Job Summary
Overview
The Accountant is responsible for maintaining the integrity and accuracy of the organization's financial records, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and accounting principles. This person reports to Financial/General Manager and ensures team morale is kept amongst their finance team. They have Finance Clerks and a Bookkeeper reporting in to them, and manage the team with regards to deadlines as well as performance and daily activities.
Requirements:
- Grade 12 / Matric
- Completed BCom / BCompt or similar (Bachelors Degree in Accounting)
- 5+ years experience in similar role / commercial environment
- Previous experience with Quick Service Restaurant environment (advantageous)
- Strong MS Excel experience and skills
Responsibilities:
- General Ledger and Journal Entries: Reviewing general journal entries and performing stock journal entries.
- Budget and Cashflows: Preparing and managing the cashflow and budget processes
- Accounts Payable Oversight: Reviewing creditors in the accounting package, ensuring accurate supplier payments, and ensuring sufficient cashflow for payments.
- Inter-company Transactions: Reviewing inter-company debtors and creditors reconciliations.
- VAT and Tax: Preparing VAT reconciliations and returns.
- Audit and Compliance: Assisting with audit readiness and queries.
- Payroll and Staff Accounts: Addressing queries on management accounts relating to payroll and managing payroll payments.
- Fixed Assets: Reviewing Fixed assets and managing the depreciation of assets.
- Other Financial Tasks: Monitoring bank balances, managing shareholder loans and interest, handling insurance claims and follow-up, invoicing third parties and ensuring fund recovery, and valuing creditors at month-end (including forex adjustments).
- Supervisory and Administrative Tasks: Supervising staff. Managing the approval process of the accounting systems.
- Purchase Order Review: Reviewing POs for accuracy and budget availability.
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