Accountant Jobs in South Africa

Description

Our client in the Insurance industry with offices based in Bryanston is searching for a qualified Accountant join their finance team. Remote working from home for 4 days a week and one day normally on a Thursday at the office.

Critical requirements:

1. Completed SAICA/SAIPA articles
2. Two-to-three years’ post-article experience
3. Accounting firm background with experience in all the above key performance indicators as well as audit experience
4. Pastel Partner and Pastel Payroll experience
5. Microsoft Office
6. Bookkeeping up to trial balance
7. Experience in all SARS statutory requirements, calculations, and submissions
8. Afrikaans and English speaking (Fully-Bilingual)
9. Female candidate

Personality:

1. Ability to carry out tasks as instructed
2. Thorough and meticulous
3. Accuracy and attention to detail
4. Able to take on a challenge
5. Able to manage own time
6. Able to work in a group as well as alone with limited supervision
7. Not afraid to ask for assistance with difficult tasks
8. Analytical
9. Planning and organising skills
10. Thinking out of the box
11. Comfortable with working in a predominantly female environment
12. Willing to learn

Key performance areas:

Debtors

1. Daily and monthly customer invoicing
2. Monthly Customer Calculations
3. Sending out customer invoices and statements on a monthly basis and maintaining the customer control list
4. Debt collection
5. Customer account reconciliations

Creditors

1. Supplier capturing, processing, reconciliation, and payment

Bank and petty cash

1. Bank processing and reconciling on a daily basis and closing off at month-end
2. Assistance with petty cash requirements, reimbursement and reconciliations

Adhoc

1. Management & Employee Buying requests
2. Electronic Filing
3. Assistance with finance requests for telephone lines, marketing invoicing, and all other finance related tasks
4. Maintenance of the fixed asset register and insurance schedules
5. Assistance with implementation of processes and procedures
6. Airtime Allocations
7. Adhoc Finance related requests from

Annual

1. Assistance in audit file preparation

Management reporting

1. General Ledger maintenance
2. Assistance with monthly management accounts
3. Assistance with balance sheet reconciliations
4. Loan Accounts

Payroll

1. Assistance with payroll processing and administration

Statutory

1. Assistance with monthly, bi-annual, and annual statutory returns (VAT, EMP, Provisional Tax, Income Tax, Dividends Tax, Employment Equity, IRP5 reconciliations, Workman’s Compensation)