Senior Accountant for Engineering company specialising in sales and services in Modderfontein

Introduction

Our client, an engineering company, is looking for a Senior Accountant to join their team and manage their accounting department.

Competencies:

• Experience in Pastel Partner accounting software

• Experience in full payroll processing on Pastel Payroll

• Deadline driven

• Team Player

• Able to work under pressure

• Able to multi task

• Own reliable transport with valid drivers licence

Duties & Responsibilities

1. Daily Requirements

• Make sundry day to day payments to suppliers and others/review and release payments

• Ensure daily processing of Invoices

• Follow up on amounts due from clients.

• Assist with the office administration

• Process and reconcile the Bank Accounts and Petty cash pay outs and Cash/Credit Control Accounts, and ensure all the slips are attached

• Ensure all transactions are allocated to the correct accounts

• Issue staff leave forms and staff loan forms and ensure that they are signed by the appropriate manager before being filed

• Management of general HR function,

• Ensure that the office space is neat and tidy, that the filing is done on time and that all documents are properly stored and maintained in accordance with legislation

• Prepare and process the weekly Wages (Metal Industry experience will be an advantage)

2. Month end Processing

• Prepare journals and complete financial accounts to Trial Balance every month according to agreed upon deadlines

• Produce Trial Balance for management and provide comments where necessary

• Ensure all expenses are captured and included in the month end processing

• Ensure that the internal debtor’s accounts have all been journalized

• Review and sign off the month end check list and create a month end file with all the relevant documentation i.e. Asset register, Asset file, contracts etc.

• Ensure all Open Documents are reconciled monthly and outstanding reconciling items are followed up on and resolved

3. Salaries & Wages

• Prepare the salaries and wages schedule and ensure the commission is calculated and included

• Process the salaries and wages onto the Payroll System

• Ensure all salaries and wages are loaded and ready for payment by due date

• Ensure that any changes to individual salaries and wages are authorized

• Ensure payslips are provided to all salaried and wage employees

4. Creditors

• Ensure all imports creditors are correctly captured and that vat is processed correctly

• Ensure that all outstanding orders have been reviewed and that there are no expenses/purchases that have not been accounted for or accrued

• Ensure that all suppliers’ invoices have been matched up to orders

• Confirm the stock take has been finalised and get the following reports

• Month end stock values per category

• Stock adjustments report

• Waste report, Theft report

• Ensure all creditors have been reconciled prior to loading monthly payments

• Prepare a list of all creditors’ payments to be done at month end as well as any weekly and fortnightly paid creditors that may have to be paid

5. Fixed Assets

• The Fixed Asset register is to be maintained and reconciled

• Monthly depreciation journals to be calculated and processed

6. Statutory returns

• Complete required statutory returns and ensure that monthly payments for VAT, PAYE, UIF and SDL are done on time

• Ensure that the bi-annual EMP’s reconciliation process is done on time

• Ensure that annual payments for Provisional Tax, Income Tax, and RMA are paid on time

7. Adhoc

• As required by management

8. Other duties

• Assist with arrangements of entertainment, functions, etc. upon request

• Assist with BEE consulting and BEE verification, including calculation of amounts to be spent for certain elements.

• Management of the junior bookkeeper and receptionist

• Management of the IT and related consultants

• All aspects relating to the banking

• Attend to any other duties that may be legitimately assigned

• Completing of annual equity reports

• Completing of annual MERSETA reports

Desired Experience & Qualification

B.com degree or advance certificate in accounting

Atleast 10 years experience as an in-house accountant for a business

Package & Remuneration

R35 000 - R45 000 (negotiable based on experiance)