Are you passionate about accounting and enjoy working with clients directly?
We are a fun group of passionate individualss who are who focused on helping entrepreneurs succeed! We help hundreds of the top small businesses in Africa with their accounting and tax so that they can stay focused on building their companies. And our clients love working with us because we are anything but a traditionalaccounting firm.
If you’re a persuasive communicatorwith a passion for Accounting, continuous improvement, and teamwork, we’d love to meet you!
What we expect from you
- Support bookkeeping and tax services, as well as special projects, to our clients and provide internal accounting solutions as needed.
- Manage client communications via phone, email, chat, and more.
- Advocate for our client’s needs; you’re the one with a finger on the pulse.
- Answer or direct accounting-related questions to support our clients through all the challenges they face as they grow their businesses.
What you will be doing day to day
- Check and verify source documents such as invoices, receipts, computer printouts.
- Allocate and post financial transaction details to software.
- Transfer data to general ledger.
- Reconcile and balance all accounts.
- Draw up financial statements (trial balance, income statement, balance sheet).
- Collate and analyze account data and generate financial reports.
- Track and maintain inventory records.
- Maintain internal control systems.
- Manage accounts payable and accounts receivable
- Prepare checks, payments and bank deposits.
- Prepare and process payroll.
- Comply with relevant reporting requirements.
- Calculate and prepare tax payments.
- Prepare and pay social security and pensions.
- Contribute to financial audits of clients.
- Maintain complete filing system to support financial records.
Desired Skills and Experience
- Strong communication skills (written and verbal).
- A passion for working with clients-- helping them succeed, and building strong and long-lasting relationships with them.
- Working knowledge of cloud-based accounting software (Quickbooks, Xero, Zohobooks).
- Familiarity with modern work tools like Atlassia, Click-up, Slack, Hubdoc, Google Drive etc.
- Great listening skills, honed-in to figure out how you can best support clients while also collecting important feedback to help guide the executive team
- Meticulous attention to detail and ability to stay extremely organized in a crazy-fast moving environment
- Strong research skills to figure out answers to questions you don’t already know.
- Phenomenal teamwork skills! We are a team through-and-through, and our success is entirely dependent on working together
Requirements
- Minimum of 2 years of accounting and/or bookkeeping experience.
- Bachelor's degree preferred.
- Working knowledge of accounting theory and principles.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong client-facing or communication skills required.
Benefits
- Life Insurance (Basic).
- Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays).
- Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity).
- Work From Home.