Financial Accountant / Bookkeeper

Opsfi; Gauteng; Hybrid; ZAR 200 000 - 300 000; Full time

Job summary

A tech-focused accounting firm is seeking a SAIPA-registered accountant or experienced bookkeeper to join their team in Gauteng. The role involves managing bookkeeping for crypto and fiat clients, preparing Annual Financial Statements, and handling VAT and Income Tax submissions. The ideal candidate will have strong client relationship management skills and a willingness to learn. This position offers market-related compensation and a unique incentive policy, working in a modern environment with hybrid office arrangements.

Benefits

Market-related compensation

Unique incentive scheme

Growth opportunities in the tech industry

Qualifications

• Experience in bookkeeping/accounting, preferably with SAIPA registration.
• Ability to produce Annual Financial Statements and manage client meetings.
• Experience with payroll reconciliation and tax submissions is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Manage crypto and fiat bookkeeping for a small portfolio of clients.
• Prepare Annual Financial Statements in Draftworx Cloud.
• Submit VAT, PAYE, and Income Tax returns.
• Maintain relationships with clients and address queries.

Skills

Bookkeeping experience

Client relationship management

Comfortable with Xero

Open-mindedness for learning

Education

Registered SAIPA accountant or completed articles

Tools

Xero

Draftworx Cloud

Fathom

Hubdoc

Dext

Job description

Would you like to differentiate yourself?

We are a growing, modern and tech-focused accounting firm.

We have amazing offices in Bree Street, Cape Town, and we operate on a hybrid basis (working in office 3x per week to ensure we maintain a strong culture and a strong foundation of constant collaboration), which means you would need to be comfortable working from office 3x per week.

Our mission is to be the best accountants in the tech industry by providing our clients best-in-class compliance, financial visibility and insights.

The digital asset space is seeing exponential growth and is the future, as the United States has issued an Executive Order to accelerate the innovation of AI and crypto.

We are very much embedded into the new digital age.

What we do

We provide a premium, full-suite, outsourced bookkeeping and accounting/finance function to SME's, mainly in the technology space across the globe, that includes AI, fintech and blockchain companies.

This includes bookkeeping, compliance, payroll, software integration, regular client meetings, and financial advisory.

In our accounting division, we only work with retainer clients whom we service on a monthly recurring basis.

Your role

We are looking for individuals with decent bookkeeping/accounting experience or you are a SAIPA-registered accountant who has completed your articles at a professional services firm.

Training will be provided on tools and software where necessary.

You may be responsible for supporting all of the following functions for a small portfolio of clients as a team (not all clients have the same requirements) :

• Crypto bookkeeping – reconciling transactions using our in-house tool or off-the-shelf subledger software and reviewing the journal entries for Xero.
• Fiat bookkeeping – reconciling all transactions in Xero, passing all required manual journals in Xero, maintaining the Fixed Asset Register in Xero, reviewing the balance sheet and profit or loss, and using Hubdoc or Dext to capture supplier bills and push them through to Xero.
• Fathom Reporting – syncing Xero with Fathom, updating and classifying accounts in Fathom to produce monthly management reports to send to the client.
• Client Meetings – joining your team for meetings with the clients online to touch base on their management accounts and address any queries that they might have.
• Maintaining the client relationship – this is very important to us; you must be comfortable being client-facing and willing to do your own problem‑solving.
• Annual Financial Statements – preparing AFS in Draftworx Cloud.
• Payroll reconciliations – from the payroll system to Xero.
• Tax Filings – submitting VAT, PAYE, and other returns (e.g., VATs, EMPs).
• Income Tax – submitting Income Tax and Provisional Tax returns for companies and their directors.
• Ad‑hoc client requests and other reconciliations – creditor, debtor, payroll, fixed asset register, balance sheet, and any other recon to keep client accounts up to date.

While we do not have many South African-based clients, we still require SARS interaction for some clients, albeit less than you would be used to in South Africa.

You will be part of a team that is responsible for the full financial function of your clients. It means that you will experience client-facing meetings and work with a team to ensure that the accounts are accurate and seamless.

Your goal will be to become able to service clients on your own, while you will have support from senior accountants if you need assistance.

While it is helpful, you do not need to have knowledge or experience with cryptocurrency or technology companies, as full training will be provided; however, being open-minded is very helpful in the learning process.

This will represent amazing growth opportunities, differentiating yourself from other accountants/bookkeepers as blockchain and AI are the future of finance.

It is also a great opportunity to work with a very talented team that will elevate your career path.

Benefits

Compensation is market related with a very unique incentive scheme/policy in place.

If this sounds like you, we look forward to receiving your application.