Job Description

• Our established client in the upper highway area is seeking a Chartered Accountant (CA(SA)) to join their busy accounting practice. The successful candidate will primarily service a key property client portfolio consisting of multiple entities.
• This role offers the opportunity to work in a professional accounting environment while focusing on a complex, fast-growing property group. 

Key Responsibilities:

General Accounting & Financial Management

• Manage full accounting functions for a property client portfolio, including other multiple entities.
• Prepare and maintain monthly management accounts for each entity.
• Perform monthly journal entries, reconciliations, and intercompany eliminations.
• Oversee and produce group consolidated management accounts and cash flow statements.
• Prepare year-end financial statements in accordance with IFRS and assist with the annual audit process.

Taxation & Compliance

• Manage VAT calculations, submissions, and reconciliations across the group.
• Oversee income tax and provisional tax computations and submissions.
• Ensure full compliance with statutory reporting requirements.
• Registration as a tax practitioner is advantageous.

Advisory & Support

• Provide financial insights, trend analysis, and recommendations to support property investment decisions.
• Collaborate with accounting partners and client directors to ensure accurate and timely financial information.
• Support system improvements, process automation, and consistency in reporting across client entities.

Requirements:

• CA(SA) qualification (essential).
• Minimum 3-5 years post-articles experience, ideally in property, investment, or multi-entity group structures.
• Excellent understanding of IFRS, group consolidations, and intercompany accounting.
• Advanced Excel and strong working knowledge of accounting systems such as Xero, Sage, or QuickBooks.
• Proven ability to manage multiple entities, deadlines, and reporting obligations simultaneously.
• Strong analytical, communication, and organisational skills.
• Knowledge of casework working papers is advantageous.