Assistant Accountant - Century City, Cape Town at Spur Corporation

Educational

• Accounting Diploma or equivalent

Skills

• Good MS Excel skills
• Analytical and problem solving skills
• Written and verbal communication
• Excellent attention to detail

Knowledge and experience

• At least two years’ experience in a similar role
• Good ability to understand transactional processing
• Strong bookkeeping skills
• Good systems and financial controls (policies and processes) knowledge

Duties and Responsibilities

Financial reconciliation and recording

• Generate Operational expense transactions and Journal Entries to ensure accuracy and compliance in preparation of Balance Sheet Reconciliations (local and International).
• Receiving and validating documentary proof of expenses (cash and credit card claims)
• Capturing of local and International operational expenses
• Processing of all journal entries and requests - travel, credit cards and mobile phones and cash
• Examine and analyse Income statements and compare balances with General Ledger and accounting records.
• Check and verify meal voucher balances in accordance with sales and stock balances for journal processing and system updates.

Governance, systems and control environment

• Completion of monthly balance sheet reconciliation relating to unbudgeted operating expenses
• Maintain company chart of accounts for operating expenses

Fixed Assets

• Print of trial balance - repairs and maintenance - validation of correct allocation of cost
• Request invoices and documentary support - prepare reconciliation with recommendation on action.
• Prepare journals approved - moving cost to correct GL and capture fixed assets as and when required.
• Capitalize fixed assets.
• Constantly check balances on trial balance
• Run and post depreciation.
• Run reports for additions, disposals, fixed asset register - end of period.
• Maintain fixed asset register

Routine transactions

• Processing of routine (including prepayment and accruals) and correcting journal entries for all advertising accounts, and other entities as required
• Review all journal entries processed by Assistant Accountant (all entities)

Ad hoc

• Assist Accounts Services Manager with month-end processes
• Assist processing team in other financial-related tasks