Financial Accountant

We’re looking for…

A Financial Accountant that plays a pivotal role in the financial success of the company by maintaining the company’s accounting processes, records, and financial data.

Who are you?

• You pay great attention to detail.
• You have the ability to use your own initiative.
• You can work without supervision.
• You can work independently or as part of a team.
• You have good interpersonal skills.
• You can communicate at all levels with tact and diplomacy.
• You possess a high level of work ethic and integrity.
• You have a strong customer service ethic.

What’s the role?

You will be responsible for:

• Cashbooks, bank reconciliations, and allocation of deposits.
• Invoicing students, members, and the public.
• Doing schedules of examiner and contractor payments, to be submitted on a quarterly basis, sent to the Payroll administrator once a year by the end of April.
• Keeping the suppliers list up to date.
• Managing BBBEE certification process.
• Performing VAT calculations, reconciliations, submissions, and payments on the cash basis.
• Managing contracts and relationships with external service providers.
• Assisting with trial balances and annual financial statements.
• Assisting with preparation of management accounts.
• Processing payments on Standard Bank’s business online payments.
• Processing debit order collections on Standard Bank’s business online for our members.
• Assisting with the external audit process.
• Assisting in compiling departmental budgets.
• Ledger accounts reconciliations.
• Maintaining the CSD database.
• Completing and submitting vendor forms.
• Reconciling the finance and student sub-systems.
• Communicating with all relevant stakeholders.
• Replying to all financial queries.
• Supporting the finance manager as requested.

Boxes to tick…

• CGISA qualification (with accounting subjects) or a recognized accounting degree.
• At least 5 years accounting experience.
• Computer literate – Excel, MS Word, a recognized accounting package; Sage Evolution is an advantage.
• Experience in Crypto and Forex.