Description:
Forming part of a team providing accounting, tax, and general advisory services to a client portfolio. This entails assisting a manager in the fields of accounting and regulatory requirements with a specific focus on relationships with clients to guarantee and surpass their expectations of service delivery.
The key responsibilities of the position are:
- Take overall responsibility for assigned work and be able to work independently
- Support and coach junior team members to develop themselves on a personal and technical level
- Interrogating current practices and proposing enhancements to improve efficiencies with a specific focus on technology
- Identify information required and requesting it from clients and/or relevant sources
- Take responsibility of monthly financial accounting services
- Preparing reconciliations of financial statement line items
- Compilation of financial statements
- Proposing appropriate accounting treatments in line with applicable financial reporting standards
- Provisional and income tax calculations
- Reconciliation and submission of input/output VAT
- Review of work performed by junior team members
- Ability to identify errors and propose appropriate remedies
- Adhering to deadlines in a timeous manner
In addition, the following internal tasks will also be required:
- Accurate record keeping and adhering to set budgets
- Adhering to internal strategic goals and operational activities in terms of approved policies and procedures
- Take ownership of personal develop through development plans and requesting continuous feedback on their progress in relation to these plans (performance management)
- Complying to risk management and related policies and procedures
- Ensuring that quality assurance standards/measures are met, both internally set standards and the requirements of external bodies
“If you do not hear from us within 3 days unfortunately your application has not been successful”
Requirements:
- Accounting Processing: 3 to 4 years
Requirements
The prerequisites of the position related to qualification and work experience are:
- Eligible to register as a Chartered Accountant (SA) or already registered; or
- Registered Professional Accountant (SA); and
- B.Com degree and/or equivalent accounting degree, completed SAIPA or SAICA articles; or
- Matric (with maths and accounting as a subject), completed SAIPA or SAICA articles and at least 3-years’ relevant post article experience.
Other requisites are:
- Proficient in Afrikaans and English
- MS Office
Experience in the below are preferred, but not a requirement:
- Draftworx
- Xero
- Dext or Hubdoc
- Skytax (Accfin)
- SARS e-filing
Skills
The ideal candidate should have the following skills:
- Self-motivated
- Analytical skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Great communication skills
- Organisational skills
- Time management skills
- Problem solving skills
- Report writing skills
- Training presentation skills
- Planning skills
- Management and leadership skills