Position: Financial Controller
Report to: Accountant
Division: Finance
Location: Midrand
Penguin Random House is looking for a hard-working, motivated individual with an eye for detail to join our finance team.
We are a dynamic, industry-leading book publisher looking for creative, communicative, hard-working talent to join our team. We offer market-related cost to company packages and a flexible, progressive environment that aims to support those who are prepared for a challenge.
Main responsibilities
- Distribution Centre fees checked and journaled.
- Implementing Stock/Export adjustments on TMS/Pastel.
- Preparing Creditors forecasting.
- Reconciliation of credit card statements, journals, and expenses.
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Month-end reconciliations.
- Staff purchases
- Courier Guy Journal
- Booksite Afrika Distribution Centre fees
- Fixed Asset disposals
- Group changes – Sales & COS adjustments
- Checking Courier Costs monthly.
- Compile reports pertaining to Damaged stock/Sales per Country/Freelancer Report.
- Requesting documentation for VAT purposes/audits.
- Monthly processing on Pastel with respect to internal freelancers.
- Prepaid reconciliation and Booksite Afrika recon.
- Facilitate Marketing budget.
Qualifications & Experience
It is essential that the candidate has:
- An Accounting tertiary qualification.
- Minimum of 3 years’ relevant experience.
- Advanced Excel knowledge/skills.
- Understanding the trail balance, income statement and balance sheet.
- Excellent administrative and analytical skills.
- Be able to adapt to change.
- Must be able to work well under pressure.
Skills & Knowledge required
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in both Afrikaans and English.
- Ability to work on fully digitized platform.
- Pastel Evolution.
- Advance working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages.
- Able to identify as a Self-starter and highly disciplined.
- Detail-oriented.
If you meet the above criteria and have what it takes to become the newest member of our team,
please send your CV and a covering letter, clearly stating your salary expectations, to
please send your CV and a covering letter, clearly stating your salary expectations, to
Jason Daniels – applications@penguinrandomhouse.co.za
Closing date: 19 September 2025
NB: Only short-listed candidates will be interviewed, and previously disadvantaged candidates will be given preference in line with the company’s equity target.
If you have not heard from us within six weeks, you should regard your application as unsuccessful.
Penguin Random House is under no obligation to fill this position.
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