Senior Accountant Northern Cape - Kimberley

Forming part of a team providing accounting, tax, and general advisory services to a client portfolio. This entails assisting a manager in the fields of accounting and regulatory requirements with a specific focus on relationships with clients to guarantee and surpass their expectations of service delivery.

The key responsibilities of the position are:

- Take overall responsibility for assigned work and be able to work independently

- Support and coach junior team members to develop themselves on a personal and technical level

- Interrogating current practices and proposing enhancements to improve efficiencies with a specific focus on technology

- Identify information required and requesting it from clients and/or relevant sources

- Take responsibility of monthly financial accounting services

- Preparing reconciliations of financial statement line items

- Compilation of financial statements

- Proposing appropriate accounting treatments in line with applicable financial reporting standards

- Provisional and income tax calculations

- Reconciliation and submission of input/output VAT

- Review of work performed by junior team members

- Ability to identify errors and propose appropriate remedies

- Adhering to deadlines in a timeous manner

In addition, the following internal tasks will also be required:

- Accurate record keeping and adhering to set budgets

- Adhering to internal strategic goals and operational activities in terms of approved policies and procedures

- Take ownership of personal develop through development plans and requesting continuous feedback on their progress in relation to these plans (performance management)

- Complying to risk management and related policies and procedures

- Ensuring that quality assurance standards/measures are met, both internally set standards and the requirements of external bodies

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