Overview:

• Our client, a Private Equity firm based in Johannesburg, are looking for a newly qualified SAIPA Accountant to join their dynamic finance team. The primary focus of this role will be managing the daily and monthly accounting and financial tasks including control procedures.

Key qualifications and experience for the Junior Accountant:

• Minimum BCom Accounting/Finance degree
• SAIPA articles completed / Professional Accountant
• 0-2 years post qualification experience
• History of outstanding academic achievement (Advantageous)
• Financial Services sector experience (Advantageous)

Key duties for the Junior Accountant include but are not limited to:
Supplier invoice and payment process

• Receiving, validating and capturing supplier invoices
• Reconciling supplier statement to general ledger
• Compiling and loading payment batches

Expense tracking and analysis

• Invoice and receipts process
• Obtaining invoicing data from relevant parties and sense check
• Raising customer invoices
• Reconciling general ledger to source documents
• Timeous collection of debtors

Bank accounts and cash book

• Processing cash book into accounting system
• Perform bank reconciliations
• Banking administration (completing and submitting forms and documentation required)
• Adding and maintaining beneficiaries
• Ensuring bank accounts and corporate cards are sufficiently funded

General accounting

• Maintaining fixed asset registers
• Maintaining loan amortisation schedules
• Creating and maintaining relevant balance sheet and income statement schedules
• Processing periodic journals in accounting system

Management accounts

• Assistance in the preparation of monthly management accounts (P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow, supporting schedules – legal entity and aggregated) for review
• Assisting in preparation of packs and schedules for board of directors and shareholders

Tax

• Preparing VAT201 for review

Statutory

• Maintaining accurate statutory records
• Preparing CIPC annual returns

Audit

• Assistance in audit process
• Responding to audit requests and providing relevant supporting documentation and explanations

Other

• Reporting into the Group Accountant
• 5 days a week working from office

Key personal skills for the Junior Accountant:

• Self-starter, efficient, process driven, and solution-orientated
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities
• Strong analytical skills with excellent attention to detail
• Desire to learn, grow and take on challenges
• Ability to perform in a fast-paced working environment as a team player
• Personality that thrives in a small business with the ability to take initiative and ownership