Remote Accountant for AI-Driven CaseWare & IFRS SME

Overseas; Stellenbosch; Remote; ZAR 997,000 - 1,661,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD salary

Paid Time Off

Holidays

Remote work

CaseWare license

AI training

Simulated portfolio

Long-term role

Job summary

Overseas in Stellenbosch is seeking an Accountant (CaseWare) to prepare annual financial statements for a portfolio of small, owner-managed companies, from trial balance to signing pack. You will document steps and judgments for AI training and help design AI workflows that follow your methodology.

This role emphasizes hands-on CaseWare work, IFRS for SMEs, and shaping how AI learns to perform accounting tasks, with a long-term, permanent commitment to collaboration with an AI partner.

Qualifications

• Hands-on CaseWare experience including file setup, trial balance import and mapping, roll-forward, adjusting journals, and updating notes and comparatives - this is a hard requirement.
• Working knowledge of IFRS for SMEs and the Companies Act.
• Strong Excel skills including lookups, lead schedules, and reconciliations.
• Clear, polite written English for client requests and review responses.

Responsibilities

• Check each client's year-end pack including trial balance, account detail, bank certificates and statements, fixed asset register, and loan agreements, and request anything missing before starting.
• Agree last year's signed AFS to this year's opening balances and document any differences and the reason for them.
• Match client account names to CaseWare account numbers and lead sheet codes, build the import file, and load the trial balance.
• Tie bank balances and interest to the bank's IT3(b), foreign balances to a documented exchange rate, and creditors and income in advance to the client's detail.
• Post year-end journals for depreciation from the fixed asset register, deferred tax, prior-year tax adjustments, and client reclassifications, each with its supporting document.
• Roll forward the CaseWare file, update notes and comparatives, and prepare the tax computation.
• Clear AI partner review notes in writing and update the file.
• Prepare the final signing pack including final AFS, final trial balance, adjusting journals, tax computation, engagement letter, and loan agreements for director approval.

Skills

CaseWare

IFRS for SMEs

Excel

Education

BCom in Accounting

National Diploma in Accounting

Tools

Draftworx

Xero

Sage

Pastel

Job description

Overseas in Stellenbosch is seeking an Accountant (CaseWare) to prepare annual financial statements for a portfolio of small, owner-managed companies, from trial balance to signing pack. You will document steps and judgments for AI training and help design AI workflows that follow your methodology.

This role emphasizes hands-on CaseWare work, IFRS for SMEs, and shaping how AI learns to perform accounting tasks, with a long-term, permanent commitment to collaboration with an AI partner.