Senior Accountant

SUMMARY:
We are seeking a Senior Accountant for our client in Port Elizabeth.

POSITION INFO:
Duties:

• Accounting work
• Monthly bookkeeping review and support to bookkeepers (see below )
• Review and correcting monthly management accounts
• Review and management of accounting controls, procedures and systems
• Journals setup – monthly/recurring, journal adustments
• Reconciling accounts and inter-group loans
• Customer support
• Accounting systems support
• Client account support
• Compliance review and ensure compliance is done
• Technical and tax support
• Monthly and annual working papers
• Annual financial statements - Compilation and sign off
• Independent reviews
• Cash-flows and budgets prepared and reviewed and commentary submitted
• Tax planning, prov tax planning, review of group taxes and tax efficiency
• Business structures consulting, review of, planning of and implementation of. Will require very good knowledge of;
• Taxes – business, individual, VAT, estate, payroll, trusts
• Business structuring (entity types, best practices and case use
• Estate planning
• Commercial contracts and legal compliance
• General Admin
  • Management of team members (bookkeepers)
  • Timesheets, work planning, review of task status, create and maintain workflows, reporting
  • Quotes to clients and client onboarding

• BCom Degree, SAPIA, or similar qualification
• 5 plus years post articles experience in accounting/bookkeeping/managing finance team
• Proficient in the following programs;
• • Xero or Sage or Other
  • Draftworx/Caseware
  • Excel (advanced), outlook, word