Accountant

Recruiter:

Hutech Head Office

Job Ref:

PTA009274/LvdM

Date posted:

Friday, August 26, 2022

Location:

Capetown, South Africa

Salary:

R 50k â R 70 k Per Month

JOB SUMMARY:
We have a position available for an Accountant in the property management industry, situated at Century City, Cape Town.

The successful candidate will report to the Directors and Group Finance. The Accountant will be responsible for the day-to-day accounting and financial management functions of the company. These functions will include preparing and maintaining accurate, up-to-date financial reports, ensuring compliance with accounting and tax principles and laws, monitoring expenditure and preparing for and communicating with the auditors.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Position: Accountant
Industry: Insurance Industry
Sector: Property Management
Location: Century City, Cape Town
Salary: R 50k – R 70 k Per Month

Specific Responsibilities:

Oversee management of Finance staff and accounting managers to attend to all operational accounting:
Attending to monthly invoices to clients for 300 communities / companies.
Ensuring that intragroup transactions are captured accurately and timeously and confirmed back to group accounts.
Ensuring that supplier invoices have been captured within the correct period and VAT treatment, allocated to correct expense and stock accounts.
Reconciling supplier statements to the company’s financial records and following up on any discrepancies with suppliers.
Loading payments to suppliers for services and goods received within the payment terms set by suppliers.
Attend to the full credit control function, including sending out statements and contacting clients for payment.
Maintain accurate and up to date Trust Accounting records.
Liaison with Portfolio Managers on pertinent portfolio accounting matters and recons.
Correctly allocate receipts to invoices paid by customers, ensuring that ageing is accurate and consistent with the customer’s view of the account.
Understand and integrate various accounting and record management operating sytems to produce accounts in SAGE / Evolution.
Reporting, including but not limited to:
Submission of the Monthly Management Reports (income Statement and Balance Sheet), reporting on actual versus budget.
Timeous submission of the trial Balance to the group finance function.
Produce daily Age Analysis on production.
Oversee and report on cashflow.
Weekly processing of all e-wallet cards, confirming valid documentation is provided and allocated correctly.
Reconciliation of the periodic VAT liability, submission of VAT returns, follow-up on SARS queries and ensuring that the SARS statement of account balances to the company’s records.
Where applicable follow-up to collect net input VAT claims from SARS.
Collection of loan accounts.
Budgeting and projections.
Prepare for the audit and liaise with auditors on all matters pertaining to company audits.
Oversee, manage staff members, which will include training and development.
Review own work for accuracy.
Respond to queries from management and group finance in an accurate and prompt manner.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty in a diligent and accurate manner. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required:
BCom degree with at least 5 years accounting/finance experience of similar responsibility and have a sound knowledge of accounting fundamentals.
Must be proficient in accounting software (Sage Accounting and Pastel Evolution), including stock modules.
Must be computer literate (MS Office, Excel, Outlook and Word).
Must have the ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
Must be organized, analytical, accurate and have good attention to detail.
Must have excellent communication skills (verbal and written).
Must have problem solving skills and able to deal with conflict.
Must have a helpful and positive attitude with a service orientated mindset.
Prepared to work from the office (currently based Century City).

To apply please send your CV to:

Closing date: Monday, 12th of September 2022

Should you not hear from us within 14 days after the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful.

Contact:
Nick Els
Technical Recruitment
E-mail:
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