Starke Ayres: Assistant Accountant

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintains strong working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders by always acting professionally and responsibly, promoting goodwill and a positive image of the Company and the finance team.
• Ensures all documentation is securely filed, kept up to date, and readily accessible to the team.
• Supports the finance team with ad hoc requests to ensure all financial tasks remain current and up to date
• Ensuring all audit schedules and reconciliations are up to date for both internal and external audits.
• Process monthly financial journals and related entries, including bank transactions, prepayments, accruals, fleet expenses, and interest.
• Assist the Accounts Payable team with credit card reconciliations when required.
• Manage petty cash for the African subsidiaries.
• Process foreign exchange (forex) revaluations
• Perform bank reconciliations, ensuring they are kept up to date, with any reconciling differences—whether payable or receivable—promptly escalated to the relevant departments for resolution.
• Reconcile balance sheet accounts and clear outstanding entries to maintain clean accounts, ensuring no income statement items remain and supporting accurate interpretation of the company’s profit or loss.
• Complete monthly intercompany reconciliations, ensuring that long-standing reconciling items are identified, addressed timeously, and cleared
• Assist the finance team with processing fixed asset transactions, including capitalisation, disposals, and asset transfers.
• Help ensure asset management processes are followed, including proper labelling of assets, maintaining up-to-date asset registers, and ensuring effective control is in place
• Submit monthly Import VAT returns and ensure all related payments are forwarded to the Accounts Payable team and processed timeously.
• Prepare and submit the company’s monthly and bi-monthly VAT returns and ensure all related payments are forwarded to the Accounts Payable team and processed timeously.
• Complete annual VAT reconciliations (VAT) required for the year-end audit.
• Liaise with tax consultants and provide support during VAT and tax audits, ensuring matters are resolved promptly

Requirements

REQUIREMENTS:

Education:

• Grade 12 (essential)
• Diploma Finance/Bookkeeping (essential)

Experience:

• Minimum 3 years Bookkeeper.
• Assistant/Junior Accountant 1 year.