Senior Accountant (Cape Town CBD) at BDO South Africa

Job specifications:

• Responsibility for portfolio of clients (Individuals, Trust, Companies and Close Corporations)
• Processing of all accounting, cashbooks, suppliers invoices, sales invoices, payroll journals and other relevant journals are captured in the accounting records of the clients on a real time basis
• Familiarity with digital platforms that integrate with cloud-based accounting packages
• Performing health checks on the integration between operating systems and financial data and ensuring all reports/information are reflected in the accounting records of an entity
• Ability to perform month end checks, ensuring all balance sheet reconciliations are performed and all agreed to external monthly support
• Provide support and direction to your team, if any, of intermediate and junior accounts
• Be ultimately responsible for ensuring all support to trial balance is maintained
• Preparation of monthly management accounts
• Processing monthly general journals
• Monthly reconciliation of expenses 
• Finalisation of monthly accounts
• Responsible for facing clients and presenting management accounts to them wherein you showcase your accounting technical ability
• Be the Outsourced Financial Manager to your clients ensuring that all necessary areas of compliance are dealt with
• Preparation and submission of statutory returns (VAT 201, EMP 201, EMP501 and return of earnings

Requirements
Additional competencies:

• Compile Annual financial statements in terms of IFRS for SMEs
• Perform the following engagements Compilation Engagements in terms of ISRS 4410 Independent Review Engagements in terms of ISRE 2400 Accounting Officer Engagements in terms of Close Corporations Act
• Ensuring that proper planning is performed before execution
• Ensuring BDO SOPs are followed at all times 
• Reviewing working paper files performed by your team
• Proposing journals to client
• Communicating with clients and making engagement arrangements, discuss engagement results
• Performing tax computations for companies, close corporations and trusts (including SBC's, special allowances (s12C, S12E, etc.))

Skillset required

• Managing WIP and budgets on engagements 
• Updating manager and partner on progress of engagements 
• Mentoring junior & intermediary staff both on the job and general
• Assist other staff members where needed 
• Attending to any other matters arising, such as tax queries etc in collaboration with other departments within the organisation
• Outsourced assignments when needed 
• Seek opportunities to grow department and client base
• Other duties as may be required in line with the position   

Skills requirements:  

• BCom Financial Accounting and Tax as majors (preferred Hons. BCom accounting but not a requirement) 
• Competed SAIPA or SAICA articles preferred 
• Working knowledge of most commonly used accounting packages (for reporting purposes and ad-hoc processing) 
• Detailed knowledge of cloud-based accounting platforms

Role requirements:

• Ability to lead a team 
• Work in a team and independently 
• Good communication skills, internal and external, both written and verbal 
• Good IT skills to grow the digitisation process within BDO
• Ability to travel