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MGI Bass Gordon Recruitment 2023/2024
Applications are invited from interested and suitably qualified candidates for MGI Bass Gordon Recruitment 2023/2024.
MGI Bass Gordon is a member of MGI Worldwide, a Top 20 international accounting network of independent audit, tax, and accounting firms.
We are recruiting to fill the following position below:
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Job Title: Accountant (SAIPA)
Introduction
MGI Bass Gordon is an entrepreneurial professional services firm in the heart of Cape Town. We are focused on meeting the need of our clients with one consolidated team of advisors and providing close, personal service through active involvement. We make it our business to understand our client’s business and the opportunities and challenges before them to provide them with a holistic service offering.
We are on the lookout to recruit an Accountant (SAIPA) to join our awesome team.
Our Values: Client Centric, Trust, Service Excellence, and Positive Attitude
Our values permeate through everything that we do – how we treat our clients, how we approach our work, and how we treat each other.
Duties & Responsibilities
Technical Performance and Financial Performance
- Have an excellent knowledge of accounting
- Manage the allocated engagements, ensuring that they are completed within the approved budget depending on the issues encountered
- Ensure that all budget overruns are communicated timeously
- Perform (where required) a compilation and accounting officers’ engagement
- Produce high-quality documents which are factual and grammatically correct
- Effective use of technology to ensure the performance of an efficient assignment
- Produce high-quality financial statements that are appropriate to the business concerned
Write-Ups
- Prepare budgets for approval by manager or partner prior to beginning work
- Capture client financial information on Xero or Caseware
- Process relevant year-end journal entries
- Prepare Trial Balance
- Prepare quality working paper file, which meets the standards of the Firm
- Draft quality annual financial statements
- Prepare all documents that are required to be signed by client, ensuring that these are in the brown cover when handing the file in for review
- Prepare an analysis of time spent to budget with detailed explanations of any deviations prior to handing in file
- Prepare draft fee note (Partner specific)
Compilations in terms of IFRS for SMEs and Accounting officers’ engagements and Trust Compilations
- Prepare budgets for approval by manager or partner prior to beginning work
- Capture client financial information on Xero or Caseware
- Prepare tax calculations
- Process relevant year-end journal entries
- Prepare Trial Balance
- Prepare quality working paper file, which meets the standards of the Firm
- Draft quality annual financial statements in accordance with the applicable accounting practice
- Prepare all documents that are required to be signed by client, ensuring that these are in brown cover when handing the file in for review
- Prepare analysis of time spent to budget with detailed explanations of any deviations prior to handing in file
- Prepare draft fee note (Partner specific)
Statutory Returns
- VAT calculations
- Completion of VAT Returns
- Ensure that these are completed and submitted timeously.
Client Service
- Gain the credibility and respect of key client personnel
- Maintain a professional attitude, be polite, tactful, friendly and approachable at all times
- Meet the deadlines for review by the partner and deliverables to the client
- Responsible for marketing our client accounting services and the growth of the division
People
- Ensure you are kept informed of progress and issues timeously
- Manage relationships within the accounting team and resolve conflict timeously
- Act as a role model for staff by creating a positive work climate, motivating staff, providing clear expectations, constructive feedback, and guidance
Desired Experience & Qualification
- SAIPA articles completed
- Relevant accounting degree
- Previous audit/accounting firm experience
- Proficient in Caseware
- 3 -5 years of relevant experience
The Ideal Candidate
You should
- Be self-motivated
- Take initiative
- Take responsibility for work done
- Be realistic about the expected delivery time of work
- Communicate problems with the workload
- Be proactive in obtaining documentation from clients when needed
- Be enthusiastic and positive about your work
- Have good communication skills
- Be cooperative towards clients and colleagues
- Be open to suggestions and constructive criticism.
How to Apply
Interested applicants should kindly visit the company website to get more details and submit the application(s).