Senior Accountant
Staff Unlimited
- Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Matric with Accounting at a Higher Grade
- BCom degree or equivalent degree with Accounting III and taxation
- Completed SAIPA articles or SAICA articles
- More than 6 years of experience in an accounting practice
- Interpersonal skills
- Communication skills: Be able to converse in English/Afrikaans/Xhosa (advantageous)
- Report writing skills
- Time Management
- Problem solving skills
- Organisational skills
- Training presentation skills
- Supervisory skills: Ability to supervise junior and intermediate accountants and provide leadership.
- Strong Accounting, Taxation and Auditing knowledge
- Decisive and accurate
- Ability to prioritise
- Ability to work under pressure in a deadline-driven environment
- Prepare the notes to financial statements
- Formulate accounting policies
- Identifying provisions and contingent liabilities
- Calculate the tax liability for sole proprietors, individuals, close corporations and trusts, small business corporations, farmers, Body corporates and partnerships.
- Calculate the taxation on lumpsum payments by retirement
- Tax planning – e.g., fringe benefits and allowances
- Tax avoidance / Non-resident tax
- Secondary tax on companies
- Perform vouching tests during an audit of (Pty) Ltd and Body Corporates to verify completeness, existence, accuracy, valuation, ownership and presentation.
- Calculation of PAYE/UIF/SDL levies and VAT.
- Completion of statutory returns e.g., UIF/SDL/PAYE/VAT.
- Liase with client re payment of the above returns.
- Reconciliations of input/output VAT to annual financial statements and monthly trial balances
- Compiling and discussing with the client of monthly management accounts.
- Complete a tax return for individuals, close corporations, trusts and body corporates.
- Recording and identifying short comings in internal controls
- Identifying risks and calculate materiality
- Statutory checks – member’s certificates, founding statements, association agreements etc.
- Pre-engagement procedures
- Acquisition of member’s interest / shareholding
- Review the monthly files of junior to intermediate accountants
- Completion and review of Management representation letters
- Qualifying the report of an Accounting Officer
- Complex level of accounting considering the above.
- Difficulty rate according to individual capabilities.