Fresh Jobs at Bowmans (Law Firm)

Purpose:

• Responsible for keeping accurate, timeous and complete records of payable accounts and corporate travel accounts.  Management of supplier accounts by performing weekly and monthly reconciliations.

Experience and Qualifications:

• Senior Certificate with accounting as a subject
• Bookkeeping diploma preferable
• 2-3 years’ experience in a similar role within a professional services environment 

Key Accountabilities

Accounts payables (local and foreign)

• Process of business and client account invoices on 3E, in accordance with company policies and procedures
• Ensure all payment requests have the necessary authorisation and supported by appropriate documentation
• Perform reconciling of all vendors accounts to the vendor statements to ensure accuracy and resolve any discrepancies
• Attend to weekly and monthly payment cycles, by preparing payment batches and submitting to banking department for processing
• Generate and maintain monthly Accounts Payable Age Analysis reports, including commentary outstanding balances for review

Corporate Travel Accounts

• Capturing invoices received from travel agents on 3E
• Reconcile travel agent statements and ensure timeous payments
• Address and resolve account related queries with travel agents

Month End

• Assist with month end processes, including generation of month end Opex reports
• Update the monthly variance report pertaining to specific Business services department
• Assist with process monthly journal entries as and when required

Budget

• Assist in roll forward prior year budget template to create current year template
• Support HOD with providing additional information (detailed actuals and forecast figures) to assist with budget planning

Relationship Building

• Develop and maintain relationships with all levels of staff as a trusted resource.
• Maintain strong working relationships with and have open and transparent communication between all members of the team

Competencies

• Attention to Detail
• Decision Making
• Interactive Communication
• Problem-solving
• Relationship Building
• Financial Systems, Processes, and Technology
• Information Management
• Using Information Technology

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Purpose:

• Responsible for the management of the debtors’ book through collection of debt, minimizing bad debt, optimizing cash flow and management of Ebilling portals.

Experience and Qualifications:

• Senior certificate essential
• Credit management course preferable
• 3 to 5 years’ experience in a similar role in a professional services environment.

Key Accountabilities

Debtors Collections:

• Timely and effective collection of all client payments.
• Negotiate, implement and monitor re-payment plans within agreed mandates or as approved by attorneys/finance management.
• Allocation of daily receipts, investigate and resolve misallocations/unallocations
• Maintain a high and consistent individual agreed collection target.
• Monitor bad debts and identify clients for possible legal action. Present to fee earners for authorization and follow-up action.
• Supporting partners by managing all aspects of billing for assigned clients and matter.
• Reviewing matter set up and providing reporting for budgets, alternate fee arrangements and accrual request.
• Submitting new timekeeper approvals for ebilling clients and contacting clients regarding new matters.
• Reviewing cost entries for compliance and making Partners aware of any issues.
• Monitoring of e-billed submissions and assisting with resolution of any rejections.
• Monthly Upload of statements and invoices on the ebilling portals. (This must be done according to client specification)
• Manage the entire ebilling process.

Client Engagement:   

• Establish good relationships with clients
• Identify, investigate and resolve queries relating to outstanding invoices/ accounts.
• Maintain the highest level of confidentiality on client matters.
• Maintain a thorough knowledge of client terms and discount arrangements.

Relationship Building:

• Develop and maintain relationships with all levels of staff as a trusted resource.
• Maintain strong working relationships with and have open and transparent communication between all members of the team
• Demonstrate solid judgement and diplomacy when executing partner request.

General Administration:

• Provides accurate information to relevant stakeholders upon request (cash flow forecast, billing updates, recons, etc.)
• Share Billing guidelines with secretaries and Fee earners to ensure compliance.
• Support and assist internal stakeholders with client related queries
• Support partners on ebilling issues.

Competencies:

• Attention to Detail
• Interactive Communication
• Problem Solving
• Resilience
• Self Confidence
• Records and Information Management
• Advanced Excel.

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EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• Chartered Accountant (SA) or BCom (Accounting), with 1-3 years post articles experience within a tax practice
• Corporate, compliance and tax dispute resolution experience
• Multi-disciplinary tax experience, international tax experience and deferred tax experience would be an advantage
• High academic achiever, with proven numeracy and language skills
• Completion of a post graduate diploma or degree in taxation is a pre-requisite – if this is not already completed, it will be a condition of employment

JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Working as part of a team providing assistance to clients on a variety of matters within a specialised tax practice
• Preparing or reviewing tax calculations and tax returns
• Furnishing opinions and advice for clients on various tax issues, including legal and tax research
• Providing tax related input on transaction structures, including in a cross-border context
• Providing tax related drafting support and commentary on legal documents

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:

Initiative, enthusiasm and optimism

• Acting without prompting but aware of risks
• Takes action to achieve goals beyond what is required
• Optimistic in handling challenges and setting out for the best outcomes
• Genuinely engage with clients and colleagues in an enthusiastic manner
• Taking responsibility in all matters in which you are involved
• Taking pride in excellence of work done

Perseverance and resilience

• Ability to work well under pressure without compromising work quality or standards. 
• Ability to move past obstacles to achieve end results in an efficient and professional manner.
• Ability to recover quickly from setbacks.

