Accountant at Sentera Business Partners (Pty) Ltd

Job description

Sentera Business Partners (www.sentera.co.za) offers outsourced accounting, tax and payroll services to SME’s. This is a great opportunity for a SME accountant to work for a small but rapidly expanding business such as ours.

At Sentera, we offer a fast-paced and inspiring work environment where each individual is integral to our success. This position includes a dynamic range of accounting and tax work, as well as the opportunity to learn and grow with the latest cloud accounting and related technologies. Our ideal team member communicates well with clients and is flexible, resourceful and tech-savvy. Sound like you?

To be successful in this role you will be able to work to strict deadlines and enjoy contributing to a fun, professional working environment. You will be able to take ownership of this role and become passionate about teamwork and creating a pleasant corporate culture – our team loves coming to work every day.

Your work would entail servicing a portfolio of SME clients, with all related services as well as being able to add your value to each of these clients.

Responsibilities/Job requirements

• Assist with ad-hoc consulting and clean up projects on new clients
• Ensure client’s accounts are kept up to date and accurate
• Prepare monthly management accounts
• Dealing with SARS queries
• Tax planning
• Compilation of Annual Financial Statements
• Assist clients with budgeting and forecasting
• Interacting with clients
• Make pro-active recommendations to our clients to help them grow their businesses
• Contribute to an innovative culture by constantly questioning processes and by suggesting/implementing new ideas (for us and for our clients)

Qualifications and Requirements

• SAICA or SAIPA articles
• Advanced computer literacy (Experience with Xero will be an advantage)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• 2+ years experience in a full accounting function
• Experience in dealing with SARS
• Deadline management
• Attention to detail