Portfolio Accountant
The Focus Group
- R3,000 - R3,700 per month
- Permanent Management EE position
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Johannesburg
- Posted 02 Jun 2025 by The Focus Group
- Expires in 32 days
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Job 2612474
About the position
Purpose of the Job:
Maintain accurate and complete general ledgers with responsibility for related accounting functions and staff where necessary.
Key Responsibilities:
General Accounting:
- Ensure accurate and complete general ledgers.
- Reconcile general ledger accounts monthly and clear reconciling items promptly.
- Review bank reconciliations monthly.
- Reconcile and confirm intercompany loan accounts.
- Maintain the Fixed Asset Register, including allocation, addition of fixed assets, monthly depreciation, and reconciliation to the general ledger.
- Prepare and submit monthly VAT returns via e-filing by the 25th of each month.
- Process tenant deposit refunds and appropriations.
- Calculate collection commission per the rent roll.
- Reconcile and clear the Debtors Clearing account regularly.
- Update and distribute the monthly cut-off schedule.
- Identify depreciable assets from Capex and Tenant Installation accounts.
- Prepare monthly journals, including pro rata allocations of interest and bank charges, net income distributions, and capex claims.
- Prepare monthly financial packs for external clients and balance cash flow documents and supporting schedules.
- Prepare weekly cash flow statements and control expenditure and cash flow.
- Review ledgers and identify monthly accruals.
- Ensure adherence to controls and procedures, identifying and implementing additional controls as needed.
- Provide accounting and administrative assistance as required.
- Assist property managers with finance-related issues for the property portfolio under management.
- Prepare preliminary financial statements and advise property managers when ready.
- Review preliminary financial statements per building and ensure recurring entries are captured.
- Prepare financial statements in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
Skills and Competencies:
- Strong communication skills (both written and verbal).
- Innovative thinking and ability to follow processes.
- Dynamic and enthusiastic.
- Professional interaction with individuals at all levels.
- Decision-making ability.
- Competent time management skills.
- Professional attitude, capability, and personal initiative.
- Ability to work independently.
- Analytical mind with a keen eye for detail.
Qualifications and Experience:
Qualifications:
- Matric (Must).
- BCom Honours or a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in accounting.
- SAICA Articles plus 2 years post-articles in an accounting or related role.
Experience:
- 3-5 years’ relevant experience as an Accountant.
- Audit experience is an added advantage.
- Experience in preparing financial statements in accordance with IFRS.
- Extensive knowledge of computer skills, including Microsoft Word, Excel, accounting software, and MS Office.
Desired Skills:
- Accounting
- Auditing
- IFRS
- MDA Accounting
- Microsoft Office
The Focus Group
About the agency
THE FOCUS GROUP was formed in 1989 and has offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town. We are a full service Human Resource Consulting Company, encompassing Black Empowerment joint venture partner Focus Kamoso, and offering a comprehensive range of integrated recruitment, assessment, employee relations, training and development, HR, employee benefit and payroll management services to a wide range of South African, African and international business organisations.
Our commitment is to enter into a partnership with you, the Client, which adds value to your business and profit to your bottom line, by tailoring solutions that assist you to
• Source, assess and select the best possible human resources.
• Design and implement competency based training programmes, which ensure that your employees are capable of delivering the service excellence that your clients demand, and the competitive edge which you seek to maintain.
• Create a business environment in which you manage change to your advantage and an organisational climate that allows your team to perform to its maximum potential.
• Design employee benefit and remuneration structures which ensure that your people take ownership of your business and which protect you against losing your most valuable resource to your competition.
• Implement an employee relations framework that promotes workplace harmony and minimises the occurrence of disruptive legal disputes.
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