Accountant

Strategy

• Understand the importance of revenue, productivity, chargeability and the client relationship and effectively apply this understanding to daily tasks Collaborate with management to devise efficient defense strategies

Operations

• Responsible for delivering specified deliverable to clients in accordance with deadlines
• Ensure appropriate controls, policies and processes are adhered to
• Create and maintain relevant records
• Assist with implementing changes to procedures, guidelines, etc.
• Escalate client/work issues to Supervisor/Manager
• Assist other members of the team, giving guidance and mentoring, as required
• Collect appropriate data from clients and input into database as required
• Establish and maintain a good working relationship with clients
• Deal with or act on correspondence from third parties including authorities, lawyers, partners, etc.
• Support the implementation and updating of systems
• Various other miscellaneous tasks as instructed from time to time

Client service

• Support clients with service delivery matters
• Attend client meetings, as required
• Prepare client work in accordance with procedures
• Work with clients to ensure required data is received in good time
• Prepare and submit approved returns, submissions, accounts, reports et al as applicable

Team participation

• Inputting information in system
• Review, test and reconcile the work and data received from third parties
• Set up and maintain computerized entity financial databases
• Banking, cash and cashbook maintenance
• Debtor and creditors maintenance and reconciliations
• VAT and WHT returns
• Statutory reporting, including assisting in preparing AFS and populating withholding tax returns
• Monthly, quarterly and annual management reports
• Assist with the co-ordination of monthly and annual trackers
• Perform any other reasonable assignment requested by management