Senior Accountant

Description:

Renowned Company is looking for a Senior Accountant to join their team

Academic Qualifications Required:

• Matric with Accounting at a Higher Grade
• BCom degree or equivalent degree with Accounting III and taxation
• Completed SAIPA articles or SAICA articles

  OR

  • More than 6 years of experience in an accounting practice

    Skills:

    • Interpersonal skills
    • Communication skills: Be able to converse in English / Afrikaans / Xhosa (advantageous)
    • Report writing skills
    • Time Management
    • Problem solving skills
    • Organisational skills
    • Training presentation skills
    • Supervisory skills: Ability to supervise junior and intermediate accountants and provide leadership.
    • Strong Accounting, Taxation and Auditing knowledge
    • Decisive and accurate
    • Ability to prioritise
    • Ability to work under pressure in a deadline-driven environment

      Required Computer Packages:

      • Pastel
      • Microsoft office – Excel and Word, Windows
      • CaseWare
      • Xero

        Key Duties and Responsibilities – Key Performance Indicators:

        • Supervise and initiating the processing of client information receipts, sales invoices, purchase invoices
        • Perform bank reconciliations
        • Processing and reconciling of Petty Cash and cash control accounts
        • Keeping of a fixed asset register
        • General journals – e.g., depreciation, provisions, interest, salaries, stock, etc.
        • Process journal entries e.g., new instalment sale agreements, interest on borrowings, provisions, accruals of income and expenses, bad debts etc.
        • Distinguish between finance and operating leases.
        • Foreign exchange transactions
        • Reconcile debtors and creditors statements.
        • Correct accounting treatment on disposal of assets (property, plant & equipment) and investments and the calculation of the taxation on capital gains/losses.
        • Analyse the resulting trial balance for mistakes / deviations and be able to discuss the results with the client.
        • Analytical review of AFS – GP%, Inventory days, Creditors days, Debtors days
        • Ability to record books from insufficient records.
        • Produce a draft set of financials according to generally accepted accounting practice and a working paper file according to the standards per the training file for sole proprietors, close corporations, trusts, partnerships, small business corporations, farmers and Body Corporates.
        • Prepare the notes to financial statements
        • Formulate accounting policies
        • Identifying provisions and contingent liabilities
        • Calculate the tax liability for sole proprietors, individuals, close corporations and trusts, small business corporations, farmers, Body corporates and partnerships.
        • Calculate the taxation on lumpsum payments by retirement
        • Tax planning – e.g., fringe benef