Senior Accountant - 3 Months Contract CA (SA)
AVI Limited
Johannesburg, Gauteng
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Posted 25 February 2026 - Closing Date 09 March 2026

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Job Description

An exciting opportunity exists for a SENIOR ACCOUNTANT- 3 month FTC at SPITZ in Bryanston, Johannesburg. The purpose of the role is to assist with budgeting, forecasts, month end and year end reporting.

Line Manager: Senior Financial Manager

Job Specification:

Ensuring accurate and timeous financial reporting

1. Prepare and process all month-end journals and ensure GL closes in specified time

  • Reconcile Balance Sheet
  • Ensuring that expenses are allocated correctly, and are reallocated where necessary
  • Ensuring balances on Balance Sheet recons are accurately and timeously recorded, keeping in line with principles of IFRS
  • Differences/reconciling items are followed up, investigated and cleared, leaving minimal outstanding items
  • Prepare the income tax calculation (provisional and annual) per AVI template and in accordance with Tax Act

2. Prepare accurate and timeous financial reporting to AVI (Day 4 Early Estimate, Day 8 Monthly Pack, Budget, Forecast, and year-end additional reporting)
  • Ensure all reporting to AVI is accurate and complete and submitted timeously per the AVI

3. Prepare and submit statutory obligations and External reports: Vat Return (Monthly), Stats SA (Monthly/Quarterly), Tax Annual Return
  • Ensure the VAT and Annual Income returns are submitted accurately and timeously within the rules as defined by SARS
  • Avoid interest and
  • Ensure we deliver as required by StatsSA Turnover reporting as defined by the required format set out by StatsSA
  • Ensured we comply with legislated requirements from government departments

4. Confirm validity and accuracy of local and foreign payments and release thereof
  • Review the accuracy and validity of payments before release. Ensure released before Bank cut-off times

5. External Audit
  • Assist with external audit requests and resolve any issues/findings timeously in order to improve our internal control environment

6. Ad Hoc Projects- Finance related


Minimum Qualifications and Experience:

  • Newly qualified Qualified CA (SA)
  • Articles completed at one of the Big 4 Audit firms highly advantageous

Additional Requirements:
  • Accounting Standards (IFRS)
  • SAP
  • Knowledge of financial processes and systems of internal control
  • Microsoft Excel