Assistant Accountant - Southern Suburbs at CA Financial Appointments

Job Description

• Exceptional opportunity available for a Junior Accountant to join a dynamic and professional investment team's finance team as their Assistant Accountant. Work closely with the Senior Accountant in the team.

Responsibilities:

• Monthly bank statement processing and reconciliations (including credit cards)
• Cash-flow monitoring and management
• Assisting with client fee calculations in terms of signed mandates and/or SLAs
• Maintaining fee schedules that agree to the general ledger
• Capturing of supplier invoices and maintaining monthly supplier reconciliations
• Maintaining expense schedules that agree to the general ledger
• Management of accounts payable and accounts receivable aging and following up where necessary
• Calculating monthly Capital Adequacy Requirements
• Ensuring that relevant SOPS are documented and maintained
• New supplier and invoice capturing on Acumatica
• Cross-training and knowledge sharing across the greater finance team
• Continual improvement of controls and processes to streamline, reduce risk, identify threats and opportunities and increase efficiency
• Monthly reconciliation and settlement of intercompany balances
• Adhere to monthly, quarterly, and annual Group reporting requirements
• Co-operate with any internal audit requests and implement suggested changes where applicable
• Self-review the accuracy and completeness of monthly management accounts and processes

Requirements:

• Desired qualifications - BCom Accounting / Hons Accounting / CIMA / SAIPA
• Minimum 1-2 years’ experience gained as an Accountant
• Exposure to Financial Services preferable (Fund Services, Unit Trusts, Investment Management)
• Able to work on various IT systems (advanced Excel skills would be an advantage)
• Exposure to Accounting systems