Job Specifications for Accountant

Key performance areas:
Debtors
1. Daily and monthly customer invoicing
2. Sending out customer invoices and statements on a monthly basis and maintaining the customer control list
3. Debt collection
4. Customer account reconciliations

Creditors
5. Supplier capturing, processing, reconciliation and payment

Bank and petty cash
6. Bank processing and reconciling on a daily basis and closing off at month end
7. Assistance with petty cash requirements, re-imbursements and reconciliations

Adhoc
8. Ordering of office water, stationery, cartridges
9. Filing
10. Assistance with finance requests for telephone lines, marketing invoicing, and all other finance related tasks
11. Maintenance of the fixed asset register and insurance schedules
12. Assistance with implementation of processes and procedures

Annual
13. Assistance in audit file preparation
Management reporting
14. General Ledger maintenance
15. Assistance with monthly management accounts
16. Assistance with balance sheet reconciliations

Payroll
17. Assistance with payroll processing and administration
Statutory
18. Assistance with monthly, bi-annual and annual statutory returns (VAT, EMP, Provisional Tax, Income Tax, Dividends Tax, Employment Equity, IRP5 reconciliations, Workman’s Compensation)

Critical Competencies:
1. Completed SAICA/SAIPA articles
2. Two-to-three years’ post-article experience
3. Accounting firm background with experience in all the above key performance indicators as well as audit experience
4. Pastel Partner and Pastel Payroll experience
5. Microsoft Office
6. Bookkeeping up to trial balance
7. Experience in all SARS statutory requirements, calculations and submissions
8. Afrikaans and English speaking (Fully-Bilingual)
9. Female candidate


Personality:
1. Ability to carry out tasks as instructed
2. Thorough and meticulous
3. Accuracy and attention to detail
4. Able to take on a challenge
5. Able to manage own time
6. Able to work in a group as well as alone with limited supervision
7. Not afraid to ask for assistance with difficult tasks
8. Analytical
9. Planning and organising skills
10. Thinking out of the box
11. Comfortable with working in a predominantly female environment
12. Willing to learn