Assistant Accountant
Full Booking function in addition to the below
- Ensure appropriate accounting policies are applied during the preparation of yearly budgets.
- Supervise daily operations within the scope of accounts receivable and accounts payable.
- Collaborate with accounts and finance managers to ensure the smooth running of an organization’s accounts department.
- Assist with tax returns, work independently on bookkeeping and account reconciliations and handle load payments on Standard Bank Business Online.
Reconciliation of historical entries on Microsoft Dynamics:
- Ability to identify errors.
- Investigating reconciling items and driving resolution with the Financial Manager and Financial Accountant.
- Reconciling unmatched payments to uncaptured invoices and credit notes
- General ledger reconciliations
- Analytical evaluation of vendor accounts against payments made.
General:
- Assist with external audit preparation.
- Collaborate with Financial Managers and other team members to successfully execute various accounting tasks.
- Comply with the requirements of the quality management system.
Requirements and skills
- Attentive to detail.
- Sound accounting knowledge.
- Confidentiality
- Handle pressure.
- Thoroughness
- Pays attention to detail, displays a high level of integrity, and is deadline-driven
- Excellent organisational and planning skills with the ability to prioritize time and work effectively.
- Can communicate within the team and contribute to the overall success of the team.
- Adaptable as this is a constantly changing environment.
- Experience 5 years+ preferred
- Our ideal candidate has a minimum matric and a tertiary education in Bookkeeping or Finance. Salary Budget – Market-Related Term: 6 Months.
Duties and Responsibilities
General Journal Entries:
- Raising monthly accruals
- Processing Depreciation
- Salaries journal
- Credit note provision
- Bad debt provisions
- all general ledger journals in preparation for management accounts
Accounts Receivable: (All Entities)
- Provide management with a weekly listing of ship files outstanding by Voyage Statement Status
- Provide Management with a Monthly Customer Age analysis
- Unapplied payments report – Customers
- Maintenance of Clearing Accounts
- Pe Transactional data – preparation
- Related party trading accounts
- Intercompany trading accounts
Accounts Payable: (All Entities)
- Processing of foreign vendor invoices including the assignment of charge items
- To ensure that the rate of exchange is aligned with the incoterms as described
- Foreign vendor creation
- Releasing of purchase orders (rounding, cents adj)
- Provide Management with Monthly Vendor Age analysis
- Unapplied payments report – Vendors
- Purchase Order Maintenance
- Purchase Order Approval
- Releasing of purchase orders (rounding, cents adjustment)
- ROE Request from buyers
General
- Credit Card and Fleet Card Import Template
- Manage General Ledger reconciliations including maintenance ledgers
- Performing periodic financial analyses to detect and resolve problems.
- Prepare working paper file for internal and external audits and review by management
- Prepare balance sheet reconciliations – monthly
- Prepare income statement reconciliations – monthly
- Ensure that all control accounts are reconciled to sub-ledgers
- Including Accounts receivable, Accounts Payable, Cash and Bank Accounts, Inventory
- Preparation of the VAT 201 for submission month for all related entities
- Preparation of the EMP201 and EMP501 for submission on e-filing and easyfile
- Tax and VAT compliance – SARS Correspondence
- Assist with Provisional Tax calculations and submission
- Facilitating the Monthly Invoice Processing
- Ensure that all operating expenses are accounted for and reconciled through vendor ledgers
- Stock Valuations and Stock Adjustments
Fixed Assets: (All Entities)
- Maintenance of the fixed asset and tax asset registers for all entities
- Ensure that all assets are accounted for both with NAV and in Excel
- Update additions, disposals, and scrapping with the FAR’s
Reconciliation of historical entries on Microsoft Dynamics:
- Ability to identify errors.
- Investigating reconciling items and driving resolution with the Financial Manager and Financial Accountant.
- Reconciling unmatched payments to uncaptured invoices and credit notes
- General ledger reconciliations
- Analytical evaluation of vendor accounts against payments made.
Structure: 6 month contract
R 20 000 CTC per month