Senior Acountant

**General Requirements**:

- Unconditional integrity
- Positive attitude
- Strong communication skills, written and verbal
- Creative problem solving skills
- Strong on MS Office (especially Excel)
- Deadline driven and able to manage time
- Meticulous and accurate with a strong attention to detail
- Strong processing skills
- Pastel Evolution Experience advantageous

**Educational Requirements**:

- B.Com or equivalent degree
- SAIPA / SAICA articles and SAIPA / SAICA Professional designation advantageous

**Experience Requirements**:

- Post article experience
- 2 - 3 years’ experience in the field
- Good understanding of internal controls
- Ability to handle complex transactions

**Job Specification**:
**Key responsibilities include**:

- Prepares asset, liability, capital account, income and expense entries by compiling and analysing source documents and information;
- Documents financial transactions by entering account information;
- Recommends financial actions by analysing accounting options;
- Compiling and processing journal entries;
- Guides accounting clerical staff by coordinating activities;
- Reconciles financial discrepancies by collecting and analysing account information;
- Process and perform daily reconciliations of internal financial systems;
- Process and perform monthly reconciliations of key balance sheet accounts;
- Maintains financial security by following internal controls;
- Prepare payments by verifying documentation, and requesting disbursements.
- Analysing and investigating annual and monthly financial accounts;
- Preparing monthly management accounts, reports, budgets, commentaries and financial statements;
- Liaising with managerial staff, colleagues and clients;
- Maintain the administrative tasks associated with the accounting function;
- Develop, implement, modify, and document recordkeeping and accounting systems, making use of current computer technology;
- Controlling income and expenditure;
- Survey operations to ascertain accounting needs and to recommend, develop, and maintain solutions to business and financial problems;
- Compute taxes and VAT and prepare tax and VAT returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting and other tax requirements;
- Attend to all queries from internal and external parties in a professional and timely manner;
- Coordinate and manage the annual financial audits;
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed; and
- Perform any task that is reasonably requested by the employer.