Accountant

About the position

Accountant - Pretoria - JSE listed company

Minimum Requirements

• B Com Accounting / Financial / Related with Accounting as major.
• Completed Articles (SAICA or SAIPA).
• Experience in management accounting, i.e., budgeting, monthly management accounts, forecasting.
• Sound Management Accounting abilities e.g., budgeting, monthly management accounts, forecasting, accruals, and prepayments.
• Experience with drafting financial statements required.

Overview of duties

• Consult with all relevant departments in order to compile a budget.
• Analyze the budgets to ensure that they are complete and reasonable in comparison to prior or current years.
• Ensure that the budget is in the correct format and uploaded correctly.
• Perform an accounting function by processing journal entries and compiling monthly management packs
• Review the entire General Ledger for each property for completeness and accuracy.
• Perform month and year-end procedures, e.g., raise accruals and prepayments, provide for depreciation/amortization, bad debts provisions etc.
• Understand and prepare VAT apportionment journals.
• Reconcile general ledger accounts to supporting schedules.
• Obtain reasons for variances between the budgets and actuals from relevant stakeholders.
• Updating of monthly budget forecast.
• Prepare and present monthly stakeholder packs.
• Maintain the monthly working papers where applicable.
• Calculate the current and the deferred tax calculation, when required
• Draft financial statements using Caseware/Draftworx (annually).
• Review the financial statements for accuracy.
• Assist in generating the relevant reports to enable disclosures in the financial statements/integrated report.
• Prepare the working papers required for the annual audit.
• Attend to Auditor's questions and queries during the audit.
• Correction of opening balances after audited financial journals have been done.
• Drafting of annual financial statements.
• Attend to all taxes and VAT requirements during the year
• Complete calculations of provisional taxes.
• Submit the tax returns for provisional taxes.
• Complete the final tax return and make the necessary payments.
• Attend to all tax queries received from SARS within the prescribed timelines.
• Prepare and submit monthly VAT returns.

Desired Skills:

• accounting