Trainee Accountant - Kimberley

Forming part of a team providing accounting, tax and general advisory services to a client portfolio. This entails assisting a manager in the fields of accounting and regulatory requirements with a specific focus on relationships with clients to guarantee and surpass their expectations of service delivery Key Responsibilities ACCOUTING Process transactions from source documents onto Xero Software Perform general ledger reconciliations and produce a trial balance Prepare and maintain fixed asset registers Perform tax and deferred tax computations Other ad-hoc accounting relating tasks VAT SUBMISSIONS Populates VAT returns and reconciliations and submits to Manager for review File returns and notify clients to make payments Follow-up with client to ensure payments were made FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Compiles annual financial statements based on appropriate accounting standards GENERAL ADMINISTRATION Monitors work-in-progress of clients Attends to queries from SARS and clients Completed Matric (with accounting and mathematics as a subject) with university exemptions Enrolled in a BCom degree and/or equivalent accounting degree with the intention of completing SAIPA articles or BCom degree and/or equivalent accounting degree, ready to commence with SAIPA Articles Xero Dext/Hubdoc Strong work ethic and willing to learn. Afrikaans is essential (The client base consists mainly of farmers in the Northern Cape. Only Afrikaans speaking candidates will be considered. No exceptions