Accounting Consultant at Outsourced CFO

Job Description

• As an Accounting Consultant, your role is to provide comprehensive client service and support while ensuring compliance with accounting standards and tax regulations. You will be responsible for processing various financial transactions, reviewing the work of trainees, and compiling accurate financial statements and management reports. Additionally, you will engage with clients, build relationships, and assist in scoping their needs. Your role also includes providing training to junior staff members, contributing to client administration tasks, participating in planning and administrative activities, fostering a positive company culture, and staying updated with the latest industry trends.

Key Responsibilities;

Client Service

• Process bank statements, supplier and customer bills, fixed assets, and any other accounting responsibilities. Review of this work of trainees
• Compilation of Management Reports from monthly accounting records.
• Compilation of Annual Financial Statements for clients
• Preparation of working papers for independent review engagements under limited supervision
• Annual accounting is performed and reviewed monthly, to ensure that the balance sheet and income statement are accurate and ready for the compilation of the financial statements.
• Assistance with payroll tasks, including but not limited to, payroll processing, payroll reconciliations, EMP201, EMP501 and COIDA / WCA submissions and review of work done by trainees.
• Engaging with clients to build relationships, and assisting and scoping client needs. Assistance on this to juniors.

Client budget preparation.

• Providing Training
• Providing on the job training for Accounting Consultants, Junior Accounting and Trainees
• Presenting training to the cloud accounting team
• Client Admin
• Updating CRM with client details
• Client scoping according to scoping document
• Preparing client proposals under supervision
• Assisting with clients onboarding and offboarding

Planning and admin

• Preparation of agenda for monthly planning meetings with the POD Leader
• Timeous submission of Timesheets before COB on Fridays
• Ensure that all projects assigned to your portfolio are rolled out monthly, and that all tasks are signed off on a daily basis.
• Review of budgeted vs actual hours spent on clients

Requirements

• The ideal candidate for this position will hold an AGA(SA), SAIPA or CIMA qualification and have at least 2 years post articles experience within an accounting firm environment.

Characteristics of the ideal candidate:

• Planning & self-actualisation
• Attention to detail and problem solving
• Analytical thinking and reality testing
• Teamwork and independence
• Rule-folllowing
• Leadership