About the position
SENIOR ACCOUNTANT
Location: Tzaneen, Limpopo
NON-NEGOTIABLE REQUIREMENTS:
- BCom with completed Articles or equivalent Accounting degree.
- 5–10 years of relevant experience in accounting or finance.
- Proficiency in accounting software, MS Word, Excel, and e-mail.
ROLE OVERVIEW:
The Senior Accountant oversees the accounting function, ensuring accurate financial reporting, statutory compliance, and effective cash flow management.
The role includes preparing management accounts, budgets, and statutory returns, while providing leadership and financial support to management and the accounting team.
Minimum requirements:
- BCom with completed Articles or equivalent Accounting degree.
- 5–10 years of relevant experience in accounting or finance.
- Proficiency in accounting software, MS Word, Excel, and e-mail.
- Understanding of accepted accounting practices and principles.
- Understanding of economic principles.
- Familiarity with auditing practices and principles.
- Awareness of applicable laws, codes, and regulations.
- Experience with relevant computer applications and the banking system.
- Ability to manage cash flow effectively.
Personality Traits:
- Accountancy.
- Communication.
- Leadership.
- Problem-solving.
- Accuracy.
- Customer Focused.
- Work Under Pressure.
Duties and responsibilities:
- Ensure familiarisation, adherence, and compliance with all company policies and procedures within the accounting function.
- Compile monthly group management accounts.
- Produce business unit, divisional, departmental, and regional management accounts.
- Draft monthly group operational and analytical reports.
- Develop business unit, divisional, departmental, and regional operational reports.
- Assemble all other related reports.
- Receive all budgetary inputs.
- Consolidate into the total group budget.
- Perform all other related activities.
- Prepare Income Tax, PAYE, UIF, VAT, Workmen’s Compensation, and any other related returns in compliance with relevant standards and legislation.
- Interact with the Chief Financial Officer, Financial Manager, Accountant, and Credit Control.
- Develop and sustain a good working relationship with the accounting function.
- Offer assistance to subordinates regarding the finances of the organisation.
- Communicate effectively with management and staff at all levels within the organisation.
- Ensure compliance with relevant legislation and accounting policies.
- Manage, mentor, and coach subordinates and report and analyse significant developments to Senior Management.
- Plan cash to ensure all payments are supported to maintain operations and maximise business opportunities.
- Evaluate subordinate performance.
- Take responsibility for self-development by keeping abreast of new developments related to the area of responsibility.
- Maintain the daily cash planning and control process in terms of receipts, loading, and releasing payments.
- Provide daily cash flow reports to the CFO, Financial Manager, and management.
- Ensure financial records are maintained in compliance with accepted policies and procedures.
- Ensure all financial reporting deadlines are met through the timely recording of transactions in the company's ERP system.
- Assist with the preparation of financial management reports.
- Ensure accurate and timely monthly, quarterly, and year-end close.
- Establish and monitor the implementation and maintenance of accounting control procedures.
- Resolve accounting discrepancies and irregularities.
- Develop and maintain financial databases.
- Work with internal and external auditors on financial audits.
- Ensure accurate and appropriate recording and analysis of revenues and expenses.
- Maintain complete, accurate, and up-to-date files of working papers to support the figures recorded in the monthly management and year-end accounts, including month-end A/R and A/P balances, inventory listings, and ageing reports for all sub-ledgers.
Desired Skills:
- SAIPA
- SAICA
- accounting
- ERP systems
