197 Accounting Supervisor jobs in South Africa

About the job General Accounting Supervisor

Minimum Requirements:

• Accounting Diploma / BCom Accounting degree
• Advanced Excel skills
• Experience in leading a team
• Minimum 3 years relevant experience

• Reviewing of payments and signing off supplier account reconciliations done by Controllers
• Age analysis review & report
• Assisting team with queries
• Reconciling staff accounts and ensuring all advances are accounted for in the same month
• Assistance with VAT returns
• Assistance with the GM report
• Expensing prepaid expenses
• P&L reviews and provision journals
• Reporting on variances
• Reviewing balance sheet accounts
• Assistance with compiling expense budgets
• Assistance with audit queries
• ADHOC duties when required
• Capturing invoices
• Reconciling and payment of creditors accounts
• Provision Journals
• Forex revaluation

Our client, a nationwide leader in their industry, currently seeks an experienced Annual Accounting Supervisor.

The Person:

• B.Com / Accounting Science Graduate.
• CTA (Honours) or working towards.
• SAICA Articles completed.
• Min. 2 to 3 years supervisory and management experience in a SME accounting firm.
• Annual financial statement experience.

The Job: Reporting to the Accounting Manager:

• Ensure that client service deliverables are met.
• Act as a major point of contact within the firm for the client together with the Partner, keeping clients informed of progress in relation to all aspects of the service provided.
• Prepare job budgets and fee estimates & proposals for clients.
• Ensure that the firm’s risk management and quality control procedures are adhered to.
• Prepare and maintain a checklist of all clients under his/her portfolio, with services to be performed for each client.
• Prepare client engagement letters.
• Follow up on long outstanding debtor accounts.
• Review annual financial statement compilation engagements (annual working paper files) performed by staff, including annual financial statements IFRS and IFRS for SME, including other financial reporting frameworks.
• Various reconciliations and adjust entries to be processed when performing the compilation of annual financial statements.
• Taxation:
• Review tax returns and IT14SDs, and handle disputes with SARS, which includes attending/assisting in tax queries and dealing with SARS audits.
• Audit and independent review assignment budget planning and management.
• Ensure audit and independent review planning documentation is completed.
• Conduct full audit & independent review file reviews and related reports to ensure the relevant files are ready for sign-off.
• Facilitate the annual and consultancy meetings with client.
• Manage staff productivity, ensuring team member productivity targets are met.
• Prepare for billing of jobs, and variance analysis, for sign off by Partners.
• Manage job work in progress, and ensure write-offs are in accordance to company policy, and write-offs are explained, with action plan going forward.
• Identify areas for training, coordinate training, prepare training plan, prepare training material, and carry out training as Facilitator.
• On-the-job technical training given to Senior and Junior Accountants for accounting treatments and disclosure as well as taxation, current and deferred; research and pass on information from applicable legislation, good practice and interpretation notes to Accountants / Partners.
• Conduct performance reviews of employees, ensuring performance assessment documentation is completed in terms of the firms' policy.
• Prepare annual work plans, and revise where necessary.
• Allocate work to staff, ensuring assignments are staffed with the appropriate mix of knowledge and skills required.
• General HR duties including leave scheduling for approval by Partners.
• Meet with Partners every week on progress on jobs, work plan, issues re client and/or staff.
• Manage and attain required productivity target - Management: 40%, Chargeable 60%.

Competencies & Skills:

• Advanced Caseware/Excel/Word essential.
• SARS e-Filing knowledge.
• Pastel/Sage Online/Xero/Quickbooks/GreatSoft an added advantage.
• Ability to sustain output quality even when under pressure and flexibility of input to achieve key deadlines.
• Ability to manage many tasks at once, work against short deadlines, and remain calm and focused.
• In-depth knowledge of general accounting bookkeeping theories and practices, IFRS for SME, taxation.
• Leadership / supervisory skills.
• Effective organisational skill, time management, prioritising and forward planning practices.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Results orientated with excellent attention to detail.
• Self-motivated and proactive individual with ability to work with minimum direction, able to use own initiative in assessing priorities.
• Display exemplary personal integrity and maintain absolute respect of confidentiality.
• Ability to implement and maintain accurate record-keeping systems.
• Information gathering, problem-solving and analysis skills.

R400 000.00 per annum (cost to company) - negotiable

Our client, a nationwide leader in their industry, currently seeks an experienced Annual Accounting Supervisor.

