Senior Accountant

At Red Ember Recruitment, we provide HR, Payroll, and Talent solutions that drive real business value. Our experienced team helps businesses streamline processes, optimise workforce management, and achieve growth. We handle recruitment from interns to executives, bulk hiring, response management, and specialised headhunting, alongside HR consulting, payroll support, and talent management.

Red Ember Recruitment is seeking on behalf of our client an experienced Senior Accountant to join their finance team based in Plattekloof.

The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting while supporting the Financial Manager with reconciliations, tax and audit requirements, stock and cash controls, budgeting, analysis and finance process improvements.

• Prepare accurate monthly management accounts, income statements and balance sheet schedules.
• Process journals, accruals and provisions within month-end deadlines.
• Review general ledger transactions for completeness, accuracy and correct classification.
• Maintain supporting working papers for key financial reporting balances.
• Support the preparation of annual financial statements and related schedules.

• Prepare and review monthly balance sheet reconciliations, including creditors, stock, cash-book and VAT control accounts.
• Investigate reconciling items and resolve exceptions.
• Escalate long-outstanding reconciling items where required.
• Ensure reconciliations are fully supported by appropriate documentation.
• Monitor the accuracy and integrity of financial transactions and account allocations.
• Maintain audit-ready files and supporting evidence.

• Prepare VAT reconciliations, submissions and payment packs for review.
• Assist with income tax, provisional tax and deferred tax calculations and schedules.
• Support SARS, external audit and statutory audit requirements.
• Ensure tax and statutory records are complete, accurate and submitted on time.
• Track audit queries through to resolution.

• Process and reconcile stock-related transactions accurately and timeously.
• Support stock take procedures and analyse weekly, monthly and annual stock results.
• Investigate stock variances and provide clear explanations.
• Maintain controls over inventory accounting, cost allocations and related journals.
• Assist operational teams with stock reporting requirements.

• Assist with annual budget preparation and periodic forecast updates.
• Prepare cost and revenue analysis to support management decisions.
• Import approved budgets into the accounting system and validate accuracy.
• Prepare cash flow inputs and other management schedules.
• Highlight material variances, risks and opportunities to the Financial Manager.

• Process financial transactions accurately using Sage Evolution and related systems.
• Identify opportunities to streamline, standardise and automate finance processes.
• Maintain compliance with company policies, internal controls and finance deadlines.
• Support continuous improvement of reporting templates, reconciliations and procedures.
• Safeguard the quality, integrity and confidentiality of financial information.

• Provide reliable financial information to the Financial Manager and senior stakeholders.
• Liaise with operations, creditors, payroll and other internal teams to resolve queries.
• Assist with internal, external and statutory information requests.
• Share knowledge and support junior or operational team members where required.

Noelle Hill