Our client, a fast-growing financial technology company, is looking for an Accountant to join their team.
The successful candidate will be responsible for a wide variety of finance related and operational tasks including being responsible for all financial records up to trial balance level,
preparing reconciliations and assisting with various operational tasks.
Responsibilities
- Being responsible for South Africa operating companies
- Processing all accounting transactions in Xero
- Loan disbursement management
- Clearing suspense accounts
- Managing small balance write up/write down
- Monitoring bank account balances
- Ensuring Xero is in line with lending system
- Managing supplier ledger, payments and creditors reconciliation
- Bank reconciliations
- Filing all supporting documentation
- Maintaining the fixed asset register and leading annual physical verification exercise
- Identifying and capturing intercompany transactions
- Ensuring intercompany and related party balances reconcile
- Communicating and assisting with adhoc banking requirements
- Preparing monthly balance sheet reconciliations
- Ensuring correct classifications of all VAT transactions
- Producing VAT report, filing VAT 201 returns and preparing reconciliation
- Ensuring salaries journals are captured correctly
- Reconciling salaries creditors accounts
- Updating income tax and deferred tax computations
- Ensuring all accounting records are maintained in accordance with IFRS and Group accounting policy
- Assisting with budget preparation
- Preparing monthly management accounts
- Assisting Group Accountants when required
Minimum requirements
- Accounting degree/CIMA
- 3 years commercial experience
- Basic knowledge of IFRS
- Good knowledge of Xero would be advantageous
- People management
- MS Excel skills
- Attention to detail
- Ability to meet deadlines
Desired Skills:
- Xero
- IFRS