The Adonis Musati Project (AMP) Recent Employment Opportunity

The Adonis Musati Project (AMP) is an NGO based in Wynberg working with refugees and asylum seekers.

Job Title: Financial Accountant
Location: Cape Town

Reports to: Finance Manager

Responsiblities:

• Prepare, verify, and process invoices and coding payment documents in accordance with funder/donor requirements.
• Full responsibility for accounts to trial balance level
• End of month trial balance review and sign off including ad hoc journal entries
• Review of all transactions captured by bookkeeper to ensure accuracy and correct donor allocation
• Donor management – allocating expenses to donors accurately, managing donor budgets and updating regularly
• Petty cash and operational advance disbursement and reconciliation.
• Process payments timeously and accurately through Standard Bank Business Online and Standard Bank Instant Money adhering to funder bank mandates
• Responsible for all tax matters – PAYE, UIF, VAT, COIDA and Income Tax
• Full payroll function from recording travel expenses and other ad hoc items to preparing payslips, making salary payments and monthly reporting to regulatory authorities
• Assist with preparation of management, donor and board reports and ad hoc analysis.
• Maintain finance files to ensure that they are audit ready – for funders and external auditors.
• Coordinating annual audit, liaising with auditors and audit preparation

Requirements:

• Relevant BCom or similar accounting qualification
• Minimum 5 years experience in an accounting role
• Experience and knowledge of working with donor funds will be an advantage
• Knowledge of accounting software packages essential (SAGE One an advantage)
• Advanced Excel skills required
• Sound understanding of VAT, PAYE and company statutory requirements
• Attention to detail, organised and accurate
• Ability to work independently but be a teamplayer, to take initiative and to manage multiple tasks and projects at a time
• Eager and willing to add to their knowledge base and skills
• Willingness to embrace the organisations culture and ethos

To apply

Please email your CV to [email protected] – Please put ‘Financial Accountant’ as the subject for your application.

When applying please put your intro / cover letter in the body of the email and include the following information:

• Why you would be interested in this role
• Current salary or salary expectation
• Notice period

Your application will not be considered if any of the above information is missing. Should you not receive a response within 2 weeks of submitting your application, please accept it as unsuccessful.

Application Deadline: Saturday, 24 August, 2019