Accountant
Location: Cape Town SA
Contract: Permanent, Full-Time
Salary: Competitive depending on experience
Working hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week in office
Application: Please ensure that you apply with a CV.
Protect Group specialises in enhancing customer experience and generating additional revenue for businesses through their innovative technology solutions.
Founded in 2016, the company has rapidly grown to serve over 400 business partners across 75+ countries with a presence in 12 global offices.
Protect Group offers a dynamic, AI-driven widget that integrates easily into online booking and sales platforms, providing customer-experience solutions and additional revenue services. This helps businesses boost customer satisfaction and ancillary revenue without significant upfront costs.
'Protect People' are individuals bursting with talent, ambition, drive and loyalty. You will care passionately about what you do and will be able to play a part in the continued growth of a business that is disrupting global industries and major brands across the transportation, travel, hospitality, events and financial services sectors.
Main role responsibilities:
- Keeping books for some foreign entities in Xero.
- Accounts Receivable: monthly invoicing and assist with credit control as and when required.
- Accounting for GST/VAT and drafting returns.
- Collating payroll information and liaising with accountant and employees, finalising payroll schedule for the entity and preparing bank file where needed.
- Accounts Payable: Processing purchase invoices, preparing payment run and setting up bank payments.
- Maintaining financial excel spreadsheets.
- Preparation of month end accounts, which involves entity and group related month end adjustments and reconciliations of balance sheet accounts and currency conversions.
- Assisting the team in variety of tasks across the group both as regular tasks and ad hoc requests; this could be processing transactions of another entity, preparing intercompany charges, assisting with some HR matters, participating in various team projects.
- Taking ownership of some office administrative tasks.
- Expense monitoring and expense accounting.
- Preparing bank payments.
- Assisting in preparing monthly and annual accounts.
Candidate skills and requirements: - SAIPA qualified.
- Dealing with international groups operating with multiple currencies is a must.
- Articles completed.
- Fluency in professional standard English.
- Must have experience working as an accountant of minimum 5 years.
- You will be part or fully qualified accountant.
- You will have experience working within accounts (management and year end), payroll and finance role.
- You will have excellent attention to detail and communication skills.
- You will have strong IT skills, with working Excel knowledge; experience with a cloud accounting system will be an advantage.
- You will be organised, confident and have a high degree of personal integrity.
- You will be self-motivated with a "can do" attitude and good time management skills, comfortable dealing with incomplete information and meeting tight deadlines.
- You will be experienced with working in a team as well as using your own initiative.
- You will be confident, outgoing and happy to interact with individuals, businesses and authorities, inside and outside the organisation.
Language Requirements: • Fluent English is essential.
How to Apply: If you live and breathe what you do and recognise yourself as a Protect Person, then submit your latest CV and let us know what you can bring to Protect! #J-18808-Ljbffr