The Person:

• B.Com / Accounting Science Graduate.
• CTA (Honours) or working towards.
• SAICA Articles completed.
• Min. 2 to 3 years supervisory and management experience in a SME accounting firm.
• Annual financial statement experience.

The Job: Reporting to the Accounting Manager:

• Ensure that client service deliverables are met.
• Act as a major point of contact within the firm for the client together with the Partner, keeping clients informed of progress in relation to all aspects of the service provided.
• Prepare job budgets and fee estimates & proposals for clients.
• Ensure that the firm’s risk management and quality control procedures are adhered to.
• Prepare and maintain a checklist of all clients under his/her portfolio, with services to be performed for each client.
• Prepare client engagement letters.
• Follow up on long outstanding debtor accounts.
• Review annual financial statement compilation engagements (annual working paper files) performed by staff, including annual financial statements IFRS and IFRS for SME, including other financial reporting frameworks.
• Various reconciliations and adjust entries to be processed when performing the compilation of annual financial statements.
• Taxation:
• Review tax returns and IT14SDs, and handle disputes with SARS, which includes attending/assisting in tax queries and dealing with SARS audits.
• Audit and independent review assignment budget planning and management.
• Ensure audit and independent review planning documentation is completed.
• Conduct full audit & independent review file reviews and related reports to ensure the relevant files are ready for sign-off.
• Facilitate the annual and consultancy meetings with client.
• Manage staff productivity, ensuring team member productivity targets are met.
• Prepare for billing of jobs, and variance analysis, for sign off by Partners.
• Manage job work in progress, and ensure write-offs are in accordance to company policy, and write-offs are explained, with action plan going forward.
• Identify areas for training, co-ordinate training, prepare training plan, preparing training material, and carry out training as Facilitator.
• On-the-job technical training given to Senior and Junior Accountants for accounting treatments and disclosure as well as taxation, current and deferred; research and pass on information from applicable legislation, good practice and interpretation notes to Accountants / Partners.
• Conduct performance reviews of employees, ensuring performance assessment documentation is completed in terms of the firms' policy.
• Prepare annual work plans, and revise where necessary.
• Allocate work to staff, ensuring assignments are staffed with the appropriate mix of knowledge and skills required.
• General HR duties including leave scheduling for approval by Partners.
• Meet with Partners every week on progress on jobs, work plan, issues re client and/or staff.
• Manage and attain required productivity target - Management: 40%, Chargeable 60%.

Competencies & Skills:

• Advanced Caseware/Excel/Word essential.
• SARS e-Filing knowledge.
• Pastel/Sage Online/Xero/Quickbooks/GreatSoft an added advantage.
• Ability to sustain output quality even when under pressure and flexibility of input to achieve key deadlines.
• Ability to manage many tasks at once, work against short deadlines, and remain calm and focused.
• In-depth knowledge of general accounting bookkeeping theories and practices, IFRS for SME, taxation.
• Leadership / supervisory skills.
• Effective organisational skill, time management, prioritising and forward planning practices.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Results orientated with excellent attention to detail.
• Self-motivated and proactive individual with ability to work with minimum direction, able to use own initiative in assessing priorities.
• Display exemplary personal integrity and maintain absolute respect of confidentiality.
• Ability to implement and maintain accurate record-keeping systems.
• Information gathering, problem-solving and analysis skills.

R400 000.00 per annum (cost to company) - negotiable

SM Xulu is looking for a supervisor for the accounting department, to assist the company with the daily running of the accounting department in the Johannesburg, Woodmead branch.

• Team supervision, coaching, performance management, training, and succession planning.
• Engaging with clients and/or business partners to develop an understanding of needs and presenting solutions to fulfill the respective needs.
• Maintaining oversight of the respective clients' business systems, processes, and procedures to ensure that the ongoing management is compliant with statutory and/or regulatory requirements.
• Pastel experience of processing journals, performing General Ledger (GL) account reconciliations while ensuring that journal entries are accurately and timely processed, preparing books of prime entry to trial balance; general ledger; customers ledger; creditors ledger.
• Updating fixed asset register for both accounting and tax purposes.
• Compilation of monthly management accounts and financial statements using CaseWare.
• Good understanding of accounting standards.
• Good understanding and application of legislations such as Companies Act, 2008; Income Tax Act, 1965; Tax Administration Act, 2011 and VAT Act, 1991.
• Compilation and submission of VAT returns, EMP returns & income tax returns using Efiling to SARS.
• Addressing SARS queries and lodging queries.
• Ensuring that VAT 201s returns reconcile with general ledger and annual financial statements.
• VAT reviews experience in local government, municipalities, and submission of claims.
• Calculation and compilation of both IT12s & IT14s returns including supporting documents and addressing any queries.
• Reconciling all balance sheet accounts including Creditors, Debtors, Bank Account to Statements, etc.
• Billing clients (issuing invoices) and following up on collections.
• Fixed assets valuation experience for either GRAP and/or IFRS.

