Financial and Cost Accountant at Adams & Adams

Duties and responsibilities

Financial Systems Management

• Oversee the financial system processes related to billing and revenue recognition, ensuring timely and accurate closure of billing cycles.
• Maintain and update financial structures such as cost centres and profit centres to support effective reporting and analysis.
• Manage the chart of accounts to ensure it remains consistent, accurate, and aligned with organizational reporting requirements and financial controls.
• Monitor system to ensure all transactions are posted daily.

Management & Financial Reporting

• Prepare complete sets of monthly management accounts with supporting schedules.
• Compile and maintain month-end reconciliation files.
• Prepare the monthly fees report, ensuring accurate billing and promptly identifying any variances or discrepancies.
• Produce ad hoc financial and operational reports to support decision-making.
• Review allocation of monthly actuals versus budget into support service templates and prepare variance analyses.
• Review and analyse management accounts for subsidiary entities.

Audit and Year-End Reporting

• Prepare audit files and supporting documentation for external auditors.
• Coordinate the collection and submission of audit-related information across departments.
• Assist in the preparation and review of annual financial statements in accordance with applicable standards.

Regulatory Compliance

• Prepare and submit monthly VAT returns and respond to related audits.
• Complete and submit STATSSA reports as required.
• Generate and present BBBEE management reports.

Budgeting and Financial Planning

• Assist in the development and consolidation of the annual budget.
• Monitor and update income statement budget rollouts.
• Conduct weekly petty cash counts and approve reconciliations.

Operational and Ad Hoc Duties

• Act as Commissioner of Oaths for internal documentation.
• Assist with screening and onboarding of new AP vendors; maintain and update vendor records.
• Submit SARS e-filing for transfer duty payments.

 Qualifications and Experience

• BCom Accounting or equivalent postgraduate qualification such as SAICA/ACCA/SAIPA.
• Completed articles.
• Minimum of 8 years' experience in financial cost accounting, preferably within a legal or professional services firm