Are you completing your Articles in December? Have you secured a role for the New Year? Ready and available to start in January 2025?

A global brand is needing the assistance of a Accountant for a 7 month contract. It is a great opportunity to expose yourself to strong experience in the commercial and manufacturing environment. 

Responsibilities: 

• Accurate and timeous financial reporting to the Group
• Verify accounting procedures comply with accounting policies and International Accounting standards
• Prepare supporting documents for tax returns VAT, PAYE, Income tax, SARB and STATS SA for all companies
• Manage the treasury group requirements and reporting
• Prepare exchange control applications needed for foreign payments
• Prepare weekly and monthly cashflow
• Maintain fixed assets register
• Ensure reconciliations done on all general ledger balance sheet accounts
• Implement and maintain strict adherence to Group internal controls policy
• Liaise with internal and external auditors, ensure all group audit issues are addressed and internal controls monitored
• Assist with external audit requirements and prepare audit samples
• Prepare journals for revaluation and reclassification of local and foreign debtors and creditors across all companies
• Check payment batches for local and foreign creditors
• Assist with month-end tasks and internal and external submissions
• Ad hoc tasks as and when required

• Support the submission of various finance related returns for all entities within the Group
• Assist with month-end and/or year-end general ledger journals
• Support client facing staff, ensuring customer accounts agree with external records
• Support with client, intercompany and interbranch invoices
• Support complete, accurate and timely vendor reconciliation submissions
• Support with the improvement and training of finance staff
• Support compliance of international Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and other reporting legislation
• Provide overview of accounting systems and processes to auditors
• Prepare audit working papers for year-end audit
• Ensure that audit adjustments are processed accurately and timeously
• Support the Finance Director: Operations with change management and transition activities

Well-respected investment management team seeks a Tax & Corporate Actions Assistant Manager to join their operations team. Ideal candidates will be CA(SA) qualified with relevant tax and corporate actions experience within financial services. Great team and working environment. 

Responsibilities: 

• Review completeness and accuracy of client tax liabilities 
• Ensure that team complies with  tax reporting, filing and related requirements
• Ensure tax submissions are accurate and submitted timeously
• Review and analyse tax calculations done by external service providers for institutional clients (Capital Gains Tax, Interest Withholding Tax (IWT), Capital Gains Tax and Dividend Withholding Tax (DWT) calculations)
• Review assessments of Funds in-country tax exposure
• Ensure institutional funds are correctly registered for tax, liaise with in-country tax authorities and specialists, ensure registration is completed and ongoing filing requirements are adhered to
• Review of Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) and Common Reporting Standard (CRS) submissions for applicable clients
• Review client and portfolio tax implications of all/complex corporate events
• Review tax implications and tax reporting related to CIS income distributions and classifications
• Ensure changes to applicable tax legislation (local and foreign) are identified, communicated, considered and actioned
• Manage all institutional tax projects and/or system changes pertaining to tax
• Identify and assess the impact of corporate actions on portfolio holdings and valuations and ensure corporate actions is accurately recorded
• Understand and ensure tax and accounting impact of all corporate actions are all accounted for correctly
• Manage proxy voting and elective events and signing off instructions to custodians
• Manage Tax Reclaims process
• Manage clean audit on the ISAE tax controls
• Identify gaps and areas of improvement in current processes
• Reviewing existing processes, validations and reports to ensure most efficient manner possible
• Build and maintain effective stakeholder relationships, internally and externally
• Represent the company at industry related tax committees
• Coordinate and drive current corporate action and operational tax  initiatives, projects and testing within the team

A client-centric Investment Management team sees a Wealth Manager Assistant to join their team. Lovely, stable and experienced team based in the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town.

You’ll be providing support, such as client liaison, ensuring internal teams are actioning investment payments or investments are managed on time, secretarial support and dealing with investment administration instructions, compliance requirements etc. with the focus largely on more complex investment advisory, private portfolios, offshore investments etc.

Responsibilities: 

• Put together necessary documents for administration of local and offshore investment instructions, include redemptions and switches, and share dealing. Ensure necessary authority received, prepare, and capture the same on internal systems (Fundamental, and Climan/ CRM system)
• Daily/ monthly EFT payments to and on behalf of clients, include all verifications prepare and capture of same on internal systems (CRM)
• Evaluate debit balances and assist Trust Officer to make corrections
• Prepare client packs, and onboarding of new clients, responsible for all clients take on documents, and load on internal systems
• Quarterly invoices for ad hoc fees
• Prepare trust admin requirements, and related payments 
• Act as client liaison respond and resolve queries timeously 
• Manage electronic and hard copy filing of investment admin, and advisory record keeping, ensure that all investment and payment instructions are compliant
• Liaise with internal investment admin and support departments
• Put together monthly and quarterly client reports and tax documents per client
• Co-ordinate and plan client events, logistics, invitations, venue, and client co-ordination

My client has an opportunity available for an experienced Group Finance Treasury Manager. You will drive compliance, innovation, and financial strategy across the Group divisions. You will need to be a detail-oriented leader with strong analytical, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills to ensure sustainable growth across company divisions. If you're proactive, solutions-driven, and thrive in a fast-paced environment, apply today!

• Ensure group-wide exchange control compliance
• Oversee the compilation and submission of exchange control applications
• Support group strategy
• Ensure alignment with legal, tax, and accounting functions across the group
• Manage general banking facility agreements and review documentation
• Drive investment optimization considering risks and market conditions
• Support the daily cash management and forex trading function
• Prepare and present quarterly Treasury and Finance reports
• Manage Treasury systems
• Drive process optimisation and system standardisation
• Drive fluctuations and project consultation on payment terms and liquidity
• Oversee the external audit process across performance areas
• Assist Group Finance Executive and Finance & Treasury teams with ad-hoc projects

My client is a leading Wealth Manager in South Africa and is seeking a Senior Paraplanner to join their team in Sandton. Do you have a BCom / CFP, with relevant experience in the Wealth Space, this might be just what you are looking for!

Responsibilities:

This is an exciting opportunity for a SAIPA / SAICA articled individual to be involved in the finance and operations of this client that distributes high end liquor.

• Manage the Accounts Department for the Financial Director, including 6 clerks and assist the Retail Financial Accountant
• Oversee all financial aspects of the holding companies
• Review all payments, wages and head office salaries for two companies
• Pass journals, VAT recon, GL/payroll system recon, reconcile TB, prepare management
• accounts, analyse and present to the directors
• Prepare the annual budget
• Evaluate risk vs cost with insurance broker and present to directors
• Oversee COIDA, Employment Equity/SDL, EMP501’s/IRP5’s, CIPC submissions
• Prepare management accounts and present to the directors
• Review bank statements as a first task and address any unexplained movements
• Fund the bank accounts for debit orders
• Review contracts and present key pitfalls and risks to the FD
• Modernise the accounts dept, develop electronic reports
• Monitor slow debtors and push collections while maintaining good customer relationships
• Manage the debtor cover insurance