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SUMMARY:

A reputable and growing business is looking for a detail-oriented and proactive

Accountant (Financial Services)

Recruiter:

Network Recruitment

Job Ref:

NFR006823/Angie

Date posted:

Friday, June 27, 2025

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

SUMMARY:

A reputable and growing business is looking for a detail-oriented and proactive Accountant , with strong tax experience, to join their finance team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for the full accounting function, tax compliance, and supporting the business with accurate financial reporting and analysis. This role is ideal for someone with a solid foundation in accounting, paired with a deep understanding of tax legislation and requirements, who is eager to grow in a fast-paced and professional environment.

POSITION INFO:

Key Responsibilities:

• Prepare monthly management accounts and financial statements
• Handle VAT, PAYE, and other statutory submissions
• Prepare and submit corporate income tax returns (ITR14)
• Assist with tax planning and ensure compliance with current tax legislation
• Maintain accurate general ledger accounts and perform reconciliations
• Prepare audit packs and liaise with external Auditors during audits
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow reporting
• Assist with SARS correspondence and tax queries
• Ensure that all financial and tax records are maintained in compliance with the relevant regulations
• Provide support on ad hoc finance and tax projects as needed
  
  

• BCom Accounting or similar qualification (SAIPA/SAICA articles advantageous)
• Minimum 3–5 years accounting experience with a strong focus on tax
• Solid knowledge of South African tax laws and regulations
• Experience preparing and submitting SARS tax returns
• Proficient in accounting software (e.g., Xero, Sage, CaseWare, or similar)
• Strong Excel skills and high attention to detail
• Deadline-driven, with good problem-solving skills and initiative
  
  

• Experience with trusts or group structures
• Working knowledge of eFiling and related SARS platforms
• Exposure to IFRS or IFRS for SMEs
  
  

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Accounting/Auditing and Finance
• Industries Advertising Services

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• ✔️ Completed articles (SAICA or SAIPA)
• âœï¸ Experience in Financial Services is essential (Banking, Insurance, Investment, Asset Management, etc.)
• ✔¸ S ong technical accounting, reporting, or regulatory knowledge
• ✠¸mbitious, detail-oriented professionals with a passion for excellence

• Monthly accounting and reporting, including bank reconciliations
• Preparation of CEO reports and month-end packs
• Accurate calculation and processing of commission and remuneration (weekly and monthly)
• Payment submissions and ensuring timeous payouts to agents and intermediaries
• Resolving payroll-related queries from sales teams
• Validating data from the policy administration system and checking commission accuracy
• Supporting the Operational Finance Manager on key deliverables

• Working with numbers and financial systems
• Supporting internal and external stakeholders
• Solving payment or payroll queries
• Maintaining high accuracy and tight deadlines
• Continuously learning and keeping up with industry regulations

• 3-year relevant tertiary qualification (Diploma or Degree preferred)
• 1-5 years' experience in accounting, commissions or payroll admin
• Strong Excel skills and experience with accounting systems (Dynamics 365 preferred)
• Experience in financial services or insurance will be highly advantageous
• Exposure to intermediary commission structures a plus

What Youll Do:

• Manage warm leads and qualify client needs across services like policy encashments, tax emigration, forex, and more.
• Conduct virtual consultations and deliver tailored or scripted guidance (depending on role).
• Drive the full sales cycle, from initial contact to closing, with compliance front of mind.
• Collaborate closely with internal teams to ensure seamless service delivery.
• Maintain accurate client records via CRM tools (Salesforce or similar).

• Tertiary qualification in Finance, Commerce, Sales or related field
• Strong knowledge of South African tax law, exchange control regulations, and expat financial needs.
• RE5 / RE1 certification
• 2+ years experience in financial services, sales, or expat support preferred.
• Empathy, professionalism, active listening, and a consultative sales mindset.
• Comfortable with video calls, spreadsheets, and guiding clients through compliance steps.

