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ACCOUNTANT
(H5625A EG ACC)
Overview
Reference
H5625A EG ACC
Salary
ZAR/month
Job Location
- South Africa -- Tshwane Metro -- Pretoria
Job Type
Permanent
Posted
20 October 2025
Closing date
07 Nov 2025 07:22
Our client within the financial sector requires the duties of an accountant. Your:
Qualification:
- Accounting Degree (BCom or BCompt (Acc));
- Completed articles and 3 years’ experience in accounting function or;
- 10 year experience in accounting
will enable you to do the following duties:
Procurement and suppliers:
- Responsible for reviewing of primary source documents;
- Responsible for ensuring adherence to the Company's policies, procedures, budget limits and Levels of Authority regarding goods and services procured;
- Responsible for completing "checks" on completeness of supporting documentation maintained;
- Responsible for ensuring that supplier payment terms are monitored and enforced.
General accounting records and reconciliations:
- Reviews cash books and bank reconciliations;
- Reviews supplier reconciliations;
- Reviews the fixed asset registers;
- Processes non-routine/complex journal entries and reviews journal entries posted by bookkeeper;
- Prepares balance sheet reconciliation schedules for account balances and reviews schedules prepared by bookkeeper and to ensure that the balance sheet is appropriately reconciled;
- Primarily responsible for the validity, accuracy and completeness of transactions processed in the accounting records in a consistent manner;
- Responsible for the accuracy and completeness of intercompany and related party transactions and balances confirmed on intercompany transaction schedules and confirmations;
- Responsible for preparing calculations where required of amounts recognised in the accounting records;
- Prepares/reviews Payroll information with supporting documentation;
- Reviews instruction received in relation to specific entity and ensures instruction is relevant, accurate and understood before actioning;
- Prepares/Reviews the age analysis for customer and suppliers to ensure validity, accuracy and completeness and follows up variances timeously.
Management information:
- Responsible for preparing accurate management accounts, including the update of forecasts, monthly cash flow and all supporting schedules timeously;
- Responsible for preparing an accurate budget, including the update of forecasts and all supporting schedules timeously;
- Prepares and maintains all other management information requested by the executive management team;
- Develops management information reporting templates.
Sales function:
- Prepares and maintains calculations for revenue generated (including supporting documentation);
- Performs checks on inputs used for system generated revenue calculations to approved sources (agreements etc);
- Responsible for the collection of outstanding amounts due from customers;
- Updates and maintains summaries of Assets Under including movements.
Treasury and financial soundness:
- Reviews functions performed by the bookkeeper;
- Takes ownership of the validity, accuracy and completeness of the weekly and long-term cash flow preparation in line with the required timelines;
- Prepares calculations to monitor financial soundness requirements for current and future periods (liquidity, cash holdings, CAR & solvency);
- May be required to be a releaser of payments and beneficiaries on the banking platform.
Taxation:
- Prepares the VAT reconciliation and working papers including reasonability of VAT declared;
- Maintains reconciliation of balances owing to(by) SARS for all balances due;
- Prepares the tax computation for monthly reporting and the annual financial statements;
- Prepared DWT returns for submission;
- Ensures that all audit queries are addressed timely and that valid tax clearance is maintained at all times;
- Ensures that payment for all tax types are paid within the prescribed timeframes.
Audit and year-end:
- Primarily responsible for providing all information to the auditors and Group management timeously;
- Preparation of annual financial statements.
Budgets:
- Preparation of yearly budgets for allocated entities;
- Assist in the preparation of support area budgets.
Special projects:
- Is primarily responsible for the execution and day-to-day monitoring of the project.
Strategic and other areas:
- Participates in meetings;
- More detailed to complex communications required;
- Decision making requires thorough analysis of best practice and research;
- Subject matter knowledge is more detailed;
- Collaborates and provides feedback for consideration of policies and strategy;
- Limited negotiation with peers and subordinates;
- Presents/trains peers and subordinates.
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