Accountant - Midrand at Servest SA

Job Context    

• Servest Office Services ,the division of Servest Pty Ltd seeks an Accountant  to join their team in their Johannesburg Office. In this role, you will be responsible for the full accounting function including, but not limited to prepare, examine, and analyse accounting records, financial statements, and other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards . The successful incumbent will be someone who is driven, experienced and passionate about accounting and building strong client relationships.

Minimum Requirements    

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting / National Diploma with Accounting as a major.
• 5+ years of bookkeeping or accounting experience preferred.
• Thorough knowledge of accounting.
• Mathematical skills a must.
• Superior verbal and written communication skills.
• Sufficient interpersonal skills and leadership skills.

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Assists in preparation of monthly management report and accompanying schedules, worksheets and narratives, including “Budget vs. Actual” variance reports. Assist in providing follow-up and documentation of significant variances.
• Assist with the budget process, loading budgets on the various systems.
• Analyse budgets, preparing periodic reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs.
• Survey operations to ascertain accounting needs and to recommend, develop, and maintain solutions to business and financial problems.
• Compliance to statutory and IFRS requirements
• Prepare / Review journals
• Review monthly Pro-Card expenditure,
• Prepare monthly balance sheet reconciliations for every balance sheet account.
• Ensure Trial balance is accurate and correct at each month end.
• Maintain up to date and accurate fixed assets register.
• Investigate and interrogate the ledgers checking for data errors, making sure accruals were correctly done and make sure all the necessary corrections were done.
• Assist with the year-end audit and internal audits where required.
• Adhere to all internal deadlines set out by Corporate and/or management with regards to all KPA's.
• Prepare / review monthly VAT return and perform and balance reconciliation and ensure payment is made by the due date.
• Ensure compliance to Group Policies and Procedures.
• Assist FD on ad-hoc projects and other functions/reports required.
• Intercompany transactions / balances management – ensure that intercompany accounts and balances are reconciled at each month end period prior to the flash reports being prepared.
• Prepare / review daily cash collections update report.
• Review creditors recons and ensure timely payment of suppliers

Closing Date    
2023/08/01