Assistant Accountant - Cape Town at AVI Limited

Job Specification:

Key Performance Areas:

HR Financial Functions:

• Group payroll reconciliation and payment preparation including Exco sign off
• Compiling HR clearing accounts reconciliation
• Analyse Leave pay & annual bonus summaries and ensure accurate accounting thereof
• Staff debtors & Bursaries management
• Process journal entries on a monthly basis
• Analyse Group HR overheads on a monthly basis to ensure accuracy and completeness of reporting and providing correcting entries where necessary.
• Liaise with the HR business partners in all I&J business units as well as AVI Payroll regarding any issues identified within reporting.

General Ledger Functions:

• Review of cost center postings and allocating expenses to their correct cost center on a monthly basis
• Preparing Foreign travel schedule monthly for provisional tax comps
• Processing journal entries to account for cell phone expenses and cross charges between entities
• Ensuring process compliance when analysing reconciliations
• Processing staff claims and reimbursements
• Assisting with the administration of budgets and forecasts and capturing figures on SAP

Reporting:

• Assist with month end reporting and processing related entries thereof before month end close

Qualifications:

• Matric
• Bcom degree or similar
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a similar role

Experience:

• Good Accounting skills: throrough understanding
• Computer Literacy: excel, word, SAP
• Working knowledge of SAP advantageous

COMPETENCIES

• Attention to detail
• Good analytical and numeric skills
• strong reconciliation ability
• initiative
• Good communication skills
• good Excel skills
• Ability to work under pressure
• Assertiveness