Port Elizabeth: Senior Accountant posted by Performit Personnel
Posted on 2025-05-18 00:00:00
Employer | Performit Personnel |
---|---|
Category | Accountant |
Location | Eastern Cape / Port Elizabeth |
Job Summary
Renowned Company is looking for a Senior Accountant to join their team
Academic Qualifications Required:
- Matric with Accounting at a Higher Grade
- BCom degree or equivalent degree with Accounting III and taxation
- Completed SAIPA articles or SAICA articles
OR
- More than 6 years of experience in an accounting practice
Skills:
- Interpersonal skills
- Communication skills: Be able to converse in English / Afrikaans / Xhosa (advantageous)
- Report writing skills
- Time Management
- Problem solving skills
- Organisational skills
- Training presentation skills
- Supervisory skills: Ability to supervise junior and intermediate accountants and provide leadership.
- Strong Accounting, Taxation and Auditing knowledge
- Decisive and accurate
- Ability to prioritise
- Ability to work under pressure in a deadline-driven environment
Required Computer Packages:
- Pastel
- Microsoft office Excel and Word, Windows
- CaseWare
- Xero
Key Duties and Responsibilities Key Performance Indicators:
- Supervise and initiating the processing of client information receipts, sales invoices, purchase invoices
- Perform bank reconciliations
- Processing and reconciling of Petty Cash and cash control accounts
- Keeping of a fixed asset register
- General journals e.g., depreciation, provisions, interest, salaries, stock, etc.
- Process journal entries e.g., new instalment sale agreements, interest on borrowings, provisions, accruals of income and expenses, bad debts etc.
- Distinguish between finance and operating leases.
- Foreign exchange transactions
- Reconcile debtors and creditors statements.
- Correct accounting treatment on disposal of assets (property, plant & equipment) and investments and the calculation of the taxation on capital gains/losses.
- Analyse the resulting trial balance for mistakes / deviations and be able to discuss the results with the client.
- Analytical review of AFS GP%, Inventory days, Creditors days, Debtors days
- Ability to record books from insufficient records.
- Produce a draft set of financials according to generally accepted accounting practice and a working paper file according to the standards per the training file for sole proprietors, close corporations, trusts, partnerships, small business corporations, farmers and Body Corporates.
- Prepare the notes to financial statements
- Formulate accounting policies
- Identifying provisions and contingent liabilities
- Calculate the tax liability for sole proprietors, individuals, close corporations and trusts, small business corporations, farmers, Body corporates and partnerships.
- Calculate the taxation on lumpsum payments by retirement
- Tax planning e.g., fringe benefits and allowances
- Tax avoidance / Non-resident tax
- Secondary tax on companies
- Perform vouching tests during an audit of (Pty) Ltd and Body Corporates to verify completeness, existence, accuracy, valuation, ownership and presentation.
- Calculation of PAYE/UIF/SDL levies and VAT.
- Completion of statutory returns e.g., UIF/SDL/PAYE/VAT.
- Liase with client re payment of the above returns.
- Reconciliations of input/output VAT to annual financial statements and monthly trial balances
- Compiling and discussing with the client of monthly management accounts.
- Complete a tax return for individuals, close corporations, trusts and body corporates.
- Recording and identifying short comings in internal controls
- Identifying risks and calculate materiality
- Statutory checks members certificates, founding statements, association agreements etc.
- Pre-engagement procedures
- Acquisition of members interest / shareholding
- Review the monthly files of junior to intermediate accountants
- Completion and review of Management representation letters
- Qualifying the report of an Accounting Officer
Other
Concept and characteristics of close corporations / private company / sole proprietor / trusts / clubs / sectional titles
Advantages and disadvantages of the above
- Loans to members of the above
- Powers of members to bind the above
- Personal liability of members to CC/company and others
- Accounting records to be maintained
- The duties and rights of an accounting officer
- Provide assistance to junior and intermediate accountants
- Any other duty/work/client that is not the normal run-of-the-mill activity e.g. and is of a more complex nature
- Provide and develop training for junior and intermediate accountants
- Perform basic administrative duties as needed on a day-to-day basis
- Review the working papers of junior to intermediate accountants.
- Able to audit and Body Corporates and perform Independent Reviews
- Software
- Set-up up accounting systems for clients
- Suitable hardware and software
- Training of client staff in using the software (Pastel)
- Compliance with the firms System of Quality Management (SOQM), policies and procedures.
- Compliance with the firms Employee Code of Conduct which consists of the firms HR policies, SAICA, IRBA and IESBA Codes of Conduct.
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