Accountant - Ad posted by People Dimension

Requirements:
SAIPA Articles (Preferably done in a small firm)

Job Description:
1. Monthly Analyses Sales and Cost of Sales:
• Ensuring that sales and cost of sales transactions are correctly allocated.

2. Monthly Analyses operating Expenses:
• Bad Debts
• Cleaning
• Commission Paid
• Consulting Fees
• Repairs and Maintenance
• Staff Training
• Staff Welfare
• Subscription
• Telephone and Fax

3. Monthly Analyses Sales and Cost of Sales:
• Journalising the manufacturing variances and ensuring that the variances as
per the income statement/T.B balances with the Weekly/Monthly Production
Report.

4. Monthly Analyses and balancing of loan accounts:
• Preparing loan account schedules.
• Ensuring that the loan accounts balance in all sets of accounts.
• Preparing monthly summary of outstanding balances.

5. Month end schedules for the instalment sales:
• Reconciling loan statements to the balances as per the accounting records.
• Processing finance charge journals.
• Preparing monthly summary of outstanding balances.

6. Fixed Asset Register:
• Maintaining the fixed asset register.
• Process depreciation journals.
• Maintain fixed asset file.

7. Ensure that the cash books are processed and reconciled on a weekly basis.

8. Ensure that all inventory control accounts balance with stock on hand schedules
(Quantities, unit cost and value)

9. Ensure that debtors are balanced by no later than 2 work days after the last day of
the month:
• Debtors to have received their monthly statements by no later than 2 work
days after the last day of the month.
• Ensure that statement are correct and sent to the correct contact person for
each respective client.

10. All creditors must be reconciled by the 10th of each month.
• Prepare creditors reconciliations for each creditor. (Including NED Fleet
Account)
• Ensure that all variances are recoiled and clearly set out on the creditor’s
reconciliation.

11. Payroll Accrual Accounts:
• Prepare monthly payroll journal.
• Prepare a reconciliation for each of the payroll accrual accounts.
• Ensure that each payroll accrual accounts balances to actual outstanding
amounts.

12. VAT Reconsolidation:
• Prepare monthly VAT reconciliation.
• Ensure that accounting records balance with VAT 201 forms.

13. Provision for Taxation:
• Prepare monthly provision for taxation journal.
• Prepare monthly provision for taxation schedule.

Month End Reporting: