Job title: ACCOUNTANT
Company: HR Option
Job description: Job Summary
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Your Degree in Accounting or equivalent (BCom or BCompt (Acc)), as well as
- Accountant I – Completed articles or 5 years’ experience in bookkeeping/ accounting function
- Accountant II – Completed articles and 3 years’ experience in bookkeeping or accounting function OR 8 years’ experience in bookkeeping/ accounting function
will enable you to:
Processes:
- Responsible for reviewing of primary source documents
- Responsible for ensuring adherence to the Group’s policies, procedures, budget limits and Levels of Authority regarding goods and services procured
- Responsible for completing “checks” on completeness of supporting documentation maintained
- Assists in other areas where required
General accounting and reconciliations:
- Prepares reconciliation schedules for more complex account balances and reviews schedules prepared by bookkeeper and to ensure that the balance sheet is appropriately reconciled
- Primarily responsible for the validity, accuracy and completeness of transactions processed in the accounting records in a consistent manner
- Responsible for the accuracy and completeness of intercompany and related party transactions and balances confirmed on intercompany transaction schedules and confirmations
- Responsible for preparing calculations where required of amounts recognised in the accounting records
- Reviews Payroll information with supporting documentation
- Reviews instruction received from Group in relation to specific entity and ensures instruction is relevant, accurate and understood before actioning
- Reviews the age analysis for customer to ensure validity, accuracy and completeness and follows up variances timeously
- Provide journals to be processed
- Ensure balance sheet reconciliations are up to date
- Ensure the monthly income verification files are done
- Assists in other areas where required
Management information:
- Responsible for preparing accurate management accounts, including the update of forecasts and all supporting schedules timeously
- Responsible for preparing an accurate budget, including the update of forecasts and all supporting schedules timeously
- Forecast provided for cashflow
- Prepares and maintains all other management information requested by the executive management team
- Assist with audit preparation and query resolutions
- Assists in other areas where required
Sales function:
- Prepares and maintains calculations for revenue generated (including supporting documentation)
- Performs checks on inputs used for system generated revenue calculations to approved sources (agreements etc)
- Performs checks on inputs used for system generated revenue calculations to approved sources (agreements etc)
- Providing feedback to financial manager on any problems
- Updates and maintains summaries of Assets Under including movements
- Assists in other areas where required
Book buys:
- Calculating the final values of book valuations before payment
Treasury and financial soundness:
- Takes ownership of the validity, accuracy and completeness of the weekly and long-term cash flow preparation in line with the required timelines
- May be required to be a releaser of payments and beneficiaries on the banking platform
Audit and year-end:
- Primarily responsible for providing all information to the auditors and Group management timeously
Special projects:
- Is primarily responsible for the execution and day-to-day monitoring of the project
People:
- Assist subordinates with their duties
- Assist National Executive with ad hoc reporting and request
Strategic and other areas:
- Participates in meetings
- More detailed to complex communications required
- Decision making requires thorough analysis of best practice and research
- Subject matter knowledge is more detailed
- Collaborates and provides feedback for consideration of policies and strategy
- Limited negotiation with peers and subordinates
- Presents/trains peers and subordinates
- Assists in other areas where required
HR Option
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Expected salary: R40000 per month
Location: Bellville, Cape Town
Job date: Sat, 09 Mar 2024 23:42:03 GMT
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