Junior Accountant

We’re on the lookout for an ambitious Junior Accountant who is eager to learn, grow, and contribute to a high-performing finance team. If you’re detail-oriented, numbers driven and excited about building a strong career in accounting, this could be the perfect next step for you.

So, what will you do?

• Assist the Financial Accountant in:
• Gathering financial data to ensure that all financial transactions are valid, accurate and complete on a monthly basis.
• Ensuring compliance with IFRS, SARS, CIPC and other relevant legislation/regulations.
• Ensuring accurate financial processing in preparation of monthly Trial Balance.
• Ensuring accuracy, existence & completeness of fixed asset register and cash book.  

In addition to the above, you will:

Fixed Asset Register:

• Process all additions on a monthly basis.
• Process disposals on a monthly basis.
• Run depreciation and amortisation for month end.
• Ensure fixed asset register reconciles to GL and to physical assets on hand
• Ensure tax register is updated monthly.
• Ensure asset card details are accurate at all times
• Physical tagging of assets upon import into Fixed Asset Register.

Cashbook:

• Ensure all cashbooks are processed daily/weekly.
• Bank reconciliations performed weekly with no variances.
• Accuracy of cashbook allocations.
• Unallocated payments or receipts resolved timeously.

Reconciliation:

• Prepare all balance sheet reconciliations for Financial Accountant review.
• Ensure reconciling items are resolved timeously.

Journal Entries:

• Assist Financial Accountant to prepare certain journal entries timeously for Finance Operations Manager review to ensure month end close deadlines are achieved.

Budgeting & Forecasting:

• Assist Financial Accountant & FP&A Analyst in balance sheet and working capital budget (with an emphasis on cashflow forecasting).

Annual Auditing:

• Assist in the annual audit process.
• Provide supporting documents requested by external auditors timeously.

Value Added Tax:

• Assist Financial Accountant in calculating accurate output and input tax values based on Value Added Tax Act.
• Assist Financial Accountant in preparing VAT reconciliation to GL.