Financial Accountant - Johannesburg, South Africa - Imizizi

Description

We require the service of a Financial Accountant, with 3 - 5 years experience in a Financial Management or Financial Controller position.
This role is responsible for running the financial and tax activities of the business. This includes all the finance, payroll, procurement, tax related tasks as well as supporting admin tasks to ensure that all activities are completed within the required processes, procedures, standards and legislation. The Financial Accountant will work closely with the Senior Accountant, to ensure financial policies are developed and adhered to, accounting records are kept up to date and all report and reconciliation requirements have been met. An individual who is adaptive, willing to learn and can handle pressure will be most suitable for our environment.

Financial Administration
To support and administer all finance and accounting requirements of the business. Acts as a liaison between third-party accountants and business needs. This includes:

• Timeous capturing of customer invoices
• Management of invoices and debtors
• Creditor's payments and reconciliation
• Management of cashbook and reconciliation of bank transactions
• Reconciliation of balance sheet accounts
• Processing monthly journals
• Monthly Vat and PAYE submissions

Payroll Admin and Management
To oversee and process internal and external payroll requirements aligned to South African Legislation. This includes timesheet administration, tax compliance and employee query management. To oversee and administer employee benefits portfolio for internal and external employees:

• Funeral policy benefits
• Medical aid benefits, including adjustments
• Maintaining the contractor savings report ie updating all withdrawals, interest and payments.
• Individual tax structuring
• Process reimbursements, refunds and claims

Clients:

• Manage the payroll calendar for clients
• Process tax invoices according to client agreements and rates
• Process quotes, POs and tax invoices

Debtors and Creditors:
Debtors

• Capturing customer invoices
• Reconciling customer billable hours to client reports (customer invoice report)
• Allocating customer payments to customer (debtors) account

Suppliers:

• Capturing supplier invoices
• Capturing supplier adjustments
• Allocating supplier payments
• Capturing sundry suppliers
• Saving all invoices on sharenet

Cashbook:

• Uploading banks
• Allocating bank transactions to correct expenses, customers or suppliers
• Following up on queries for unknown payment

Referral Program
To monitor emails from the program, keep payments records and administrate the data base such as:

• Respond to referral emails daily.
• Add CV information to existing database
• Tracking successful/unsuccessful referrals with the recruitment team
• Compile referral forms for payment
• Ensure referral rewards are processed during payroll

BBBEE Administration
To administrate and support the committee with BBBEE activities, reporting and communication requirements as follows:

• Affidavits (Ensure suppliers affidavits that are on file are up to date)
• Manage Preferential procurement database
• Manage Skills development portfolio
• Work closely with HR to ensure validity of training registers and payments
• Calculate financials for verification (TMPS, Skills Development)
• Involved in the BBBEE audit/ verification process
• Enterprise and Supplier development
• Involved on the ESD committee to manage the program
• Prepare ED and SD agreements
• Social Economic Development
• Assist with identifying suitable NGO
• Establish a relationship.
• Do a needs analysis.
• Process payments

If you are a motivated individual with the necessary qualifications and experience, we invite you to submit your CV. Please note that if you do not receive a response from us within 2 weeks, your application was not successful.