Accountant

Job Position: Accountant
Ref: 4700
Location: PE/Gqeberha
Salary: R35 000 to R40 000 per month CTC commensurate with qualification and experience

Email your CV to [email protected]

Qualifications / Requirements:
• Must have some CIPC experience – company registrations etc
• GreatSoft experience highly advantageous
• SAIPA registered / B.Com / B.Com (Honours) preferable
• Good technical knowledge
• Strong communication skills with staff management experience
Key Performance Areas:
• Manage Bookkeepers, training and assisting in queries
• Monitoring to ensure that requirements of Bookkeepers are met
• Mentoring and counselling Bookkeepers which includes monthly ratings
• Attend to daily queries at store level
• Maintenance and management of the information saved on the electronic storage drives for staff and client information
• Daily / weekly tasks:
- Checking that Bookkeepers have done their banking checks
- Authorizing store expenditure after scrutinizing supporting documentation (valid business expenses, VAT requirements)
- Release payments on electronic banking
- Address client queries, staff queries and other internal group queries and requests for information
- Ensure Bookkeepers meet their daily and weekly requirements
• Monthly tasks:
- Check salaries, incentives and locum salaries
- Performing/checking incentive calculations for staff at stores
- Ensure all salary related items, EMP’s, etc are completed by Bookkeepers, and then second released
- Address any salary related queries that come in from stores or clients
- Inputting and completion of monthly consolidation for the required stores
- Obtaining and checking loan amortizations for loans, car finance, etc
- Review store processing done by the Bookkeepers, raising review notes, ensuring these are cleared
- Review management accounts after review of the Bookkeeper files, and then send management accounts to Owners once reviewed, dealing with queries on management accounts
- Prepare for and run training sessions for staff (Bookkeepers) and clients where required
- New staff training taking them through A-Z of the bookkeeping process
- Check the PAYE/VAT recons done by the Bookkeepers
- Resolve queries with SARS and ensure SARS communications are picked up by Bookkeepers and addressed
- Obtaining, reviewing and saving the month ends for stores from the point-of –sale for correctness, looking for errors
- For applicable stores, complete drawdown lists for fund injection
- Administrators on bank profiles, responsible for adding, removing or editing staff’s access and rights
- Pastel roll-overs, error resolution, access to staff, etc
- E-filing administrators for adding, deleting and editing staff profiles
- Order stationery requirements for all staff
- Back-to-work interviews for staff that have been off sick
- Set Bookkeeper deadlines in order for staff to have direction and a plan to meet deadlines
- Manage the post process with staff to ensure that all post received on behalf of clients is opened and addressed
• Yearly tasks:
- Manage the process with clients for staff increases once a year / distributing the guidelines, etc
- Set turnover targets for stores for their next financial year / discussing these targets with clients
- Detailed involvement in the full audit process which is done on behalf of clients with the selected audit firms (planning stage, supplying information to Auditors, addressing audit queries, evaluating audit journals, passing these journals, finalization of the audits)
- IRP501 reconciliation twice a year – provide HR with information and resolve queries
- Pastel renewals and roll-overs
- Staff appraisals
• Ad-hoc tasks:
- Business plans for prospective new franchisees in order for them to get financing
- New staff set-up (computers, desks, IT requirements, stationery, etc)
- Manage the new store process
- Check provisional tax calculations from the Auditors
- Complete IT14SD reconciliations if required from SARS when Auditors submit the tax return
- Obtain from the Auditors audit certificates for TV licenses, turnovers required by Landlords, etc
- Updating, developing, maintaining internal templates, procedures, etc