Assistant Accountant

**Job Advert Summary**:
Spur Corporation is a growing multi-brand restaurant franchisor, headquartered in Cape Town. The group currently has Ten brands, namely, Spur Steak Ranches, Panarottis Pizza Pasta, John Dory’s Fish Grill Sushi, RocoMamas, The Hussar Grill, Casa Bella, Nikos Coalgrill Greek, Doppio Zero, Modern Tailors and Piza e Vino. In order to retain an exceptional talent pool, the group endeavours to create a great place to work, building a collaborative and innovative performance-based culture which enables each employee to thrive on his or her unique Spur Corporation journey. Spur Corporation’s employees are passionate and purpose-driven people growing great brands. Through their dedicated service and talent, they offer support to the group’s endeavours and operational activities, offering an exceptional return on investment to all its shareholders. A career at Spur Corporation is an opportunity for an employee to nurture, learn, grow, and realise their full potential.

A position has become available in the Finance Department at the Century City Office, Cape Town for an Assistant Accountant to assist the Accounts Services Manager to deliver accurate, timely and relevant financial information to the business in order to make sound economic decisions. The incumbent will mainly be involved in preparing/performing certain financial transactions such as operational expense reconciliations including travel expenses and credit card management, cash book reconciliations, trial balance preparation, asset register management and thereby ensuring that only high quality financial information is disseminated to the organisation.

**Minimum Requirements**:
**Minimum Requirements**

**Educational**
- Accounting Diploma or equivalent

**Knowledge and experience**
- At least two years’ experience in a similar role
- Good ability to understand transactional processing
- Strong bookkeeping skills
- Good systems and financial controls (policies and processes) knowledge

**Skills**
- Good MS Excel skills
- Analytical and problem solving skills
- Written and verbal communication
- Excellent attention to detail

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
**Financial reconciliation and recording**
- Generate Operational expense transactions and Journal Entries to ensure accuracy and compliance in preparation of Balance Sheet Reconciliations (local and International).
- Receiving and validating documentary proof of expenses (cash and credit card claims)
- Capturing of local and International operational expenses
- Processing of all journal entries and requests - travel, credit cards and mobile phones and cash
- Examine and analyse Income statements and compare balances with General Ledger and accounting records.
- Check and verify meal voucher balances in accordance with sales and stock balances for journal processing and system updates.

**Governance, systems and control environment**
- Completion of monthly balance sheet reconciliation relating to unbudgeted operating expenses
- Maintain company chart of accounts for operating expenses

**Fixed Assets**
- Print of trial balance - repairs and maintenance - validation of correct allocation of cost
- Request invoices and documentary support - prepare reconciliation with recommendation on action.
- Prepare journals approved - moving cost to correct GL and capture fixed assets as and when required.
- Capitalize fixed assets.
- Constantly check balances on trial balance
- Run and post depreciation.
- Run reports for additions, disposals, fixed asset register - end of period.
- Maintain fixed asset register

**Routine transactions**
- Processing of routine (including prepayment and accruals) and correcting journal entries for all advertising accounts, and other entities as required
- Review all journal entries processed by Assistant Accountant (all entities)

**Ad hoc**
- Assist Accounts Services Manager with month-end processes
- Assist processing team in other financial-related tasks

**Other**
- Any other reasonable request