Senior Accountant (6-month contract)

CA Financial Appointments; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 480,000 - 720,000; Part time

Job summary

CA Financial Appointments is seeking a hands-on Senior Accountant in Cape Town for a six-month contract to steady the ship while finance leadership is built out.

You will own a multi-entity finance function with a strong emphasis on improving manual processes, cashbooks, VAT returns, and month-end reconciliations. This is a practical, roll-up-your-sleeves role with real ownership from day one.

Qualifications

• Experience running cashbooks across multiple entities.
• Experience with VAT, PAYE, SARS returns.
• Month-end close and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Ability to improve manual processes through systems and data.

Responsibilities

• Running cashbooks across multiple entities, including petty cash and trust accounts.
• Preparing and submitting SARS returns: VAT recons and submissions, PAYE, TCC, and handling VAT audit schedules.
• Processing and reconciling credit card schedules, rep expenses and sundry payments.
• Handling month-end: intercompany clearing of debtors and creditors to loan accounts, management fee and divisional recovery journals, export and intercompany COS reallocations, payroll journals and standard monthly journals.
• Owning the full monthly balance sheet reconciliation pack, including purchase accrual review.
• Finding efficiencies: bringing better use of systems and data to hand-processed work.

Skills

Multi-entity

VAT compliance

Intercompany

Month-end close

Process improvement

Job description

Are you the kind of accountant who looks at a manual process and immediately sees three ways to speed it up?

A well-established Cape Town manufacturing group is bringing in an experienced Senior Accountant on a six-month contract to hold the fort while they build out their finance leadership. This is a hands-on, multi-entity role with real ownership from day one. You will be stepping into a function that has been running on manual effort for a while, so there is plenty of room to make things sharper as you go.

What you'll be doing

• Running cashbooks across multiple entities, including petty cash and trust accounts
• Preparing and submitting SARS returns: VAT recons and submissions, PAYE, TCC, and handling VAT audit schedules
• Processing and reconciling credit card schedules, rep expenses and sundry payments
• Handling month-end: intercompany clearing of debtors and creditors to loan accounts, management fee and divisional recovery journals, export and intercompany COS reallocations, payroll journals and standard monthly journals
• Owning the full monthly balance sheet reconciliation pack, including purchase accrual review
• Finding the efficiencies: bringing better use of systems and data to work that is currently done by hand