Senior Accountant

3 weeks ago

Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa Performit Personnel Full time

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 benefits and allowances
  • Tax avoidance / Non-resident tax
  • Secondary tax on companies
  • Perform vouching tests during an audit of (Pty) Ltd and Body Corporates to verify completeness, existence, accuracy, valuation, ownership and presentation.
  • Calculation of PAYE/UIF/SDL levies and VAT.
  • Completion of statutory returns e.g., UIF/SDL/PAYE/VAT.
  • Liase with client re payment of the above returns.
  • Reconciliations of input/output VAT to annual financial statements and monthly trial balances
  • Compiling and discussing with the client of monthly management accounts.
  • Complete a tax return for individuals, close corporations, trusts and body corporates.
  • Recording and identifying short comings in internal controls
  • Identifying risks and calculate materiality
  • Statutory checks – member's certificates, founding statements, association agreements etc.
  • Pre-engagement procedures
  • Acquisition of member's interest / shareholding
  • Review the monthly files of junior to intermediate accountants
  • Completion and review of Management representation letters
  • Qualifying the report of an Accounting Officer

Other

Concept and characteristics of close corporations / private company / sole proprietor / trusts / clubs / sectional titles

Advantages and disadvantages of the above

  • Loans to members of the above
  • Powers of members to bind the above
  • Personal liability of members to CC/company and others
  • Accounting records to be maintained
  • The duties and rights of an accounting officer
  • Provide assistance to junior and intermediate accountants
  • Any other duty/work/client that is not the normal run-of-the-mill activity e.g. and is of a more complex nature
  • Provide and develop training for junior and intermediate accountants
  • Perform basic administrative duties as needed on a day-to-day basis
  • Review the working papers of junior to intermediate accountants.
  • Able to audit and Body Corporates and perform Independent Reviews
  • Software
  • Set-up up accounting systems for clients
  • Suitable hardware and software
  • Training of client staff in using the software (Pastel)
  • Compliance with the firm's System of Quality Management (SOQM), policies and procedures.
  • Compliance with the firm's Employee Code of Conduct which consists of the firm's HR policies, SAICA, IRBA and IESBA Codes of Conduct.
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