Our client, a fast-growing financial technology company is looking for a Group Accountant to join their growing team.
The successful candidate will be responsible for a wide variety of finance-related tasks which includes being responsible for all financial records up to trial balance level, preparing reconciliations and maintaining various schedules.
Responsibilities
- Being responsible for parent and intermediate holding companies
- Processing all accounting transactions in Xero
- Managing supplier ledger, payments and creditors reconciliation
- Billing and managing customers ledger
- Bank reconciliations
- Filing all supporting documentation
- Maintaining the fixed asset register and leading the 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
- Preparing monthly management accounts
- Assisting with adhoc Group planning and analysis requirements
- Assisting with budget preparation
- Assisting with secretarial and tax administration
- Assisting subsidiary accountants when required
Minimum requirements
- Accounting degree
- Working knowledge of IFRS
- 3 years SAICA articles is an advantage
- Commercial experience required
- Good knowledge of Xero would be advantageous
- Good MS Excel skills
- Attention to detail
- Ability to meet deadlines
Desired Skills:
- Xero
- IFRS