The Accountant will be responsible to process financial accounting entries and review and reconcile transactions for units serviced within the SSC, in line with the policies and procedures of the SSC.
Education and Experience:
- B.Com Accounting (essential)
- Minimum 3 years experience in financial accounting and reporting
- Analytical skills
- Attention to detail
- Working with information (agreements, laws, regulations, statistics)
- Influencing & Advising skills
- Research & development
- Reviewing / evaluating information and data
- Dealing with customers (including conflict handling skills)
- Problem Solving
- Clerical Administrative functions
- Plan, prioritise, co-ordinate
- Decision-making
- Emotional resilience
- Written and verbal communication skills
- Proficiency in MS Office (Advanced Excel)
- Accounting principles
- Reconciliations
- Month-end accounting requirements
- Management accounts
- Numeracy skills
- IFS Financial module an advantage
- Process improvement
- Tax calculations
- VAT calculations and submissions
- Preparation of AFS
- Approve processing of vouchers completed by the accounts clerks.
- Review accruals / provisions at month end to ensure accuracy and completeness,
- Process month-end revaluations of foreign currency balances,
- Calculate and post required provisions,
- Prepare monthly management accounts whereby all allocations are processed and balance sheet items reconciled,
- Prepare income and deferred tax calculations for the period,
- Prepare VAT returns monthly
- Upload financial information into Cognos and clear all validation errors,
- Control opening and closing dates of periods according to timetable,
- Identify outstanding items on the workflow system and follow up and / or ensure items are cleared by the Accounts clerks.
- Prepare annual financial statements and submit to Financial Accountant: Reporting for review.
- Ensure strict adherence to all policies and procedures
- Meet the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for this function (eg: clean TBs, management accounts accurate, deadlines met, vouchers posted, queries resolved etc).
- Ensure all the necessary accounting transactions have been posted for a period to ensure that the trial balance is complete, accurate and valid for reporting purposes.
- Perform reconciliations on balance sheet accounts by the required deadline,
- Reconcile payroll postings and ensure accounts are allocated correctly,
- Ensure that control account reconciliations are completed and outstanding items are identified and cleared within 30 days
- Review departmental allocations and adjust as necessary
- Meet the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for this role (eg: daily reconciliations, no variances outstanding, queries resolved etc).
- Keep management updated with regards progress on payments and where necessary escalate unresolved issues
- Respond to and resolve queries with internal and external clients
- Develop and maintain sound working relationships with relevant departments
- Interact with clients and provide professional service standards and solutions
- Maintains employee confidence and protects confidential information
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
- Preference will be given to employees from the designated groups in line with the provisions of the Employment Equity Act, No. 55 of 1998, SISA internal recruitment policy as well as units employment equity plans.
- Please note that when applying for any position, reference checks will be completed and personal information as defined in the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 will be processed. In applying for this position, applicants will be deemed to have consented to such processing as defined in the included Privacy Statement.
- Please also note that if you have not been contacted within 1 month after the closing date of this advertisement, please accept that your application has been unsuccessful.
