South Africa: Senior Accountant (Remote, Half day) posted by IS Recruitment

Job Description:

Senior Accountant (Half day R 18,000 )

Fully remote from SA for an UK company

Hours: 08h00 12h00

Role Purpose

You support the delivery of high-quality accounting work across the client portfolio. You are responsible for reviewing work, completing more complex tasks, while escalating higher-level judgement and technical matters.

You remain hands-on in processing, reporting, and accounts work.

Key Responsibilities

Portfolio & Processing (Hands-On)

• Manage a smaller portfolio of clients alongside junior accountants.
• Perform full processing and monthly reviews for assigned clients.
• Support juniors with:
  • Complex reconciliations.
  • Unusual transactions.
  • Xero setup or corrections.
• Keep Karbon updated on all work performed by you.
• Review & Quality Control (With Escalation)
• Review junior work for:
  • Balance sheet integrity.
  • VAT accuracy.
  • Management reporting readiness.
• Raise judgement or technical matters to manager.
• Implement feedback and decisions provided.

Management Reporting

• Assist with preparing and reviewing management reports.
• Ensure reports are:
  • Accurate.
  • Based on reconciled data.
• Add basic commentary where appropriate.
• Escalate strategic insights or concerns to the Head of Finance.
• Ensure reports are issued by the 15th of the month.

VAT (With Oversight)

• Review VAT returns prepared by juniors.
• Identify anomalies and errors.
• Escalate unclear VAT treatments.
• Confirm VAT is ready for client approval.
• Support juniors through corrections and learning.

Annual Accounts & Tax (Supported)

• Assist with:
  • Working paper preparation and review.
  • Drafting of annual accounts.
• Prepare corporation tax computations in TaxCalc with review.
• Support client meetings where required.
• Escalate technical decisions and final sign-off to the Head of Finance.