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ACCOUNTANT - Pretoria

Your Degree in Accounting or equivalent (BCom or BCompt (Acc)) as well as 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.
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