment & machinery.
• Budgeting the Repairs & Maintenance on the farms and accomplishing the maintenance within the planned budget.
• Maintain the inventory records for equipment and supplies.
• Total Workshop control of tools.
• Authorizes job relevant requisitions, or purchases supplies and equipment, for example replacements for defective equipment.
• Prepares maintenance activity reports for evaluation by management or owner.
• Manage all labour related responsibilities in line with company policies.
• Clerical and administrative job duties, like drawing up budget plans and maintaining records of day-to-day operations.
• Personnel evaluations and personnel training.
• Assist with the management of daily grazing allocations and feed allocation monitoring.

Minimum Competence, Qualification and Experiential Requirements

• Min 5 years practical experience
• Mechanical ability and experience
• Electrical understanding and experience (12 V and 220 V) would be advantageous
• Ability to work in a team environment and people management skills
• Ability to keep records and also able to work long hours with weekend duties
• Code 8 driver’s license
• Work under a senior manager / supervision and must have high Integrity
• Need to be able to communicate and do business in English and Afrikaans

Competencies not specifically required, but that could be Advantageous

• Understand irrigation with the management of pivots
• Any animal husbandry and also crop experience
• Experience in Health and Safety
• Rotary dairy experience

 Salary and benefits offered

Commensurate with skills and experience, the company is offering a highly competitive salary plus benefits, in line with the role and requirements of this position.

Application Method:

• Applicants who meet the above requirements are welcome to send your CV to jake.rubin@pinionza.com
• Please make sure that you include the name of the job / position that you are applying for in the SUBJECT section of your email.

Closing Date for Applications: none

All applicants must be willing to undergo assessment of competence, security, and credit clearance checks to be considered for the position.

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Application Method:

• Applicants who meet the above requirements are welcome to apply with CV to Jake at jake.rubin@pinionza.com
• Please make sure that you include the name of the job / position that you are applying for in the SUBJECT section of your email.

Closing Date for Applications: none

All applicants must be willing to undergo assessment of competence, security, and credit clearance checks to be considered for the position.

If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please consider your application to be unsuccessful.