• Execution of the strategy through developing new business opportunities to generate sales
• Operational result management for Financial Services
• Custodian of Marketing requirements for Financial Services products
• Relationship Management with Internal and External Stakeholders
• Budget management for Financial Services products
• Leadership

• Relevant Diploma or Degree is required (B. Comm, B.A. - with commercial subjects).
• 5+ Years experience in a financial services role
• Computer Literacy (MS Office, Excel and Google Workspace)
• Knowledge of, and compliance with, legislation related to financial services products
• Financial Acumen
• Project management
• Relationship management
• Process management
• Excellent time management and prioritisation abilities
• Relevant product knowledge
• Research capability
• Competencies: Negotiating, Results Oriented, Performing under pressure, Commercial Drive, Vitality, Client Focus, Analysing and forming opinions and Innovating

We’re looking for a dynamic and strategic individual to deliver the PEPmoney strategy and boost the profitability of our portfolio with focus on our Financial Services Products. In this role, you'll not only drive business growth but also ensure that we consistently exceed our customers’ expectations.

Key Responsibilities 

• Execution of PEPmoney strategy through developing new business opportunities to generate sales 

• Operational result management for PEPmoney Financial Services

• Custodian of Marketing requirements for PEPmoney Financial Services products

• Relationship Management with Internal and External Stakeholders

• PEPmoney budget management for FS products

• Leadership

Required Knowledge, Skills and Competencies 

• Relevant Diploma or Degree is required (B. Comm, B.A. - with commercial subjects).

• 5+ Years experience in a financial services role

• Computer Literacy (MS Office, Excel and Google Workspace)

• Knowledge of, and compliance with,  legislation related to financial services products

• Financial Acumen

• Project management

• Relationship management 

• Process management 

• Excellent time management and prioritisation abilities.

• Relevant product knowledge; 

• Research capability

• Management experience

• Competencies: Negotiating, Results Oriented, Performing under pressure, Commercial Drive, Vitality, Client Focus, Analyzing and forming opinions and Innovating 

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced professional to take on an exciting role and make a significant impact on our business. If you have the required expertise and are looking to advance your career, we encourage you to apply.

If you do not hear from us within 4 weeks of the closing date of this position, please regard your application as being unsuccessful.  

Electrum is the next-generation payments technology company that provides cloud-native software to optimize the processing of financial transactions. Since 2012, we have established ourselves as a respected payments technology partner through our deep expertise and track record in delivering trusted enterprise-grade payments solutions.

We’ve built a reputation in providing solutions for high-volume, low-value payment schemes and services that enable our clients to deliver to their customers at scale. We love that the projects we work on touch the lives of millions of South Africans daily, making a real difference.

We hire the best of the best and we offer great opportunities for personal growth and career progression.

We are growing a world-class partnerships team to support the expansion of our enterprise SaaS offering, and we’re looking for an Account Executive to join us to cultivate client relationships, articulate the return on their investment, and advance our strategic account footprint. The ideal candidate must be able to effectively articulate and position Electrum in the minds of the CIO, ensuring our value proposition aligns with their strategic objectives.

Having onboarded multiple new enterprise accounts in the last two years, coupled with the continuous expansion of our existing accounts, we are achieving significant growth. In this role, you will navigate complex B2B sales cycles within the financial services landscape to strategically grow our Payments SaaS offering at tier-one banks and other financial services enterprises.

Your responsibility will involve creating new revenue streams in payments by acquiring targeted new clients while also expanding our existing enterprise accounts. Our head office is located in Cape Town, but this position will primarily serve clients, most of whom are banks based in Johannesburg. You will be part of our expanding Sales and Marketing team, which offers local and international networking and travel opportunities. Electrum has ambitious long-term goals, supported by training and mentorship to develop effective teams, paving the way for excellent career opportunities.

• Five to ten years of enterprise sales experience within the payments industry; or five to ten years working inside the payments landscape in a client-facing role, such as a business analyst or product manager.
• Proven track record of closing or crafting complex deals and retiring targets in a software (or technology) field.
• Experience dealing with enterprise clients, particularly within tier 1 bank and financial services environments.
• An understanding of business practices backed by a relevant university degree.
• Ability to position technical solutions in a business context.
• Ability to navigate complex sales cycles.
• Proven negotiation experience.
• Going the extra mile for your clients while ensuring the sustainability of the partnership.
• Collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, a clear sense of what it means to be part of a team, and a team of teams.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Past experience working with or within a Tier 1 bank.
• Ability to establish trust and rapport with client personas through active listening, empathy, integrity, and diplomacy.
• Referencable experience partnering with banks and other financial services enterprises.

