Your Degree in Accounting or equivalent (BCom or BCompt (Acc)), as well as
- Accountant I Completed articles or 5 years experience in bookkeeping/ accounting function
will enable you to:
Procurement and suppliers:
- Responsible for reviewing of primary source documents
- Responsible for ensuring adherence to the Group's policies, procedures, budget limits and Levels of Authority regarding goods and services procured
- Responsible for completing "checks" on completeness of supporting documentation maintained
- Responsible for ensuring that supplier payment terms are monitored and enforced
- Assists in other areas where required
General accounting records and reconciliations:
- Reviews cash books and bank reconciliations
- Reviews supplier reconciliations
- Reviews the fixed asset registers
- Processes non-routine/complex journal entries (including those requested by Group) and reviews journal entries posted by bookkeeper
- Prepares balance sheet reconciliation schedules for account balances and reviews schedules prepared by bookkeeper and to ensure that the balance sheet is appropriately reconciled
- Primarily responsible for the validity, accuracy and completeness of transactions processed in the accounting records in a consistent manner
- Responsible for the accuracy and completeness of intercompany and related party transactions and balances confirmed on intercompany transaction schedules and confirmations
- Responsible for preparing calculations where required of amounts recognised in the accounting records
- Prepares/reviews Payroll information with supporting documentation
- Reviews instruction received from Group in relation to specific entity and ensures instruction is relevant, accurate and understood before actioning
- Prepares/Reviews the age analysis for customer and suppliers to ensure validity, accuracy and completeness and follows up variances timeously
- Assists in other areas where required
Management information:
- Responsible for preparing accurate management accounts, including the update of forecasts, monthly cash flow and all supporting schedules timeously
- Responsible for preparing an accurate budget, including the update of forecasts and all supporting schedules timeously
- Prepares and maintains all other management information requested by the executive management team
- Develops management information reporting templates
- Assists in other areas where required
Sales function:
- Prepares and maintains calculations for revenue generated (including supporting documentation)
- Performs checks on inputs used for system generated revenue calculations to approved sources (agreements etc)
- Performs checks on inputs used for system generated revenue calculations to approved sources (agreements etc)
- Responsible for the collection of outstanding amounts due from customers
- Updates and maintains summaries of Assets Under including movements
- Assists in other areas where required
Treasury and financial soundness:
- Reviews functions performed by the bookkeeper
- Takes ownership of the validity, accuracy and completeness of the weekly and long-term cash flow preparation in line with the required timelines
- Prepares calculations to monitor financial soundness requirements for current and future periods (liquidity, cash holdings, CAR & solvency)
- May be required to be a releaser of payments and beneficiaries on the banking platform
- Assists in other areas where required
Taxation:
- Prepares the VAT reconciliation and working papers including reasonability of VAT declared
- Maintains reconciliation of balances owing to(by) SARS for all balances due
- Prepares the tax computation for monthly reporting and the annual financial statements
- Prepared DWT returns for submission
- Ensures that all audit queries are addressed timely and that valid tax clearance is maintained at all times
- Ensures that payment for all tax types are paid within the prescribed timeframes
- Assists in other areas where required
Audit and year-end:
- Primarily responsible for providing all information to the auditors and Group management timeously
- Preparation of annual financial statements
Budgets:
- Preparation of yearly budgets for allocated entities
- Assist in the preparation of support area budgets
Special projects:
- Is primarily responsible for the execution and day-to-day monitoring of the project
Strategic and other areas:
- Participates in meetings
- More detailed to complex communications required
- Decision making requires thorough analysis of best practice and research
- Subject matter knowledge is more detailed
- Collaborates and provides feedback for consideration of policies and strategy
- Limited negotiation with peers and subordinates
- Presents/trains peers and subordinates
- Assists in other areas where required
Other Company specific:
- Will assist with accounting work through out the group when the need arises.
