Auditing and Accounting Assistant

Job Description
A well-respected professional accounting practice that has served SMEs and individual taxpayers across SA for over 40 years is seeking a skilled Accounts / Audit Assistant. Some experience in auditing is preferable. If articles have been served, it will be considered advantageous.

Your knowledge and experience are required in the following areas:

• Processing cash books and bank reconciliations
• Receipts & payments and petty cash
• Sales invoicing and debtors accounts
• Purchases & expenses transactions and creditors accounts
• General journal entries and their use, payroll records and how they enter the books of account
• General ledger populating
• Trial balances extraction
• Income statements and statements of financial position
• Internal controls and other sound business practices

• Confidence to deal with a variety of clients in various roles from taking stock, recording and counting petty cash, physically inspecting assets to drafting financial statements.
• Understanding trial balances
• Age Analyses - Debtors and creditors and bank reconciliations
• Some familiarity with taxes: personal and company

• At least 3 years accounting experience.
• Accounting - academic background and practical experience with the ability to process transactions and extract at least to trial balance stage.
• Ability and/or experience of drafting income statements and statements of financial position will be considered advantageous.
• Clear understanding of the double-entry bookkeeping system, with experience in reconciling bank balances, creditors and debtors statements.
• Understanding and experience of financial reporting periods, the need for journal entries and working with payroll and fixed asset registers.
• Strong numerical ability.
• Good command of the English language - verbal and written.
• Computer literate as well as digitally-savvy.
• Integrity and emotional intelligence.
• Good sense of humour.
• A curious self-starter.
• MS Office essential - Excel and Word.
• Ideally a graduate but can be self-taught (if sufficient work experience, a relevant and proven track record is required).
• Maths at a HG level at school or tertiary subject is preferred.
• Experience with accounting packages such as Pastel, Xero, Quickbooks, Sage Evolution is desirable.
• Experience with management reporting packages such as Caseware, Auditmate, will be considered advantageous.
• Take pride in the work they do.
• Integrity and responsibility.
• Be able to deliver an effective, understandable product (piece of work) which can be backed up for each conclusion or statement it contains.
• Understand that all pieces of work require accuracy and focus.
• Must be in good health.
• Should have no other current business interests (no moonlighting).
• Must be a team player in being accountable for whatever they do.
• Planning; meticulous preparation; excellent execution; improving and following up where necessary.
• Able to work in a time-driven environment (work is tracked in timesheets).
• Must be ready to work beyond normal hours when necessary.
• Ability to prioritise and deliver with accuracy and quality.
• Must be precise about filing both hard copy and digital material.
• Must have experience with payroll's EMP201 returns; VAT returns.
• Income tax and e-filing.
• Should understand what is meant by: Audit trail and Portfolio of Evidence.
• Work will be predominantly based in-office, sometimes based at client premises (not remote/virtual).
• Therefore: Must live within 15kms from Rosebank or in Sandton.
• Must have a driver's license and ideally own car.
• Must have own laptop (even though will not use personal laptop for work).