• Build and nurture key client relationships with a multitude of personas.
• Create account and opportunity plans for the short, medium, and long-term cross-sell and upsell of products that will expand Electrum’s partnership with customers, offering additional value for both parties.
• Identify challenges and opportunities our clients and prospects are facing that can be solved with our products and solutions.
• Work with the pre-sales team to help articulate and close the technical sale.
• Work with marketing to identify account-based marketing campaigns to help influence deals through thought leadership content.
• Sales management, including negotiating contracts and agreements, pipeline and database health.
• Contribute to the sales tools that will help you through the buying and sales process, such as buyer journey mapping, personas, use cases, demos, business cases, etc.
• Communicate month, quarter, annual, and longer-term objectives with Electrum’s internal team and external clients.

• Continue your six-month plan and include the following:
• Build and close a new business pipeline, by understanding your prospect’s business objectives and Electrum’s product fit while navigating the complexities of the enterprise buying and sales process.
• Work with the account executive to research addressable markets and identify new growth opportunities by understanding market size, key target characteristics, persona pain points, and product propositions.
• Work with the product team to define development opportunities for new products aligned to our core solutions.
• Work with marketing to identify outbound campaigns, develop collateral, blogs, case studies, etc., to help advance sales, generate inbound leads, or influence deals.

We have created a high-performance culture where you can expect the following:

• Career growth - Delivering world-class financial services software products in a fast-paced company is not easy and takes a considerable amount of effort. But in return for your effort, you'll get hands-on experience working on products used by millions of people and a high-quality work experience that will accelerate your career faster than anywhere else.
• Transparency - We openly discuss strategy, finances, salaries, and other major decisions.
• Autonomy - We know you'll be able to make good decisions if you have good information, and we trust you.
• Shared Vision - You'll be able to shape a vision you can believe in - on how to build the future of financial services.
• Work-life balance - You know when your brain has switched off for the day, and you need to go for a hike or coffee shop with a view, but you also know when your team needs help to bring that strategic deliverable home. At Electrum, you will be expected to know when you deserve that time out and when you need to knuckle down and get the work done.

• These are a few practical ways we practice the culture we are so proud of:
• Flexible work hours.
• Our Cape Town offices offer a fully-stocked kitchen with daily lunch provided.
• Our Johannesburg-based staff have access to Workshop17 facilities.
• Team socializing like hikes, getaways, and dinners.

A generous leave policy, starting at 20 days per year. If this sounds like a role and place where you can spread your wings, please apply now.

We have created a safe, transparent environment where:

• We know mistakes happen, and that’s okay. We even have a three-step approach to dealing with them:

1. Tell everyone about it.
2. Fix the mistake.
3. Tell everyone about the solution.

• You are responsible for your actions – both the successes and the failures.
• We talk openly about salaries and bonuses. At Electrum, we believe it’s evident why some people earn more and others a bit less. It’s like being on a sports team where salaries are widely known.

Join to apply for the Manager – Financial Services Advisory role at BDO South Africa

Join to apply for the Manager – Financial Services Advisory role at BDO South Africa

At BDO, we believe in investing in our people to help them grow, both professionally and personally. The foundation of our business is strong relationship, with colleagues, clients and other stakeholders and we work hard every day to make this a reality. Our commitment is to create unlimited growth by giving our people continuous opportunities.

BDO’s global organisation extends across 167 countries and territories, with 88,120 people working out of 1,617 offices - and we’re all working towards one goal: to provide our clients with exceptional service. Our firms across the organisation cooperate closely and comply with consistent operating principles and quality standards.

BDO South Africa has vacancies for Managers to join our Financial Services Advisory Division in our Johannesburg Offices.

The Manager manages work assignments to completion within the allocated time frame and to an appropriate standard (quality). In addition to managing client engagements, the Manager should be able to effectively mentor and coach team members, while having a strong focus on business development and internal initiatives.

Main Duties And Responsibilities

• Take ownership of, and manages work assignments to completion within the allocated time frame and to an appropriate standard (quality), through:
• proper planning before the assignment,
• appropriate coaching during the assignment,
• attention to quality of the deliverable and the supporting documentation, adequately completing provisions,
• managing the WIP appropriately and within budget, where applicable, billing the engagement, and
• closing the engagement.

