Your Degree in Accounting or equivalent (BCom or BCompt (Acc)), Completed articles and 3 years' experience in bookkeeping or accounting function as Accountant II OR 10 years' experience in bookkeeping/ accounting function will enable you to:
- 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 and ensuring accountants are aware of any shortcomings in this procedure
- Providing feedback to financial manager on any problems
- Assists in other areas where required
- Reviews the accounting records to assert whether they are materially valid, accurate and complete
- Providing feedback to financial manager on any problems
- Reviews the fixed asset registers
- Responsible for the review of periodic records including balance sheet 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
- Ensure the intercompany process is accurate and complete
- 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
- Providing feedback to financial manager on any problems
- Assists in other areas where required
- Prepares/ Reviews all management information prepared (management accounts, budgets and other) to ensure accuracy and proper analysis thereof
- Responsible for preparing an accurate budget, including the update of forecasts and all supporting schedules timeously
- Prepares and maintains all other management information requested by the executive management team
- Develops management information reporting templates
- Assists in other areas where required
- 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
- Reviews functions performed by the bookkeepers and accountants
- Takes ownership of the validity, accuracy and completeness of the weekly and long-term cash flow preparation in line with the required timelines
- Prepares calculations to monitor financial soundness requirements for current and future periods (liquidity, cash holdings, CAR & solvency)
- May be required to be a releaser of payments and beneficiaries on the banking platform
- Assists in other areas where required
- Prepares the VAT reconciliations and working papers prepared by the accountants
- Escalates any unresolved problems to financial manager
- Reviews the Income tax returns prepared by bookkeepers and accountants
- Review tax computations monthly and income tax return before submission to SARS
- Prepared DWT returns for submission
- Ensures that all audit queries are addressed timely and that valid tax clearance is maintained at all times
- Ensures that payment for all tax types are paid within the prescribed timeframes
- Assists in other areas where required
- Primarily responsible for providing all information to the auditors and Group management timeously
- Preparation of annual financial statements
- Is primarily responsible for the execution and day-to-day monitoring of the project
- 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 and on cluster level
- 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
- To be specified by division
- To be specified by division
- Accounting principles & practices
- Evolution
- Excel
