Staff Accountant
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Hire OverseasAccounting AI
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaFull-TimeStaff
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Job Details
- Languages
- Clear, polite written English for client requests and review responses
- Experience
- 0 to 2 years in an accounting practice or finance team including completed articles or a learnership in progress
- Required Skills
- Microsoft Excel
Requirements
- 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 month-end experience, including transaction capture, bank reconciliations, journals, and management reports.
- Working knowledge of South African VAT, PAYE, SDL, and UIF, including EMP201 and VAT201 returns.
- Confident with double-entry accounting and able to post journals and explain why a bank reconciliation does not balance.
- Strong Excel skills, including lookups, pivot tables, and cleaning CSV files with irregular layouts.
- 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 their output.
- Detail-oriented and deadline-driven, with awareness that tax dates and payday do not move.
Responsibilities
- Check payroll instructions, process payroll, confirm tax payment dates, and prepare EMP201 returns and payments.
- Review clients' monthly information packs for completeness and correct-period records.
- Capture and code bank and card transactions and post stock, depreciation, payroll, creditor, and debtor journals.
- Reconcile bank and card accounts to statements and maintain loan and owner's loan schedules.
- Draft monthly management reports with income statements, balance sheets, gross profit analysis, and written commentary.
- Prepare VAT workings and VAT201 returns every second month and prepare payments.
- Resolve AI partner review notes, save final versions, and close each month.
- Request missing or unclear records from simulated client management and bookkeepers, and flag turnover above the VAT registration threshold for unregistered clients.
- Document accounting steps, decisions, and judgments; design and refine workflows for the AI system.
- Test AI outputs against your work, identify errors, and use sound judgment to check and challenge model output.
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