Accountant

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JOB OVERVIEW

• Date Posted: Posted 26 seconds ago
• Location: Cape Town, Western Cape
• Job Title: Accountant
• Education Level: Bachelors Degree
• Job Level: Intermediate
• Minimum Experience: 3 - 5 Years

ACCOUNTANT POSITION AVAILABLE IN CAPE TOWN SOUTH.

Have you completed your Articles and have a few years additional work experience with knowledge of IFRS?
Our global client in the Southern Suburbs is looking for a focused, driven individual to be part of the group finance team. You will get to use and grow your finance knowledge within the team.
This promises to be an exciting role with lots of exposure and learning opportunities in risk control, forecasting, budgeting and internal controls.

REQUIREMENTS:

• BCom degree and Articles – advantageous
• Strong knowledge of IFRS
• A minimum of 3 – 5 years bookkeeping and accounting experience
• Sage experience advantageous
• Caseware experience advantageous.
• Exposure to working with foreign currencies advantageous

• Full Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable: Invoice/Receipt entry onto sage, payment of Invoices, raising and issuing Invoices, issuing of AR statements to regional offices, new account and new cost codes set up in Sage X3, raising Purchase Order and Delivery Notes, recharges to regional offices, credit notes, statement recons
• Petty cash: Weekly/monthly reconciliation, posting journal entries to Sage
• Rebates and listing fees: Assist in facilitation of the monthly calculations, reporting and accounting for rebates and listing fees making use of internal sales systems and liaising with marketing and finance teams where needed.
• Foreign currency: restating foreign balances at month end spot rates
• Prepare and submit monthly VAT return
• Maintenance of fixed asset register
• Maintenance of lease register
• Reconciliation of bank accounts and cash book, credit card receipts and statement reconciliation, processing and payment of staff expenses, VAT receipt submission, posting payments and expenses to Sage, account balances are to be reconciled in Sage
• Prepare monthly reconciliations of all balance sheet accounts including intercompany reconciliations and confirmations with counterparties
• Prepare monthly set of management accounts (vs budget) with commentary for relevant head office entities for which you are responsible.
• Support the preparation of the annual budgets for the head office entities for which you are responsible.
• Monitor monthly expenditure to ensure it remains within budget
• Monitor balances across bank accounts
• Monitor appropriate internal controls
• Prepare payment listing for approval, load and release payments, verify new banking details, maintain banking records and signatory updates etc
• Provide all necessary information for cashflow forecasting
• Provide necessary schedules and information to tax consultants
• Provide input and schedules required by external auditors
• Monitoring, follow up and resolution of audit issues
• Assist with drafting full IFRS sets of AFS using CaseWare
• Assist the Group CFO/Group FP&A Manager/Group FM with detailed analytical work and special investigations when or as needed
• Assist in completion of any government statistical surveys as required
• Other ad hoc tasks and duties when or as the need arises