Senior Accountant

SUMMARY:
Our client, a nationwide firm of Chartered Accountants & Auditors, seeks your senior accounting experience to prepare and maintain a checklist of all clients under your portfolio, with services to be performed for each client.

POSITION INFO:
The Person:

• B.Com Degree or Accounting Diploma.
• SAICA/SAIPA Articles a definite advantage.
• Min 3 to 4 years bookkeeping experience in an Accounting Firm.

• Client management, visit clients premises and troubleshoot.
• Prepare and review monthly management reports for clients.
• Supervise and review work of Junior Bookkeepers, which includes ensuring that the clients accounts are reconciled timeously (monthly) and accurately.
• Month end and year end journal entries and reconciliations.
• Update accounting records from source documents.
• Review trial balances and general ledger with the view to identifying misallocations, inconsistent accounting treatment.
• Create and set up a new general ledger file, with chart of accounts.
• Reconcile payroll on monthly basis.
• Prepare EMP201's, EMP501's, and Workmens Compensation calculations.
• Review/prepare monthly VAT201's.
• Prepare accounting records from source documents to final reconciled trial balance.
• Facilitate monthly meetings between client and Partners if required by client.
• Research and pass on information from applicable legislation, good practice and interpretation notes to Bookkeepers/Partners.
• Identify areas for training and communicate with Supervisor and assist in preparing training material, co-ordinate and facilitate training.
• Assist in the billing of monthly jobs in conjunction with Supervisor/Partner;.
• Give on-the-job training to Junior & Intermediate Accounts, with professional and technical skills.
• Ensure all client deliverables are met.

• Meeting monthly and annual client fee budgets.
• Advanced Excel/Word / Xero/Sage online / Pastel / Quickbooks / GreatSoft Accounting.
• SARS e-Filing.
• In-depth knowledge of general accounting bookkeeping theories and practices.
• Ability to manage multitask and work against short deadlines.
• Display exemplary personal integrity and maintain absolute respect of confidentiality.
• Self-motivated and proactive individual.
• Ability to work with minimum direction, able to use own initiative in assessing priorities.
• Ability to work on own initiative but also as part of a team when appropriate.
• Ability to sustain output quality even when under pressure to achieve key deadlines.
• Effective time management.
• Prioritising and forward planning practices.
• Leadership and supervisory skills.