Accountant

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain the complete accounting records for six companies.

• Process all financial transactions accurately and timeously.

• Prepare monthly Trial Balances for each company.

• Ensure all general ledger accounts are accurately maintained.

• Perform monthly journal entries, accruals, and provisions.

• Maintain fixed asset registers.

• Prepare monthly management reports and financial reports for management.

• Assist with budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning.

• Monitor and analyse product, installation, and operational costs.

• Allocate direct and indirect costs accurately across projects and business units.

• Analyse margins and profitability by project and department.

• Identify cost-saving opportunities and report on cost variances.

• Assist management with pricing analysis and profitability reporting.

• Establish and monitor project budgets.

• Track project expenditure against approved budgets.

• Allocate labour, materials, subcontractor, and overhead costs to individual projects.

• Monitor project profitability and prepare project financial reports.

• Ensure project revenue and costs are recognised accurately.

• Work closely with project managers to monitor financial performance and forecast project outcomes.

• Maintain accurate inventory valuation and stock records.

• Reconcile inventory balances to the general ledger.

• Monitor inventory movements and investigate stock variances.

• Assist with stock takes and inventory audits.

• Ensure correct costing of inventory items.

• Monitor obsolete and slow-moving stock.

• Improve inventory controls and reporting.

• Bank reconciliations.

• Debtors reconciliations.

• Creditors reconciliations.

• Inter-company loan and balance reconciliations.

• General ledger reconciliations.

• VAT control reconciliations.

• Inventory and stock reconciliations.

• Monitor debtor collections.

• Manage creditor payments.

• Ensure supplier accounts are accurate.

• Resolve supplier and customer account queries.

• Monitor supplier reconciliations and payment terms.

• Prepare VAT calculations and submissions.

• Assist with PAYE and statutory reporting.

• Ensure compliance with SARS requirements.

• Prepare documentation for audits and year-end financial statements.

• Ensure compliance with accounting standards and company financial policies.

• Maintain accurate accounting records and filing systems.

• Assist with budgeting and cash flow reporting.

• Prepare monthly management accounts.

• Liaise with auditors, tax practitioners, and external accountants.

• Continuously improve accounting processes and internal controls.