Financial Accountant

About the Role

We are looking for a dependable and experienced Financial Accountant to take responsibility for its complete day-to-day accounting function through to trial balance. This is a hands‑on position combining financial accounting, bookkeeping, payroll administration, statutory returns, financial controls and management reporting.

The successful candidate must be comfortable working independently and taking full ownership of the accuracy, completeness and timeliness of the Company's financial records.

• Manage the complete accounting function through to a fully reconciled monthly trial balance.
• Maintain the general ledger and process all necessary journals.
• Manage the cashbook and perform monthly bank reconciliations.
• Reconcile all balance-sheet and control accounts monthly.
• Prepare and maintain accruals, provisions, prepayments and recurring journals.
• Investigate and correct accounting discrepancies promptly.
• Maintain complete supporting documentation and audit trails for all transactions.

• Process customer invoices, credit notes and account adjustments accurately.
• Maintain the debtors ledger and reconcile customer accounts.
• Monitor outstanding accounts and actively follow up on overdue payments.
• Allocate customer receipts correctly and promptly.
• Prepare debtors age analyses and collection reports.
• Resolve customer account and invoicing queries.
• Assist management with credit-control decisions and identify potentially doubtful debts.

• Create purchase orders. Match purchase orders to invoices
• Process supplier invoices and credit notes.
• Reconcile supplier statements to the creditors ledger.
• Maintain accurate supplier information and independently verify changes to supplier banking details.
• Prepare weekly and monthly supplier payment schedules.
• Ensure that payments are supported by approved invoices and appropriate documentation.
• Manage local and foreign supplier accounts, including exchange-rate differences where applicable.
• Monitor creditor ageing and planned payment commitments.

• Reconcile payroll reports to the general ledger and payroll bank payment.
• Review EMP
  201, EMP
  501, IRP5 and related statutory information prepared by the payroll provider.
• Liaise with the payroll provider regarding discrepancies and employee queries.
• Maintain secure and confidential payroll records.
• Ensure that payroll submissions, payments and statutory deadlines are completed accurately and on time.

• Prepare, reconcile and submit VAT
  201 returns.
• Ensure the correct VAT treatment of local purchases, imported goods, imported services and customer transactions.
• Maintain the necessary supporting documents for VAT and payroll submissions.
• Assist with SARS queries, verifications and audits.
• Monitor statutory submission and payment deadlines.
• Work with the Company's external tax practitioner or auditor on income-tax and other statutory matters.

• Reconcile laboratory consumables, trading stock and other inventory records to the general ledger.
• Assist with stock counts and investigate stock variances.
• Monitor inventory valuation and cost-of-sales allocations.
• Maintain the fixed-asset register.
• Record asset purchases, disposals, transfers and depreciation accurately.
• Reconcile the fixed-asset register to the general ledger.

• Prepare accurate monthly management accounts.
• Produce profit-and-loss, balance-sheet and cash-flow reports.
• Prepare budget-versus-actual reports and explain material variances.
• Assist with the annual budgeting process.
• Prepare short- and medium-term cash-flow forecasts.
• Provide management with relevant…