Financial accountant

POSITION INFO :

A Leading Financial Tech company based in Woodmead / Sunninghill is looking for the skills of a Financial Accountant to join their team - it's a young accounting department.

The successful incumbent must have a minimum of 2 - 5 years of accounting experience:

Qualification :

• Accounting qualification BCOM degree or studying towards a similar accounting field

Duties:

• Preparing, capturing, and reconciliation of all data related to the cashbook and reconciling the bank accounts.
• Loading payments on the banking system.
• Submission of CIPC returns and director amendments on CIPC.
• Full creditors’ function (Capturing of supplier invoices, calculation of trade discounts and interest on overdue accounts, performing supplier reconciliations, monitoring supplier age analysis to ensure supplier payments are up to date and reconciling to the supplier control account).
• Full debtors’ function (Generating customer invoices, calculation of discounts, capturing customer payments, sending statement of accounts, monitoring customer age analysis to ensure that customer payments are made timeously and ensuring it reconciles to the customer control account).
• Ensuring that customer and supplier invoices are valid tax invoices.
• Resolving client and supplier queries.
• Processing of all journals/adjustments to the General Ledger, Creditors, and Debtors’ accounts such as depreciation journals, intercompany loans, etc.
• Reconciliation of intercompany loan accounts.
• Calculation of interest accrued on intercompany loans.
• Preparing and updating the fixed asset register monthly, calculation and processing of depreciation, asset disposal, and accounting for new assets.
• Compilation of monthly management accounts and month-end reports.
• Compilation of management accounts and annual financial statements for two trust companies and one investment club within the group.
• Drafting Annual Financial Statements, disclosures, and notes.
• Conversion of financial statements and management accounts to foreign currencies.
• Submission of VAT, PAYE, and Income Tax on SARS E-filing.
• Compilation of VAT, PAYE, and Income Tax reports and reconciliations.
• Assisting with the company’s tax compliance such as obtaining Tax clearance certificates and ensuring interest and penalties are correctly calculated and paid.
• Compilation of SARS VAT audit documentation and resolving disputes with SARS.
• Assisting with BBBEE compliance.
• Working with various contractual agreements such as SOW (Statement of Work) agreements and ensuring we invoice clients accordingly.
• Compilation of business plans.
• Assisting in the implementation of Sage Intacct software to the business by processing opening balance journals for the General Ledger, Creditors, and Debtors.
• Conducting accounting training for new employees.
• Ad-hoc duties and compilation of ad-hoc reports by the financial manager and/or directors.

Attributes:

• Precise.
• Team Player and committed.
• Deadline driven.
• Prepared to work overtime.
• Must be reliable, trustworthy, and honest.