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Financial Accountant
Stellenbosch, Western CapePOSITION: Finance Accountant
LOCATION: Stellenbosch
REPORTING TO: Financial Manager
A wine farm, situated just outside the beautiful Stellenbosch, is currently looking for
an accountant to join their dynamic and passionate finance team. This position forms
an important and integral part of the finance department.
Responsibilities:
Experience and qualifications:
LOCATION: Stellenbosch
REPORTING TO: Financial Manager
A wine farm, situated just outside the beautiful Stellenbosch, is currently looking for
an accountant to join their dynamic and passionate finance team. This position forms
an important and integral part of the finance department.
Responsibilities:
- Manage of full debtor function, including assistance with issue of invoices
- Check sales invoices issued by the rest of the team.
- Assistance with the release of incoming foreign receipts from debtors.
- Check and update of daily tasting room and restaurant sales from POS, including check of daily cash-ups
- Review of weekly and ad hoc payments on banking portal
- Prepare of bank reconciliations
- Completion and submission of statutory returns (EMP 201 & VAT201 returns)
- Prepare of fixed asset register and depreciation calculations
- Monthly preparation of trial balances (including balance sheet reconciliations and fixed asset register)
- Assistance with inventory control and monthly stock counts
- Assistance with interim and final financial audit (audit working papers and inquiries)
- Assistance with yearly BEE audit
- Assist finance team with ad hoc accounting related queries
Experience and qualifications:
- Tertiary qualification in accounting is a minimum requirement
- Experience as an accountant will be an advantage
- Good computer literacy
- Own transport
- Experience in and knowledge of the South African wine industry will be an advantage
- Good people skills - you will have staff reporting to you as well as interaction with other departments
- The successful candidate will have to be able to meet strict deadlines for submissions and reporting
- Team player - be able to get things done as part of a team
- Will need to be able to work accurately under pressure