Group Financial Accountant

Ability Executive Recruitment; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Ability Executive Recruitment in Sandton is seeking a senior finance operations professional to oversee monthly accounting cycles, payroll, and tax submissions. The role reports to the Financial Director and CEO, coordinating across entities to ensure accurate reporting and compliance.

The candidate will manage invoicing, reconciliations, budgeting, and financial controls, while supporting supplier contracts and audit preparations in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Formal accounting qualification and SAIPA/SAICA accreditation is preferred.
• Ten years of working experience in accounting/finance and audit familiarity.
• Proficient with Sage and SARS E-Filing processes.

Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly management accounts for all entities and reconcile to trial balance.
• Capture invoices, debtors and creditors in Sage; balance reconciliations.
• Produce VAT/Tax returns and reconciliations; assist SARS submissions.
• Manage payroll, PAYE and monthly SARS submissions for staff.
• Prepare audit packs and liaise with external auditors.
• Maintain asset registers and depreciation calculations.
• Prepare monthly wholesale reports and invoicing from ERP outputs.

Skills

Sage Accounting

Sage One

Sage Payroll

Microsoft Excel

SARS E Filing

Education

Accounting degree or diploma

Tools

Sage Accounting Software

Centricity

Microsoft Office 365

Job description

Ability Executive Recruitment | Full time

Sandton, South Africa | Posted on 24/08/2026

FinancialOperations Skill Set and Experience

(Monthly/ Daily Financial Management Tasks and Reporting to Financial Director andCEO).

• Monthly management accounts pack for all entities of thegroup, Including the following document printed out for management approval,Trial Balance, age analysis Debtors, age analysis Creditors, Paye Schedule and Recon,Vat 201 Report and Recon, Statement of Account SARS all reconciled andbalancing due around 27 th of each month.
  
• Capture all invoices, debtors, and creditors onto Sage,and reconcile. Debtors and Creditors to balance with Month end Statements ofCreditor and Debtor Account.
  
• Prepare all data captured to trial and to balanceMonthly.
  
• Reconcile bank statements for all entities on pasteldaily tasks.
  
• Report to director’s minimum once a week withcompleted tasks
  
• Calculate and reconciliation of sales and / ormarketing team commission.
  
• Create monthly budget for allocation of funds for allcompany expenses across all entities for director’s approval.
  
• Assist with managing supplier contracts which includemonitoring terms, notice periods, and keeping records of when cancellationnotices must be sent out to avoid penalties or additional costs.
  
• Assist in producing monthly wholesale report from AgilityPlatform and invoice all clients from the information extracted from thewholesale Report.
  
• Assist in upgrading and downgrading of customers /subscribers from this process and deal with all queries that arise from thisprocess.
  

Monthly SARS preparations and Submissions:

• Monthly payroll and PAYE calculations, recons and submissionson e-filing. Month end balance to SARS statement of account.
  
• PAYE registrations for new staff employed as and whenrequired.
  
• Monthly VAT 201 to be submitted to Directors toapprove with excel breakdown. If SARS Audit is required, all information forSARS audit is required and to be prepared for director’s approval.Assistance in obtaining Tax Clearance Certificate,yearly or as and when required.
  
• IRP 5 Submissions to be completed and submittedannually.
  
• EMP501 mid-year and end of year to be submitted onSARS Eazi File Platform.
  
• Deal with SARS and ensure all unallocated payments orqueries are allocated and balance with internal Sage system.
  

NetworkAsset Register

• Capture all Network Assets on Sage system and invoicecorrect entities to bring these Assets onto the Company Balance sheet.
  
• Calculate depreciation of Company Assets.
  

Clientand or Debtor Monthly Preparation and reconciliation.

• Monthly invoicing to clients on Sage, with invoicepacks
  
• Prepare, and compile on bank system and load payments for(Debtor) for debit orders from the debit order collection platforms.
  
• Reconcile payments that have been received towholesale reports and individual statements and ensure they balance.
  
• Those debit orders that are not successful, clients tobe contacted and notice to be provided for cancellation of services / and orcredit listing to be executed on Accountability platform without delay.
  

Financial Audit Skill set and Audit Pack Preparationand Liaison with Company appointed Auditors

• Liaise with Company Auditors on the informationrequired for audits and obtain task list from the Auditor and execute.
  
• Prepare full Audit Pack once a year for all Entities.
  
• Prepare all information, including year-end balance andTrial Balance, General Ledger to be reconciled and to balance all Journals.
  
• Assist with VATRecon, Balance and to SARS statement of Account.
  
• PAYE to Balance to SARS statement of Account.
  
• Preparation of Bank Statements for the year, to besent to Auditor.
  
• Creditor and Debtor recon to balance to zero.
  

ContractorsPayments, Rate Card and Reconciliation:

• Prepare Monthly all Rate Cards with correct values accordingto bill of quantities and agreed rates for director approval.
  
• Daily Task to reconcile Centricity Reports on excel forall contractors and ensure all work has been issued according to theseCentricity numbers, and to follow up with Contractors on email or “WhatsApp”:to ensure that the flows are completed and ready for finance.
  
• Reconcile Monthly Contractor Account with StoreManager on equipment / stock or tool hire issued. Any amount due to the companyto be deducted before any payments are made, these tasks must be completedbefore the month end.
  

HRand Employee Contracts:

• Prepare and issue monthly pay slips on Sage payroll,and email to all employees.
  
• Capture all approved leave requests during the month.
  
• Issue yearly IRP 5 to all employees.
  
• Prepare Annual leave recon at year end to prepare forfinal staff salary payments at year end.
  
• Send all New staff employee form to be completed oncenew staff member is employed and save all this information on the companyserver.
  
• Prepare internal lab our / staff / drivers wages andsalaries including commission and incentives.
  

Requirements

• Minimum Tertiary Degree or Diploma in Accounting.
  
• Minimum Accredited with Financial Professional Body (SAIPA,SAICA)
  
• Required Minimum - Fluent in Sage Accounting Softwareand or Sage One Accounting Software.
  
• Required Minimum - Fluent in Sage Payroll AccountingSoftware.
  
• Required Minimum - Fluent in Microsoft Excel,Software.
  
• Required Minimum - Able to work on SARS E Filing
  
• Required Minimum - Microsoft office 365 includingTeams.
  
• Working Experience Minimum 10 years.
  
• Worked for Audit firm and understand requirements for Audit will be beneficial.
  
• Strong excel and ability to reconcile accounts.
  
• Strong communication skills will communicate with Auditors , Directors , Branch Managers , Store Managers.
  
• Strong organisation skills , delicate work . We do have Junior Accountant that needs to be managed and delegation of responsibilities.
  
• Will work with Asset registers and must understand depreciating assets.