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Accountant

Persona Staff
Cape Town Full-day Full-time

Description:

If you're passionate about numbers and eager to make a difference in the import/export industry, we want to hear from you!Our client is in search of an Accountant to join their dynamic team in Cape Town. Requirements:
  • A relevant tertiary qualification would be advantageous
  • Minimum of 5 years working experience in a similar role
  • Understanding of financial software
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills
  • Ability to manage and guide employees with the financial processes.
  • An understanding of financial statistics and accounting principles
  • An understanding of South African financial regulations, tax laws and accounting standards
  • Have the ability to lead a team.
  • Experience in dealing with foreign currency and exchange rates.
Responsibilities:
  • Process supplier invoices
  • Confirm all relevant source documents.
  • Weekly recon of stock / freight supplier accounts for review to the CEO
  • Compiling the creditors payment list weekly for the CFO
  • Ensure the invoices and credit notes are aligned and captured correctly.
  • Update the excel bank recon sheet daily (Dollar)
  • Capture various bank statements and reconcile daily.
  • Process bank transfers/ deals (FEC)
  • Process foreign outward payments
  • Verify/check the freight and delivery costs.
  • Verify supplier costs.
  • Verify customer costs.
  • Verify any other costs relating to projects.
  • Requesting and checking budgets
  • Create journals/sheets for freight/delivery provisions.
  • Creating reversing journals S/sheet / working papers
  • Summarize all relevant details on the customer control sheet.
  • Confirm if all the details on the sheet is correct and complete it without duplications.
  • Submit the documents to the CFO for review.
  • Compile the VAT201 report.
  • Compare the VAT404 with VAT201 reports.
  • Verify transactions.
  • Requesting ISA statements
  • Process relevant journals
  • Recon ISA statements to Pastel
  • Keep FAR up to date with any additional assets.
  • Process monthly the depreciation journal to Pastel and reconcile to FAR.
  • File assets invoices for record keeping purposes and upload it to the cloud-based system.
  • Analyze the payroll reports.
  • Reconcile the salary expenses and control the account with working paper.
  • Process the payroll journal to Pastel.
  • Draft new job descriptions/scopes for the finance department
  • Posting of new appointments
  • Liaise with the recruitment agencies regarding new posts.
  • Be part of the interview panel for new appointments
  • Ordering the Friday staff lunch
  • Assisting with year-end audits and working papers
To apply, please send your CV to cindy@personastaff.co.za

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Should you not receive feedback within 48 hours, please accept your application as unsuccessful.

Persona Staff (Pty) Ltd is POPIA (Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013) compliant, all personal information is protected according to legislation. Applying for any of our available vacancies, you give Persona Staff consent to process your Personal Information for Recruitment Purposes, according to the POPI ACT, 2013. If you have any concerns regarding your Personal Information and our compliance towards the legislation, you are welcome to request out POPI Act Policy.

Requirements:

  • A relevant tertiary qualification would be advantageous
  • Minimum of 5 years working experience in a similar role
  • Understanding of financial software
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills
  • Ability to manage and guide employees with the financial processes.
  • An understanding of financial statistics and accounting principles
  • An understanding of South African financial regulations, tax laws and accounting standards
  • Have the ability to lead a team.
  • Experience in dealing with foreign currency and exchange rates.
  • Process supplier invoices
  • Confirm all relevant source documents.
  • Weekly recon of stock / freight supplier accounts for review to the CEO
  • Compiling the creditors payment list weekly for the CFO
  • Ensure the invoices and credit notes are aligned and captured correctly.
  • Update the excel bank recon sheet daily (Dollar)
  • Capture various bank statements and reconcile daily.
  • Process bank transfers/ deals (FEC)
  • Process foreign outward payments
  • Verify/check the freight and delivery costs.
  • Verify supplier costs.
  • Verify customer costs.
  • Verify any other costs relating to projects.
  • Requesting and checking budgets
  • Create journals/sheets for freight/delivery provisions.
  • Creating reversing journals S/sheet / working papers
  • Summarize all relevant details on the customer control sheet.
  • Confirm if all the details on the sheet is correct and complete it without duplications.
  • Submit the documents to the CFO for review.
  • Compile the VAT201 report.
  • Compare the VAT404 with VAT201 reports.
  • Verify transactions.
  • Requesting ISA statements
  • Process relevant journals
  • Recon ISA statements to Pastel
  • Keep FAR up to date with any additional assets.
  • Process monthly the depreciation journal to Pastel and reconcile to FAR.
  • File assets invoices for record keeping purposes and upload it to the cloud-based system.
  • Analyze the payroll reports.
  • Reconcile the salary expenses and control the account with working paper.
  • Process the payroll journal to Pastel.
  • Draft new job descriptions/scopes for the finance department
  • Posting of new appointments
  • Liaise with the recruitment agencies regarding new posts.
  • Be part of the interview panel for new appointments
  • Ordering the Friday staff lunch
  • Assisting with year-end audits and working papers
05 Apr 2024;   from: careers24.com

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