Accountant

Pronel Personnel; Hillcrest; On-site; ZAR 300,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking an individual skilled in payroll, accounting, and statutory compliance to manage financial operations across multiple entities. The role includes preparing cash books, processing payroll through Sage VIP, and ensuring statutory compliance for various submissions. Candidates with strong MS Excel skills and precision in financial tasks are preferred. This challenging position provides opportunities for detailed financial oversight in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in payroll processing (Sage VIP) and financial tasks.
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Sound knowledge of statutory submissions (EMP201, VAT201, UIF, IRP6, COIDA, CIPC).

Responsibilities

• Ensure smooth operation of financial and HR tasks across multiple entities.
• Prepare cash books, reconcile bank statements, and handle ad-hoc queries.
• Process monthly payroll and handle compliance with statutory submissions.

Skills

Payroll

Accounting

Statutory compliance

MS Excel

Education

SAICA / SAIPA articles

Tools

Sage VIP

Job description

Our client is looking for an individual with a skillset that includes payroll, accounting, and statutory compliance. This position would entail ensuring the smoothly running of weekly and monthly financial and HR operations across multiple entities and branches.

Duties:

Accounting

• Prepare multiple cash books and perform bank reconciliations.
• Allocate debtor receipts and creditor payments.
• Handle ad-hoc Accounting and HR queries.
• Capture cash books and bond statements for 3 Investment Property and 2 Retail entities.
• Update asset registers and process depreciation for 3 Investment Property entities.
• Extract monthly Retail Management Accounts in MS Excel for 5 entities.

Payroll and Reporting:

• Weekly reconciliation of manual MS Excel attendance registers / biometrics with Sage ESS leave applications.
• Process monthly Sage VIP payroll for 3 entities across 4 branches.
• Load monthly payslips and IRP5s to Sage ESS (3 entities).
• Create FNB OBE payroll import files (3 entities).
• Extract CTC reports from VIP and reconcile staff loans and medical aid to Sage.

Compliance:

• Extract and submit EMP201, load payments (3 entities).
• Complete and submit IRP5s after interim and annual EMP501 reconciliation via eFiling.
• Monthly UIF declarations via VIP.
• Prepare and submit VAT201 and IRP6 returns.
• Extract tax clearance certificates and review SARS notices on eFiling.
• Submit CIPC annual returns and process changes.
• Annual COIDA returns submission online.

HR Administration

• Prepare offers and contracts for approval and onboarding.

Requirements:

• Proven experience in payroll (Sage VIP) and financial processing.
• Strong MS Excel skills.
• Sound knowledge of statutory submissions (EMP201, VAT201, UIF, IRP6, COIDA, CIPC).
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail,
• SAICA / SAIPA articles will be given preference

Suitable applications to be emailed to [e-mail]