Junior Accountant

Yoyo Group; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 200 000 - 300 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading finance firm in Cape Town is seeking a motivated Junior Accountant. In this full-time role, you will assist with finance operations, manage accounts payable, and support month-end reporting. Ideal candidates should have a tertiary qualification in Finance and 1-3 years of accounting experience. This position offers a hybrid working arrangement and benefits like learning opportunities and flexible hours.

Benefits

Group Risk insurance with Discovery Health

Learning & development opportunities

Hybrid working arrangement

Flexible working hours

On-site barista with the best coffee

Subsidised healthy meals

Weekly socials & annual social calendar

Employee wellbeing with Strove

Employee reward scheme with Zuzo

Generous leave policy

Qualifications

• 1-3 years work experience as a Junior Accountant.
• Solid understanding of accounting principles.
• Familiar with a collaborative team environment.

Responsibilities

• Assist with day-to-day finance operations.
• Manage the full Accounts Payable function.
• Prepare month-end tasks and financial reports.
• Maintain the fixed asset register.
• Support statutory and group audit processes.

Skills

Accounting principles

Excel proficiency

Cloud accounting software

General Ledger Reconciliation

Accounts Payable

Journal Entries

Education

Reputable tertiary qualification in Finance or Accounting

Tools

Xero

QuickBooks

Sage

Microsoft Excel

Job description

About the Job

We are looking for a motivated and detail-oriented Junior Accountant to join our Finance this role you will assist with day-to-day finance operations such as billing accounts payable month-end tasks banking administration fixed asset updates and compliance activities. You will work under the guidance of the Senior Financial Accountant and support the Billing Lead FinOps and other teams to help keep financial processes accurate organised and running smoothly.

Responsibilities

Billing & Revenue

• Maintain and update the Billing Engine including processing billing changes and supporting monthly billing cycles.
• Raise month-end invoices and prepare associated reports.
• Populate revenue schedules and ensure reconciliations are completed.
• Provide support to the Billing Lead when required.

Accounts Payable & Procurement

• Manage the full Accounts Payable function including vendor onboarding and procurement.
• Perform AP reconciliations and month-end close activities.

Month-End & Financial Reporting

• Assist the Senior Financial Accountant with month-end tasks including float reconciliations journal imports bank balance checks and passing standard monthly journals.
• Process prepayments and accruals.
• Update financial documents with consolidated actuals.
• Manage Mauritian month-end close and payment processing.

Banking & Cash Management

• Manage finance inbox queries and communication.
• Perform bank imports and perform bank reconciliations.
• Maintain general banking administration.

Fixed Assets

• Maintain the fixed asset register and ensure accurate classification tracking and depreciation processing.

Compliance & Audit

• Support statutory and group audit processes and respond to audit requests.
• Handle CIPC submissions.
• Prepare and submit monthly VAT and PAYE returns.
• Compiling & providing necessary documents for B-BBEE verifications.

Project work

• Manage the end-to-end onboarding of franchisees / store owners onto Billdozer.
• Send mandates follow up and ensure successful completion.
• Maintain accurate store owner details across systems.
• Identify inefficiencies in the onboarding process and recommend improvements.
• Manage onboarding of digital & physical gift card clients issue invoices and coordinate with FinOps and the Campaigns team once funds are received.

Qualifications

• Reputable tertiary qualification in Finance or Accounting.
• 1-3 Years work experience as a Junior Accountant.
• Experience in cloud accounting software such as Xero.
• Solid understanding of accounting principles.
• Proficient in MS Office specifically in Excel.
• Familiar with a collaborative team environment.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Tech-savvy.
• Passionate about working with numbers.
• Solution focused with the ability to work proactively.
• Good at optimizing systems and processes.
• Detail-oriented with good organisational skills.
• Multitaskers and able to prioritise work in a fast-paced environment.

The perks at Yoyo

• Group Risk insurance with Discovery Health.
• Learning & development opportunities.
• Hybrid working arrangement.
• Flexible working hours.
• On-site barista with the best coffee in town.
• Subsidised and healthy meals at an in-house cafe.
• Weekly socials & an annual social calendar to include the family.
• Employee wellbeing with Strove.
• Employee reward scheme with Zuzo.
• Generous leave policy.

Values

• Be extremely customer centric: in everything we do serve and delight our customers using data to continuously improve.
• Be a passionate team player: spiral up be positive bring momentum and energy to those around you leave ego at the door and be teachable.
• Be an owner: be accountable and take responsibility. Find solutions learn from your mistakes and own tasks to completion.
• Be world‑class at speed: delivering world leading solutions that delight our clients and customers.
• Be curious and creative: constantly innovating exploring learning stretching ourselves pushing the boundaries and thinking out of the box.

Application Deadline

Applications close on Friday 28 November and you will hear from us in the 2 weeks following that on the status of your application.

Remote Work

No

Employment Type

Full-time

Key Skills

• General Ledger Reconciliation
• Accounting Software
• Account Analysis
• Journal Entries
• QuickBooks
• General Ledger Accounting
• Accounting
• Sage
• Account Reconciliation
• Bank Reconciliation
• Microsoft Excel
• Accounts Payable

Other Details

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1