SAICA Trainee Accountant - Cape Town

Job Description
Outsourced CFO is recruiting for SAICA Trainee Accountants to join our team!

As a SAICA Trainee Accountant, your role is designed to offer you comprehensive training and mentorship as you develop key accounting and financial management skills. Over the course of the three-year program, your responsibilities will evolve from basic tasks to more advanced functions, with a gradual reduction in supervision, allowing you to take on increasing responsibility and independence.

Job description:

Client Services:

• Assist with preparing supporting schedules and compiling basic financial statements under supervision.
• Provide limited assistance with independent review working papers and report to seniors.
• Help prepare and develop templates for financial gap analysis, completing sections for senior review.
• Support cloud accounting tasks, including screening investors, preparing pitch decks, and ensuring tax compliance.
• Assist consultants with client deliverables like budgeting, cash flow forecasting, financial statement reviews, and audit preparation under supervision.
• Screen investors and provide reporting to seniors, along with handling ad-hoc client requests.

Client Engagement:

• Engage, build, and maintain strong relationships with existing clients.
• Attend and participate in regular client meetings as instructed.
• Communicate potential over- or underruns to POD leaders.

Planning & Client admin:

• Plan monthly deliverables for your assigned portfolio.
• Submit timesheets on time, before COB on Fridays.
• Ensure weekly and monthly sign-offs for all projects in your portfolio.
• Regularly update CRM and Zoho projects with client details.

People & Company culture:

• Regularly attend and participate in company team events.
• Develop and maintain a positive, productive company culture.
• Promote and ensure adherence to company values.
• Foster a culture of teamwork, collaboration, and mutual respect.

Training & skills development

• Ensure scheduled training is completed.
• Provide training to team members and trainees at a junior capacity.
• Stay updated with the latest accounting industry changes and trends.
• Track and ensure timely submission of LOR and PDS.

Requirements

The ideal candidate for this position will have a Bcom Accounting Degree Honours/ CTA equivalent and be based in Cape Town, South Africa.

Characteristics of the ideal candidate

• Initiative & Independence
• Multi-tasking & Problem Solving
• Teamwork & Interpersonal Relationships
• Dependability & Reality Testing
• Attention to Detail & Stress Tolerance
• Planning & Analytical Thinking

Benefits

Our OCFO values:

• Family first
• Integrity matters
• Switched on Thinking
• Excellence in everything
• Growth and success

Head Office: Cape Town City Centre, Western Cape (Fully in office based role)

Fixed Term Contract - Subject to a three-month probation period.

Starting Date: February 2026 / February 2027 / February 2028