Centurion: Accountant (Trusts / Investments) posted by Stonebridge HR Solutions

Position overview:
This is a multifaceted role requiring an individual who can seamlessly manage financial administration, bookkeeping, investment portfolio oversight, trust and company administration, statutory compliance, governance obligations, and executive support functions.
The successful candidate will act as a trusted right-hand person to the Directors, ensuring the efficient management of family wealth structures, operating entities, investment portfolios, trusts, and personal affairs while maintaining the highest levels of confidentiality, professionalism, and integrity.
The position is ideally suited to a finance professional who enjoys a broad scope of responsibilities and thrives in an environment requiring initiative, ownership, discretion, and exceptional attention to detail.

Requirements:
Qualifications

• Com, B.Compt, B.Acc, Accounting Diploma or equivalent tertiary qualification.
• Additional qualifications in Taxation, Governance, Compliance, Risk Management, Investments, Trust Administration, or Payroll Administration will be advantageous.

Experience

• Minimum 7–10 years’ relevant experience with a focus on Trusts / Investment as well as Tax
• Experience in accounting, bookkeeping, finance administration, payroll, compliance, investments, trusts, or family office environments.
• Experience working with multiple entities including companies, trusts, and investment structures.
• Experience supporting directors, executives, or high-net-worth individuals will be advantageous.
• Experience within a family office, accounting practice, private investment environment, trust administration environment, or multi-entity business structure will be advantageous.

Technical Competencies

• Strong accounting and financial reporting
• Experience managing full bookkeeping functions up to trial
• Sound understanding of South African tax
• Knowledge of payroll administration and statutory
• Knowledge of trust administration and corporate
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, not scared to use technology
• Experience with Pastel Partner, Intercode Payroll, Microsoft Office and com.
• Strong reporting, analytical, and reconciliation
• Excellent document management and record-keeping

COMPETENCIES & PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
Professional Attributes

• Exceptional integrity and Absolute Ability to manage highly confidential family, financial and business information with absolute discretion.
• Strong ownership
• High levels of accountability and Professional and mature

Personal Effectiveness

• Outstanding organisational
• Exceptional attention to
• Ability to work
• Strong multitasking
• Ability to prioritise
• High levels of
• Not scared to use

Communication

• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Strong stakeholder management
• Ability to engage professionally with family members, executives, trustees, advisors, auditors, attorneys, bankers and service providers.

Problem Solving

• Strong analytical and critical thinking
• Practical and solution-oriented
• Ability to anticipate issues and proactively implement

Time Management

• Excellent planning and organisational
• Ability to manage multiple competing
• Ability to perform effectively under

Teamwork

• Positive and collaborative
• Flexible and
• Willingness to assist beyond defined responsibilities when

Responsibilities:
Financial Management & Accounting

• Maintain full bookkeeping functions for multiple entities up to trial
• Process and maintain creditors and debtor’s
• Process supplier invoices and reconcile supplier
• Generate customer invoices and monitor
• Maintain accurate
• Perform daily, weekly, and monthly bank
• Process general ledger
• Reconcile all balance sheet
• Maintain fixed asset
• Assist with month-end and year-end accounting
• Prepare monthly management accounts and supporting
• Prepare financial reports and analysis for
• Monitor cash flow and liquidity
• Assist with budgeting and
• Manage banking relationships and banking administration across all
• Prepare banking documentation and coordinate account openings, amendments and closures.
• Monitor liquidity requirements and cash positioning across
• Maintain accurate accounting records across all

Payroll Administration

• Process monthly payroll accurately and
• Maintain payroll records and employee
• Process leave, salary adjustments, appointments, and
• Reconcile payroll control
• Ensure payroll compliance with all applicable
• Administer employee-related statutory

Taxation & Statutory Compliance

• Prepare, review and coordinate tax compliance, tax calculations, provisional tax submissions and annual income tax returns for individuals, companies and trusts.
• Prepare and submit:
  • EMP201 returns
  • EMP501 reconciliations
  • VAT201 returns
  • Compensation Fund Returns of Earnings
  • UIF, PAYE and SDL submissions
• Prepare, review and submit annual personal income tax returns (ITR12) for family members and related individuals via SARS eFiling.
• Compile and maintain all supporting tax
• Calculate provisional tax liabilities and coordinate provisional tax submissions and payments.
• Liaise directly with SARS regarding assessments, verifications, audits, objections, and tax-related queries.
• Monitor tax compliance across all family members and ensure submissions are made within statutory deadlines.
• Coordinate with external tax practitioners and advisors where
• Maintain accurate records of tax correspondence, assessments, refunds, and supporting documentation.
• Maintain statutory compliance
• Monitor deadlines and regulatory
• Ensure compliance with all legislative and regulatory

Trust, Governance & Corporate Administration

• Maintain trust and company
• Coordinate trustee and director
• Manage statutory records and compliance
• Coordinate annual returns and regulatory
• Liaise with trustees, attorneys, accountants and advisors regarding trust administration matters.
• Maintain trust resolutions, trustee records and trust compliance
• Assist with governance reporting and compliance
• Maintain secure document repositories and

Investment Portfolio Administration

• Maintain comprehensive records of all investment portfolios and
• Maintain an investment register detailing ownership structures, capital commitments, income distributions and maturity dates.
• Capture and reconcile investment
• Monitor investment maturity dates and
• Track investment performance and portfolio
• Prepare consolidated investment
• Assist Directors with investment reporting, performance analysis and investment-related decision support.
• Reconcile investment balances to institution
• Liaise with wealth managers, investment advisors, stockbrokers and financial institutions.
• Assist with investment research and due
• Maintain investment schedules on Excel and com

Please note only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you have not heard from us in 2 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.