CMS Junior Accountant

TMF Group; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 300 000 - 450 000; Full time

Job summary

A global administrative services provider is seeking an experienced Finance professional to deliver financial services to clients in South Africa. Candidates should have a qualification in Commerce, at least 2 years of relevant experience, and strong skills in bookkeeping and tax compliance. This role offers opportunities for career development and the chance to work in an inclusive environment that prioritizes work-life balance.

Benefits

Pathways for career development

Supportive environment

Global learning opportunities

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of relevant experience in an accounting or finance role.
• Hands-on experience in full-function bookkeeping and tax submission software.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Responsibilities

• Deliver specified deliverables to clients within deadlines.
• Maintain records and assist with procedure changes.
• Support client service delivery and prepare necessary reports.

Skills

Organizational skills

Time management

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Teamwork

Education

Qualification in Commerce or finance-related field

Tools

Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)

Bookkeeping systems and financial reporting software

Job description

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About TMF Group

TMF Group is a leading provider of administrative services, helping clients invest and operate safely around the world. As we’re a global company with 11,000+ colleagues based in over 125 offices across 87 jurisdictions, we actively seek out people with the talent and potential to flourish at TMF Group, whatever their background, and offer job opportunities to the broadest spectrum of people. Once on board we nurture and promote talented individuals, making sure that senior positions are open to all.

Discover the Role

It is an area experiencing significant growth in TMF, thus providing an opportunity for great career development.

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategy
   1. Understand the importance of revenue, productivity, chargeability, and the client relationship and effectively apply this understanding to daily tasks.
2. Operations
   1. Responsible for delivering specified deliverables (see below) to clients in accordance with internal and external deadlines
   2. Ensure appropriate controls, policies and processes are adhered to
   3. Create and maintain relevant records
   4. Assist with implementing changes to procedures, guidelines, etc.
   5. Escalate client/work issues to Accountants/Senior Accountants
   6. Assist other members of the team
   7. Collect appropriate data from clients and input into database as required
   8. Report to Senior Accountants or Manager as required
   9. Answer questions in a timely manner
   10. Establish and maintain a good working relationship with clients and colleagues.
   11. Deal with, act on, or assign correspondence from third parties including tax authorities, lawyers, partners, etc.
   12. Support the implementation and updating of systems
   13. Various other miscellaneous tasks as instructed from time to time
3. Client service
   1. Support clients with service delivery matters
   2. Attend client meetings, as required
   3. Prepare client work in accordance with procedures
   4. Work with clients to ensure required data is received in good time
   5. Prepare and submit approved returns, submissions, accounts, reports et al as applicable
4. Financial and commercial management
   1. Post time accurately in the internal time management system keeping to relevant submission deadline
   2. Identify opportunities for additional work with clients, ensuring identification, understanding of requirement, delivery and billing thereof
   3. Ensure the correct reporting of time spent for work on portfolios
   4. Assist with client billing and debtor management.
5. Technical Expertise
   1. Liaise with tax authorities and TMF offices on technical issues
   2. Use specific software programs and maintain databases as required
   3. Develop technical knowledge through reading and attendance at appropriate (internal and external) training courses, seminars, etc.
6. Key responsibilities (Capital Markets)
   1. Assist with the processing of client payments, which includes the preparation of supporting schedules
   2. Capture information in accounting system for Capital Markets clients. Including the following:
      1. Banking and cashbook maintenance
      2. Debtor and creditors maintenance and reconciliations
      3. General ledger maintenance through adjusting journals
   3. Processing transactions in the accounting system for complex and non-complex funds: asset deals, security pricing, foreign exchange spot and forward rates calculations as well as calculation of the fees, cash, and securities reconciliation.
   4. Calculation and production of accurate accounting and cash management schedules of the various alternative investment funds (private equity, real estate, debt, other alternatives).
   5. Analyze and perform waterfall reporting
   6. Preparation of monthly and quarterly management reports
   7. Review, test and reconcile the work and data received from third parties
   8. VAT return preparation
   9. Preparation of financial statements
   10. Liaising with auditors and facilitating annual statutory audits
   11. Populating corporate tax returns
   12. Contribute to the upkeep of the monthly and annual trackers
   13. Other ad-hoc duties related to Fund Administration and corporate secretarial tasks
   14. Perform any other reasonable assignment requested by management
   15. Personal utilization of 90% - whereby 90% of hours are aligned to client work and service

Key Requirements

1. Be organized, logical and thorough in the execution of their function.
2. Ability to follow defined processes through basic problem solving.
3. Deadline oriented person with the ability to work under pressure.
4. Ability to prioritize and manage personal workload.
5. Excellent time management and organizational skills.
6. Attention to detail and high level of accuracy.
7. Strives to meet service delivery standards.
8. Able to responds to client needs in a timely and professional manner.
9. Excellent communication skills with the ability to build good working relations at all levels, communicate clearly and act with courtesy.
10. Ability to maintain confidentiality.
11. Is a team player.
12. Be trustworthy, considerate and live the TMF values.
13. Understands personal development areas and is driven to ‘bridge’ gaps.

Key knowledge and experience:

1. Minimum 2 years of relevant experience in an accounting or finance‑related role.
2. Completed qualification in Commerce or a closely related financial or commercial field.
3. At least 2 years of hands‑on experience in full‑function bookkeeping, e‑filing, and/or use of tax submission software.
4. Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including Excel,Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
5. Experience working with bookkeeping systems and financial reporting software.
6. Practical experience with SARS e‑Filing and related tax compliance processes.
7. Experience in operating and navigating banking platforms.
8. Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to communicate professionally with internal and external stakeholders.
9. Highly accurate, well‑organized, and self‑motivated, with the ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.

What’s in it for you?

Pathways for career development

• Work with colleagues and clients around the world on interesting and challenging work.
• We provide internal career opportunities, so you can take your career further within TMF.
• Continuous development is supported through global learning opportunities from the TMF Business Academy.

Making an impact

• You’ll be helping us to make the world a simpler place to do business for our clients.
• Through our corporate social responsibility program, you’ll also be making a difference in the communities where we work.

A supportive environment

• Strong feedback culture to help build an engaging workplace.
• Our inclusive work environment allows you to work from our offices around the world, as well as from home, helping you find the right work-life balance to perform at your best.

We’re looking forward to getting to know you!

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