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Senior Accountant

  • South Africa
  • Johannesburg
  • On-site
  • Permanent Full-Time
  • Posted: 23 Sep 2025
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Senior Accountant

About the job

This role is responsible for accurate and timely financial data processing, analysis, and reporting to support meaningful financial statements. Key duties include preparing and reviewing journal entries, working papers, annual statements, as well as assisting with audits and year-end processes to ensure high-quality financial information for leadership assurance.  Collaborate with business units to provide financial insights that support strategic decisions, cost optimization, and operational efficiency.

 

This role offers potential progression to positions such as R2R Manager or Finance Controller, supporting long-term career development within the organization.

About you

Qualification(s)

  • B Comm Accounting Graduate with 5 years financial experience
  • CA(SA) as an advantage

Experience and Skills

  • FMCG experience an advantage
  • Strong IT literacy with good MS Excel and MS Word and a solid understanding of accounting.
  • Sound SAP experience
  • Digital Finance & Automation: Leverage SAP and other digital tools to streamline accounting processes, improve data accuracy, and support automation initiatives.
  • Demonstrate good attention to detail
  • Experience with general ledger functions and the month-and / year-end closing procedures
  • Demonstrate ability to prepare and review Management and Statutory accounts
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
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About Danone

For more information about Danone, our culture, please explore careers.danone.com.

 

We offer:

A job which could easily turn in to a career in Danone. We believe everyone is born with superpowers, something which comes natural to you. We know this uniqueness is something which brings both excellence as well as energy, so we believe in all Danoner’s potential and when we build careers based on these superpowers and when we develop everyone’s potential to the fullest magic happens. This is how we like to see Talent Management in Danone.

This is a highly visible position within Danone; you will interact with Internal - Marketing, Sales Supply chain, SSD and External - Suppliers, CO-packers. Challenge, innovate, convince and find alignment when needed. This role has no direct reports.

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Job details

Dedicated to bringing health through food to as many people as possible, we are a leading global food & beverage company built on four businesses: Essential Dairy and Plant-Based Products, Waters, Early Life Nutrition and Medical Nutrition. 

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