Permanent - GL Accountant - Johannesburg (Incl. Northern Suburbs) - South Africa

Purpose of the Role:

This role will report to the Financial Director for Southern Africa. In this role, you'll be utilising your technical accounting expertise to provide the support functions mentioned below.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Post and process journal entries to ensure all business transactions are recorded
• Update financial data in databases to ensure that information will be accurate and immediately available
• Assist Finance Manager in the preparation of monthly/yearly closings
• Assist in preparation of year-end Audit Schedules
• Assist with other accounting projects
• Provide input into department’s goal setting process
• Participate in the setting up and review of accounting procedures

Creditors:

• Process supplier invoices for work done
• Ensure that all creditor accounts are reconciled on a monthly basis
• Ensure accurate payments to creditors within agreed payment terms
• Ensure that accruals are accounted for monthly and at year-end
• Ensure that only valid creditors are paid
• Perform age analysis of creditors and follow up on balances older than 30 days
• Manage open Goods Received Accrual Accounts by following up on amounts older than 60 days
• Process correction journals
• Provide creditor reports as requested

Cash Books:

• Process bank transactions into cashbooks
• Reconcile bank accounts to cashbooks
• Resolve queries in relation to bank transactions

Month-end-processes

• Trial balance review to ensure correct revenue and operating expenses allocations
• Ensure monthly journal provisions are processed timeously
• Maintain and reconcile inter-company accounts
• Meeting monthly reporting deadlines
• Balance Sheet accounts reconciliations
• Managing the opening and closing of the financial month
• Monthly SARS reporting on VAT and PAYE and payments
• Income tax returns.
• Monthly expense variance analysis 

  Fixed Assets Register:

  • Maintain accurate fixed asset register
  • Create and monitor a system of controls, procedures, and forms for the recording of fixed assets
  • Assign tag numbers to fixed assets
  • Record fixed asset acquisitions and dispositions in the accounting system
  • Reconcile the balance in the fixed asset register to control accounts in the general ledger
  • Perform depreciation run for all fixed assets
  • Review fixed assets register and accumulated depreciation monthly.
  • Investigate potential obsolescence of fixed assets
  • Conduct periodic physical inventory counts of fixed assets and recommend to management whether fixed assets should be disposed of

B Com Accounting (or equivalent)

CA – advantageous

Preferred Skills

Minimum 3 years work experience

MS Expertise – Excel

Knowledge of SAP

Knowledge of Tax and Accounting

Accuracy and attention to detail

Deadline Orientated

Strong work ethic

Thorough knowledge of basic accounting procedures and principles

Awareness of business trends

Experience with general ledger functions and the month-end/year- end close processes

Aptitude for numbers and quantitative skills