Junior Accountant - Cape Town, South Africa - Sagen Advisory

    Sagen Advisory
    Sagen Advisory Cape Town, South Africa

    Found in: Talent ZA C2 - 1 week ago

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    Full time
    Description

    Large and successful privately-owned group specializing in the design, manufacturing, installation, maintenance, and servicing of commercial and industrial refrigeration systems and equipment for the supermarket, food, petro-chemical, and agricultural industries is seeking to recruit and appoint a Junior Accountant to their offices, based in Cape Town.

    The ideal candidate must have a minimum of 3 years bookkeeping and accounting experience and a diploma, certificate or degree in accounting will be an advantage. SAIPA, SAICA or CIMA article experience will also be an advantage, and knowledge or experience with inventory will be a nice to have, though not a must have requirement. Industry experience in manufacturing, production, engineering or related will be seen as positive.

    This is an excellent career opportunity for a hard-working and ambitious candidate at a well-known, reputable and large group of companies with excellent medium-term opportunities for growth and progression. In this role you will be exposed to finance and operations, and will be suitable for a candidate who is ambitious, takes initiative and willing to roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty.

    Duties and Responsibilities:

    • Inventory management.
    • Manage and perform weekly stock takes.
    • Responsible for inventory accounting.
    • Assist with supply chain operations.
    • Inventory analysis, interpretation and capturing.
    • Comfortable with working with high volume of transactions.
    • Assist with monthly accounting to trial balance and general ledgers maintenance.
    • Assist with debtors processing, journals, payment allocations, reconciliations.
    • Assist with creditors processing bills, reconciliations, allocation of payments, preparation of weekly payments schedules.
    • Ensure weekly deadlines are met and entries are accurately and timeously captured in the general ledger.
    • Assist with the compilation of monthly management accounts.
    • Preparation of weekly reports.
    • Assist with timely preparation and submissions of VAT, PAYE calculations, reconciliations and payments.
    • Assist with maintenance of fixed asset register.
    • Assist with preparation of supporting schedules for audit and address audit queries.
    • Providing support to the accounting department.
    • Accounting-related filing.
    • Any other ad-hoc tasks as required by the Financial Manager.

    Qualifications and Experience:

    • Certificate, Diploma, Degree or similar qualification in accounting or bookkeeping will be an advantage.
    • 3+ years' bookkeeping and accounting experience.
    • ERP Accounting system experience a benefit. Netsuite, Pastel, Sage or similar accounting system experience.
    • Microsoft Excel – intermediate to advanced level.
    • Computer literate - good working knowledge of Microsoft Office package.
    • Aptitude in working with figures is essential.

    Remuneration:

    • R240,000 to R360,000 pa, depending on experience.