Senior Accountant - Newly Qualified SAIPA Professional

As Senior Accountant, you will take responsibility for a varied portfolio of clients, overseeing their monthly accounting and compliance requirements while ensuring accurate and timely financial information. You will work closely with clients and colleagues across the practice and will have the opportunity to further develop your technical accounting, tax, client management and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

Supervise the monthly accounting function and ensure client work is completed accurately and on time; Prepare and review monthly management accounts; Ensure timely submission of statutory returns and compliance requirements; Prepare and review Annual Financial Statements in accordance with IFRS for SMEs; Provide clients with accounting and software support; Deal directly with clients and manage day-to-day correspondence and queries; Manage, mentor and train junior accounting staff and SAIPA trainees; Review work for accuracy, completeness and compliance; Identify opportunities to improve processes and efficiencies within the accounting function; Take ownership of deadlines and deliverables across your client portfolio

Requirements

Completed SAIPA articles; Previous experience in a similar accounting practice environment; Strong technical knowledge of VAT; Sound knowledge of company and individual taxation; Experience preparing and/or reviewing Annual Financial Statements; Experience with monthly accounting and management accounts; Pastel Partner experience; Sage One experience; Caseware knowledge; Highly computer literate, particularly in Outlook, Word and Excel; Cape Town based; Own reliable transport; Valid South African driver's licence; Comfortable working in an office-based environment; Confident and comfortable leading junior staff; Self-motivated and able to work independently; Accountable and reliable when managing deadlines; Highly organised and detail-oriented; Comfortable communicating directly with clients; Professional, approachable and able to build strong working relationships; Able to work effectively under pressure without compromising accuracy; Positive and willing to take ownership rather than wait to be instructed

Nice to have

Experience with Xero; Additional exposure to accounting software and cloud-based systems

Benefits

Opportunity to join an established professional practice; move beyond the trainee environment; take genuine ownership of client relationships and accounting portfolios; exposure to a varied client base; develop technical and commercial accounting skills; opportunity to grow into greater responsibility within the practice