Accountant (SAIPA or AGA(SA) qualification)

We have a vacancy for an accountant. The incumbent must have a SAIPA or AGA(SA) qualification.
The candidate must have excellent accounting knowledge as per the job description below.

Technical Performance and Financial Performance
• Have an excellent knowledge of accounting
• Manage the allocated engagements, ensuring that they are completed within the approved budget depending on the issues encountered
• Ensure that all budget overruns are communicated timeously
• Ensure that the staff on managed engagements charge all the client related time worked
• Communicate the planning to colleagues of the engagement allocated
• Delegate appropriate work assignments to staff (when available) based on their experience and ability.
• Supervise, manage or perform (where required) a quality compilation and accounting officers’ engagement
• Perform a detailed review of the working papers, which meets the standards of the firm
• Ensure that the technical issues are identified prior to the file being reviewed by you
• Produce high quality documents which are factual and grammatically correct
• Effective use of technology to ensure performance of an efficient assignment
• Produce high quality financial statements that are appropriate to the business concerned
• Monitoring and training staff as required.

Write Ups
• Prepare budgets for approval by manager or partner prior to beginning work (all trainees and seniors also)
• Capture client financial information on Pastel or CaseWare
• Process relevant year end journal entries
• Prepare Trial Balance
• Prepare quality working paper file, which meets the standards of the Firm
• Draft quality annual financial statements
• Prepare all documents that are required to be signed by client, ensuring that these are in the brown cover when handing the file in for review
• Prepare analysis of time spent to budget with detailed explanations of any deviations prior to handing in file

Compilations in terms of IFRS for SMEs and Accounting officers’ engagements and Trust Compilations
• Prepare budgets for approval by manager or partner prior to beginning work
• Capture client financial information on Pastel or CaseWare
• Process relevant year end journal entries
• Prepare Trial Balance
• Prepare quality working paper file, which meets the standards of the Firm
• Draft quality annual financial statements in accordance with the applicable accounting practice
• Prepare all documents that are required to be signed by client, ensuring that these are in brown cover when handing the file in for review
• Prepare analysis of time spent to budget with detailed explanations of any deviations prior to handing in file

Statutory Returns
• VAT calculations
• Completion of VAT Returns
• Ensure that these are completed and submitted timeously