Senior Accountant
- East London, Eastern Cape
- Permanent
- Full-time
- BCom degree or equivalent work experience
- Completed articles (advantageous)
- Caseware (advantageous)
- Vanilla Payroll (advantageous)
- Pastel (advantageous)
- Xero (advantageous)
- Communication skills: Be able to converse in English/Afrikaans/Xhosa (advantageous)
- Supervise and initiating the processing of client information cheques, 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 ect.
- 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 and a working paper 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
- Non-resident tax
- Withholding Tax on companies
- Calculation of PAYE/UIF/SDL levies and VAT.
- Completion of statutory returns e.g. UIF/SDL/PAYE/VAT.
- Liaise with client re payment of the above returns.
- Preparations of payroll.
- Issuing of IRP5’s and IT3’s and reconciliation to EMP501 at year end.
- Reconciliations of input/output VAT to annual financial statements and monthly trial balances
- Compiling and discussing with the client of monthly management accounts.
- Recording and identifying short comings in internal controls
- Accounting for Loans on Related Parties
- Set-up of accounting systems for clients