Senior Accountant

Reporting to: Group Accountant

Job Purpose: The Senior Accounting and supervision of all accounting processes

Location: Woodstock, Cape Town

Key Performance Areas:

Under the management /direction of the Group Accountant, the Senior Accountant will have the following responsibilities (including but not limited to):

Revenue

• Ensuring that all Revenue accruals in the current month are invoiced within the next month.
• Accrual schedule is updated with the comparative actual numbers for comparative purposes
• Revenue processing.
• GL checks to ensure that the revenue processed timeously within the month.

AR:

• Agree the AR control account to Trade receivables TB balance.
• Ensuring no error batches.
• Collections from debtors is vital. Timeous responses requests from clients.

Payover Process:

• Timeous processing of the payovers
• Understanding client timeframes and deadlines
• Follow up on the invoicing relating to the invoicing.
• Clear communication between the customer and Nimble.

• Comfortable and willing to be proactive on the various portals used by clients to submit collections and invoices.

Creditors:
Invoicing Checks:

• PO's tie up to the invoice references.
• The invoices have been approved and authorised.
• Follow up on recurring invoices if outstanding.
• Monthly creditor recons are checks:
• Checks to ensure all AP reconciled to the supplier statement
• All creditor recons checks must completed by the 25th off the month
• Completeness check must be done to ensure that all creditors have been prepared and authorised for payment.

AP Aging’s

• All payments are allocated within the current month
• All queries, credit notes outstanding invoices are followed up timeously

Cashbook

• Checks that all the cashbook recons agree to bank statement and TB
• All clearing accounts for GL banks clear to nil
• Unposted batches as per accpac are checked and resolved.

Fixed Assets:

• Additions are processed timeously on a monthly basis.
• Depreciation processed monthly.
• FAR schedules updated monthly.

Expense Accruals

• Processing of expense accruals
• Telco accrual schedule updated
• Ensuring that invoices received within the next month and processing of invoices are done timeously.

Payroll Reconciliations

• Reconciliations of all the GL expense to payroll.
• Variances are identified. These variances are corrected or explained
• Reconciliations of all the payroll control accounts.

Vat & Tax

• Preparations of VAT reconciliations
• VAT submission on E-filing.
• Provisional tax submissions.
• Tax clearance applications and montioring

Requirements:

• Bcom or 3 years Technical Degree Accounting
• At least 3 years’ experience to trial balance
• Advanced competency in MS Excel
• Accpac experience is advantage
• Overtime is required at various times and specifically at month end
• Keen attention to detail and high level of accuracy
• Analytical thinker and problem solver
• Proactive, responsive and deadline driven
• Team player

Remuneration Structure:

• A basic salary
• Benefits at the full cost to the Employer;
• Funeral Cover (at the full cost of the employer)
• Life Cover (at the full cost of the Employer)
• Disability Cover (at the full cost of the Employer)
• Medical Cover (at the full cost of the employer , after successful completion of the probation period)

Working Hours:

You will be required to work a maximum of 45 hours per week.

Monday to Friday: You will be required to work from 08:00am - 17:00pm.

This appointment will be made in line with the Nimble Group Employment Equity plan.