Senior Accountant - 3 Months Contract CA (SA)

Johannesburg
Salary: Market Related
Job Type: Contract
Sectors: Accounting Retail
Reference: 173052

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Employer: AVI Limited

An exciting opportunity exists for a SENIOR ACCOUNTANT- 3 month FTC at SPITZ in Bryanston, Johannesburg. The purpose of the role is to assist with budgeting, forecasts, month end and year end reporting.

Line Manager: Senior Financial Manager

Job Specification:

Ensuring accurate and timeous financial reporting

1. Prepare and process all month-end journals and ensure GL closes in specified time

Reconcile Balance Sheet
Ensuring that expenses are allocated correctly, and are reallocated where necessary
Ensuring balances on Balance Sheet recons are accurately and timeously recorded, keeping in line with principles of IFRS
Differences/reconciling items are followed up, investigated and cleared, leaving minimal outstanding items
Prepare the income tax calculation (provisional and annual) per AVI template and in accordance with Tax Act

2. Prepare accurate and timeous financial reporting to AVI (Day 4 Early Estimate, Day 8 Monthly Pack, Budget, Forecast, and year-end additional reporting)

Ensure all reporting to AVI is accurate and complete and submitted timeously per the AVI

3. Prepare and submit statutory obligations and External reports: Vat Return (Monthly), Stats SA (Monthly/Quarterly), Tax Annual Return

Ensure the VAT and Annual Income returns are submitted accurately and timeously within the rules as defined by SARS
Avoid interest and
Ensure we deliver as required by StatsSA Turnover reporting as defined by the required format set out by StatsSA
Ensured we comply with legislated requirements from government departments

4. Confirm validity and accuracy of local and foreign payments and release thereof

Review the accuracy and validity of payments before release. Ensure released before Bank cut-off times

5. External Audit

Assist with external audit requests and resolve any issues/findings timeously in order to improve our internal control environment

6. Ad Hoc Projects- Finance related

Minimum Qualifications and Experience:

Newly qualified Qualified CA (SA)
Articles completed at one of the Big 4 Audit firms highly advantageous

Additional Requirements:

Accounting Standards (IFRS)
SAP
Knowledge of financial processes and systems of internal control
Microsoft Excel

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About AVI Limited

AVI LIMITED is home to many of South Africa’s leading and best-loved brands. Listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in the Food Products sector, AVI’s extensive brand portfolio includes more than 50 brands. Our single-minded purpose is our brands growth and development. Our brands span a range of categories including: hot beverages, sweet and savoury biscuits and snacks, frozen convenience foods, out-of-home ranges, personal care products, cosmetics, shoes, accessories, and fashion apparel.

AVI’s brands have grown into great South African favourites including: Five Roses, Freshpak, House of Coffees, Frisco, Koffiehuis and Ellis Brown in the Beverages category; Bakers, Pyotts, Willards and Provita in the Biscuits and Snacks category; I&J in the Frozen Foods category; as well as Ciro, Lavazza and Douwe Egberts Cafitesse for the Out Of Home market. Our beauty and personal care brands include Yardley, Lentheric and Coty Great international and local Fashion Brands in the AVI stable include Spitz, Carvela, Kurt Geiger, Lacoste, Gant and Green Cross Shoes. We have a well-developed shared services structure spanning: International, IT, Finance, Logistics, Marketing, Procurement and Field Marketing that allows us to take advantage of our scale.

AVI’s brands are a household name in South Africa and growing every day.