Junior Accountant

Junior Accountant

Salary – R 25 000.00 per month, Cost to Company

Working hours: Monday - Friday 08:00 – 17:00 and overtime when needed

Our client a reputable multi-national manufacturing company has an opportunity for a Junior Accountant to join their firm in Roodepoort, JHB area.

POSITION CLOSES: 17/02/2022

Minimum requirements:

• Matric (Grade 12)
• BCOM Accounting degree and/or Articles (Completed or in the progress)
• Syspro – would be an advantage
• Accounts Payable experience

Duties will include but is not limited to:

• • Reconciliations and Journals:
  • Maintenance of the general ledgers for various companies within the group
  • Accurate, timeous, and consistent processing of general ledger accounting entries, including salaries and wages journals
  • Processing month-end journals entries and review of the trial balances for various companies in the group
  • Updating and maintaining General Ledger reconciliations on a monthly basis including inter-company loan accounts and reconciliations of clearing accounts
  • Maintenance of accrual/ provision balances and ensuring completeness of these investigating and resolving accounting queries
  • Assist with the month end accounting close process
  • Prepare weekly wages for review
  • Prepare and review company credit cards.
  • Review of creditors recon for local creditors (+/- 200 per month)
  • Review foreign creditors recons
  • Review inter-branch accounts
  • Review and approve costings for foreign creditors
  • Follow up with suppliers and other branches to sort out queries on recons timeously
  • Assist the creditors team to solve queries
  • Load payments on the bank
  • Review and maintain supplier master data on Syspro
  • Load beneficiaries on Nedbank
  • Load foreign beneficiaries on Ned Treasury
  • Load foreign payments on Ned treasury
  • Submit weekly and monthly cash flow projection for payments
  • Review age analysis to ensure suppliers are up to date
  • Ad-Hoc duties

• Reporting:
  • Preparation of management accounts for various entities within the group

• Statutory/Legal Compliance/Audit Support and Compliance:
  • Manage and conduct month-end and year-end statutory requirements
  • Ensure compliance to accounting standards and other regulatory bodies in how transactions are accounted for
  • Support the year end and interim audit process

• Fixed assets:
  • Ensuring the fixed asset register is kept updated on a regular basis
  • Account for additions and disposals
  • Conducting a fixed asset count for various entities within the group annually

• Internal controls:
  • Ensure that strong internal controls are being maintained to help ensure the reliability of the financial statements
  • Monitoring and improvement of internal controls

• Other:
  • Conduct petty cash counts and review and sign off petty cash recons on a regular basis
  • Attending and auditing stock counts for various entities within the group
  • Monitoring, processing, and reconciling all insurance claims
  • Assisting with the review of creditors reconciliations
  • All other ad-hoc duties directed by the group financial manager

Please note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted