Accountant

SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:

Our client is searching for an Accountant to join their team in Bryanston.

Key performance areas:

Debtors

• Daily and monthly customer invoicing
• Monthly Customer Calculations
• Sending out customer invoices and statements every month, and maintaining the customer control list
• Debt collection
• Customer account reconciliations

Creditors

• Supplier capturing, processing, reconciliation and payment

Bank

• Bank processing and reconciling daily, and closing off at month-end
• Assistance with out-of-pocket expenses, reimbursements and reconciliations

Adhoc

• Management & Employee Buy-in Requests
• Electronic Filing
• Assistance with finance requests for telephone lines, marketing invoicing, and all other finance-related tasks
• Maintenance of the fixed asset register and insurance schedules
• Assistance with the implementation of processes and procedures
• Airtime Allocations
• Ad hoc Finance-related requests from
• Preparing Quotes

Annual

• Assistance in audit file preparation

Management reporting

• General Ledger maintenance
• Assistance with monthly management accounts
• Assistance with balance sheet reconciliations
• Loan Accounts

Payroll

• Assistance with payroll processing and administration

Statutory

• Assistance with monthly, bi-annual statutory returns (VAT, EMP, Provisional Tax, Income Tax, Dividends Tax, Employment Equity, IRP5 reconciliations, Workman’s Compensation)

Critical Competencies:

• Completed SAICA/SAIPA articles
• Two to three years’ post-article experience
• Accounting firm background with experience in all the above key performance indicators, as well as audit experience
• Pastel Partner and Pastel Payroll experience
• Microsoft Office
• Bookkeeping up to the trial balance
• Experience in all SARS statutory requirements, calculations and submissions
• English and Afrikaans(if possible) speaking

Personality:

• Ability to carry out tasks as instructed
• Thorough and meticulous
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Able to take on a challenge
• Able to manage own time
• Able to work in a group as well as alone with limited supervision
• Not afraid to ask for assistance with difficult tasks
• Analytical
• Planning and organising skills
• Thinking out of the box
• Comfortable with working in a predominantly female environment
• Willing to learn

Own transport required: You must have your own car