• Is an effective project manager
• Track any delays and overruns and raises these at the relevant partner catch-ups and client meetings. Get immediate and timely agreement from the client to overruns.
• Reviews written documents to ensure that they are organised, well-written, referenced and easy to follow.
• Establish effective working relationships directly with key clients and broader BDO stakeholders.
• Bring industry insights and recommendations to the client during client discussions. Ensures value-added delivery to the client driving sustainability of client relationship and work allocation
• Coordinate and lead meetings with the key client stakeholders and internal senior stakeholders in the absence of the partner.
• Assess and manage project risks, processes, and controls.
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of the client’s processes and methodologies, including the reviews of process flows.
• Develops a more strategic view of the business and participates in strategic initiatives through the coaching of the partners.
• Able to lead initiatives from commencement to conclusion with minimal coaching and mentoring. Understands when to request input or assistance.
• Takes on operational role/s within the business, in addition to allocated client assignments
• Participate in proposal development as and when required
• Participate in training efforts
  
  

• Bcom Internal Audit
• Bcom Information Systems/Informatics
• Bsc Computer Science
• CISA, CA(SA) or CRISC
  
  

• 5 to 6 years of IT Audit Experience
• Knowledge of General IT Controls, Application Controls, Data Analytics, ISAE 3402 reviews, Business process analysis
  
  

• General IT Controls, Application Controls, Data Analytics, ISAE 3402 reviews, Business process analysis
  
  

• Effective Communication Skills, both written and verbal.
• Problem-solving techniques and effective conflict management skills.
• People management skills
• Ability to engage with top management and clients.
• Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships.
• Mentoring and coaching skills
  
  

• Relationships and Collaboration
• Exceptional Client Service
• Business Growth
• Engaging people
• Leadership
• Quality, Risk management and Operational performance
  
  

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Other
• Industries Accounting

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At BDO, we believe in investing in our people to help them grow, both professionally and personally. The foundation of our business is strong relationship, with colleagues, clients and other stakeholders and we work hard every day to make this a reality. Our commitment is to create unlimited growth by giving our people continuous opportunities.

BDO’s global organisation extends across 167 countries and territories, with 88,120 people working out of 1,617 offices – and we’re all working towards one goal : to provide our clients with exceptional service. Our firms across the organisation cooperate closely and comply with consistent operating principles and quality standards.

BDO South Africa has vacancies for Managers to join our Financial Services Advisory Division in our Johannesburg Offices.

The Manager manages work assignments to completion within the allocated time frame and to an appropriate standard (quality). In addition to managing client engagements, the Manager should be able to effectively mentor and coach team members, while having a strong focus on business development and internal initiatives.

Main Duties and Responsibilities :

• Take ownership of, and manages work assignments to completion within the allocated time frame and to an appropriate standard (quality), through :
• proper planning before the assignment,
• appropriate coaching during the assignment,
• attention to quality of the deliverable and the supporting documentation, adequately completing provisions,
• managing the WIP appropriately and within budget, where applicable, billing the engagement, and
• closing the engagement.
• Is an effective project manager
• Track any delays and overruns and raises these at the relevant partner catch-ups and client meetings. Get immediate and timely agreement from the client to overruns.
• Reviews written documents to ensure that they are organised, well-written, referenced and easy to follow.
• Establish effective working relationships directly with key clients and broader BDO stakeholders.
• Bring industry insights and recommendations to the client during client discussions. Ensures value-added delivery to the client driving sustainability of client relationship and work allocation
• Coordinate and lead meetings with the key client stakeholders and internal senior stakeholders in the absence of the partner.
• Assess and manage project risks, processes, and controls.
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of the client’s processes and methodologies, including the reviews of process flows.
• Develops a more strategic view of the business and participates in strategic initiatives through the coaching of the partners.
• Able to lead initiatives from commencement to conclusion with minimal coaching and mentoring. Understands when to request input or assistance.
• Takes on operational role / s within the business, in addition to allocated client assignments
• Participate in proposal development as and when required
• Participate in training efforts