• Qualification – B. Com Accounting.
• Completed South African Institute of Professional Accountants (SAIPA) articles.
• Accounting Honours or Post-Graduate Diploma in Advanced Accounting.
• Professional Accountant (SA) or Associate General Accountant (AGA)(SA).
• Member of a recognised accounting body such as SAICA, SAIPA and SAIBA.
• Over 6 years’ experience in an accounting environment and/or in the employment of an accounting firm.
• Auditing and Management Accounting experience.
• CaseWare and Sage Pastel software skills.

SM Xulu is looking for a supervisor for the accounting department to assist the company with the daily running of the accounting department in the Johannesburg, Woodmead branch.

• Team supervision, coaching, performance management, training, and succession planning.
• Engaging with clients and/or business partners to develop an understanding of needs and presenting solutions to fulfill the respective needs.
• Maintaining oversight of the respective clients' business systems, processes, and procedures to ensure that ongoing management is compliant with statutory and/or regulatory requirements.
• Pastel experience of processing journals, performing General Ledger (GL) account reconciliations while ensuring that journal entries are accurately and timely processed, preparing books of prime entry to trial balance; general ledger; customers ledger; creditors ledger.
• Updating fixed asset register for both accounting and tax purposes.
• Compilation of monthly management accounts and financial statements using CaseWare.
• Good understanding of accounting standards.
• Good understanding and application of legislations such as Companies Act, 2008; Income Tax Act, 1965; Tax Administration Act, 2011; and VAT Act, 1991.
• Compilation and submission of VAT returns, EMP returns & income tax returns using Efiling to SARS.
• Addressing SARS queries and lodging queries.
• Ensuring that VAT 201s returns reconcile with general ledger and annual financial statements.
• VAT reviews experience in local government, municipalities, and submission of claims.
• Calculation and compilation of both IT12s & IT14s returns including supporting documents and addressing any queries.
• Reconciling all balance sheet accounts including Creditors, Debtors, Bank Account to Statements, etc.
• Billing clients (issuing invoices) and following up on collections.
• Fixed assets valuation experience for either GRAP and/or IFRS.

• Qualification – B. Com Accounting.
• Completed South African Institute of Professional Accountants (SAIPA) articles.
• Accounting Honours or Post-Graduate Diploma in Advanced Accounting.
• Professional Accountant (SA) or Associate General Accountant AGA(SA).
• Member of a recognised accounting body such as SAICA, SAIPA, and SAIBA.
• Over 6 years’ experience in an accounting environment and/or in the employment of an accounting firm.
• Auditing and Management Accounting experience.
• CaseWare and Sage Pastel software skills.

We are looking for an experienced Accounting Supervisor (Professional Accountant) for a Renowned Accounting & Auditing Firm In Port Elizabeth.

Position Overview:

The role requires high standards in terms of service quality, technical competence and needs a confident, effective individual who can communicate across a diverse team. The successful candidate will also be responsible for building strong client relationships.

Candidates will need to deliver on standard role-related administrative tasks and strict statutory requirements.

Our firm delivers expert audit, assurance, tax, accounting, and consulting services to clients in almost every sector. 

Minimum Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in accounting (BCOM) or Advance diploma in Accounting will be advantageous

Completed a training contract/Learnership with SAICA/AGA or SAIPA

Post article experience will be advantageous

Technically competent in the following:

– Independent Reviews

– IFR’S for SME

– Taxation

– Companies Act

– IT Software including Microsoft Office and Pastel

– SAGE VIP experience will be advantageous

Duties and Responsibilities

Perform assignments from source documents to drafting of Annual Financial Statements and taking full responsibility for completion

Excellent organisational and multitasking skills

Demonstrated ability to lead and manage teams

Effective problem-solving skills

High attention to detail

Deadline driven