Results driven

• Uncompromising attitude to service delivery.
• Delivery of results even under heavy pressure.  
• Ability to handle high volumes as well as meet deadlines, with the view to adding value to the business by delivering the required results.

Team player

• Working together with colleagues and staff to enhance the team’s overall performance
• Leveraging off team synergies and to ensure a productive, efficient and caring work environment

Ethical

• Displays honesty and integrity at all times

Client Focus

• Dedicated to understanding and meeting the expectations and requirements of clients.
• Obtains the necessary information from clients and utilises the information for the delivery of service to the client. 
• Establishes and maintains effective relationships with clients. 

Work Standards

• Sets high goals or standards of performance for self, producing work timeously, accurately and of a consistently high standard. 
• Able to work according to a fee budget.

Planning and organizing

• Set priorities, manage schedules and plan accordingly in a constantly pressurised environment.

OTHER SKILLS:

Technical skills

• Possesses the tax technical skill to research, interpret and argue legal points, in order to deliver excellent tax opinions, transaction structures and legal documents.
• Strong critical reasoning
• Ability to apply theory in a practical and commercially astute manner

Business and financial skills

• Possesses the necessary commercial understanding of client requirements in order to deliver excellent client service
• Ability to utilise information from financial statements or other accounting records, within the context of tax computations, tax returns, tax opinions or tax due diligences (on-the-job training will be provided to enhance these skills)
• Ability to perform tax related calculations 

Communication

• Able to communicate effectively and express ideas clearly
• Ability to argue persuasively
• Produce documents that have appropriate organisation and structure, correct grammar and language, and which are easy to understand.

Computer Literacy

• Proficiency in all relevant computer software, including Word and Outlook.
• Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint is a pre-requisite – if this is not already present, on-the-job training will be provided to address these weaknesses

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EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• Preferably a Chartered Accountant (SA), with post articles experience within a tax practice or BCom (Accounting), with 5-7 years post articles experience within a tax practice
• Corporate, compliance and tax dispute resolution experience
• Multi-disciplinary tax experience, international tax experience and deferred tax experience would be an advantage
• High academic achiever, with numeracy and language skills
• Post graduate diploma or degree in taxation is a requirement

JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Working as part of a team providing assistance to clients on a variety of matters within a specialised tax practice
• Furnishing legal opinions and advice for clients on various tax issues, including legal and tax research
• Providing advice and assistance with tax disputes
• Providing tax related input on transaction structures, including in a cross-border context
• Providing tax related drafting support and commentary on legal documents
• Performing or reviewing tax calculations
• Preparing or reviewing corporate tax returns 

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:

Initiative, Enthusiasm, and Optimism

• Acting without prompting but aware of risks
• Takes action to achieve goals beyond what is required
• Optimistic in handling challenges and setting out for the best outcomes
• Genuinely engage with clients and colleagues in an enthusiastic manner
• Taking responsibility in all matters in which you are involved
• Taking pride in excellence of work done

Perseverance and Resilience

• Ability to work well under pressure without compromising work quality or standards. 
• Ability to move past obstacles to achieve end results in an efficient and professional manner.
• Ability to recover quickly from setbacks.

Results driven

• Uncompromising attitude to service delivery.
• Delivery of results even under heavy pressure.  
• Ability to handle high volumes as well as meet deadlines, with the view to adding value to the business by delivering the required results.

Team player

• Working together with colleagues and staff to enhance the team’s overall performance
• Leveraging off team synergies and to ensure a productive, efficient and caring work environment

Ethical

• Displays honesty and integrity at all times

Client Focus

• Dedicated to understanding and meeting the expectations and requirements of clients.
• Obtains the necessary information from clients and utilises the information for the delivery of service to the client. 
• Establishes and maintains effective relationships with clients. 

Work Standards

• Sets high goals or standards of performance for self, producing work timeously, accurately and of a consistently high standard. 
• Able to work according to a fee budget.

Planning and organizing

• Set priorities, manage schedules and plan accordingly in a constantly pressurised environment.

OTHER SKILLS:

Legal Technical skills

• Possesses the legal technical skill to research, interpret and argue legal points, in order to deliver excellent tax opinions, transaction structures and legal documents.
• Strong critical reasoning
• Ability to apply theory in a practical and commercially astute manner

Business and financial skills

• Possesses the necessary commercial understanding of client requirements in order to deliver excellent client service
• Ability to utilise information from financial statements or other accounting records, within the context of tax opinions or tax due diligences (on-the-job training will be provided to enhance these skills)

Communication

• Able to communicate effectively and express ideas clearly
• Ability to argue persuasively
• Produce documents that have appropriate organisation and structure, correct grammar and language, and which are easy to understand.

Computer Literacy

• Proficiency in all relevant computer software, including Word and Outlook.
• Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint is a requirement