Staff Accountant; BBS

We're looking for a Staff Accountant to run the monthly accounting cycle for a simulated portfolio of small, owner-managed clients, from payroll and the client's monthly information pack through to reconciled books, the management report, and the VAT and payroll returns. Your work becomes the training data and workflow designs that a cutting-edge AI accounting system learns from. This is a long-term, permanent role working directly with the founder and an AI partner at the frontier of AI development in accounting.

The work here goes beyond standard month-end execution. You will run each simulated client's month to a professional standard, but you will also document the steps, decisions, and judgments behind your work so an AI system can learn from them. That means designing and testing the workflows the AI follows, not just producing the outputs. If you have hands-on month-end experience, a working knowledge of South African VAT and payroll compliance, and a genuine interest in making accounting work teachable to a machine, this role is a strong fit.

• You will be paid in USD (bi-monthly: every 15th and 30th)
• Paid Time Off in accordance with company policy
• Observance of Holidays per company guidelines
• 100% remote setup so you can work wherever you're most productive
• Own a simulated client portfolio and work alongside an AI partner from day one
• Long-term, permanent role at the cutting edge of AI development in accounting where your judgment directly shapes the AI that accountants will use

The Monthly Accounting Cycle

• Check that the client's payroll instructions are complete, process the payroll, and confirm the tax payment date
• Prepare the EMP
  201 covering PAYE, SDL, and UIF, tie it to the payroll summary, and prepare the payment
• Receive the client's monthly pack including bank and card statements, asset register, stock, creditors, debtors, bad debts, sales summary, and petty cash, and check that every file is present and covers the right month
• Capture and code bank and card transactions and post stock, depreciation, payroll, creditor, and debtor journals
• Reconcile bank and card accounts to the statements and keep loan and owner's loan schedules current
• Draft the monthly management report including income statement, balance sheet, gross profit analysis, and a short written commentary
• Prepare the VAT working and VAT
  201 return every second month and prepare the payment
• Clear AI partner review notes, save final versions, and close the month

• Spot what does not look right in the pack including old content carried into new files, changed bank file layouts, and supplier names spelled differently
• File every document for the period it belongs to, not the month it was produced
• Handle requests to simulated client management and bookkeepers to obtain missing or unclear records
• Flag turnover above the R2.3m VAT registration threshold when a client is not registered

• Run each simulated month to a professional standard so it serves as high-quality training data
• Record the steps, decisions, and judgments behind your work in a way that can be taught to an AI model
• Design and refine the monthly workflows the AI follows, step by step
• Test the AI against your own work, identify where it goes wrong, and help fix it
• Use AI models day to day to capture and code transactions, draft reports, and check your own work, and apply sound judgment about when their output is correct

• BCom in Accounting, National Diploma in Accounting, or equivalent
• 0 to 2 years in an accounting practice or finance team including completed articles or a learnership in progress
• Hands-on experience running month-ends including capture, bank reconciliations, journals, and management reports
• Working knowledge of South African VAT, PAYE, SDL, and UIF, and the EMP
  201 and VAT
  201 returns
• Confident with double entry; you can post journals and explain why a bank reconciliation does not balance
• Strong Excel skills including lookups, pivot tables, and cleaning up CSV files with irregular layouts
• Detail-oriented and deadline-driven; tax dates and payday do not move
• Clear, polite written English for client requests and review responses
• Genuine interest in AI and in breaking accounting work into clear, teachable steps
• Comfortable working with AI models and able to check and challenge what they produce

• Experience with Eureka, Sage, Xero, or a similar accounting system
• Experience with Sage Pastel…