Job Description

Purpose:Reporting to the Chief Finance Officer, the purpose of this role is to manage the day-to- day operational requirements of the finance department by ensuring effective, secure processes and appropriate staff engagement. Responsibilities include the overseeing of the bank and cash, accounts payable, accounts receivable and accounting and reporting functions resulting in accurate, relevant, and timeous reporting.This is a 4-5 months fixed-term contract position

• Review and finalise Management Accounts
• Review and circulate all firm and departmental reporting
• Prepare monthly operational cashflow forecasts
• Oversee full accounting function
• Authorise changes to Chart of Accounts
• Financial Year End audit
• Complex accounting fixes, investigations as a result of billing and or accounts payable errors
• Develop, improve, and formalise accounting processes and associated policies and procedures
• Oversee Accounts payable (professional and trade creditors) and assist with complex vendor situations

• reconciliations
• Oversee Accounts Receivable function
• Oversee the Bank & Cash function including assisting with payment approvals
• Oversee the accounting of Client Trust Funds
• Ensure old trust amounts are validated and refunded

• Ensure unidentified trust amounts are identified within 2 weeks of receipt
• Ensure trust creditors and trust funds are reconciled monthly with zero errors
• Ensure trust interest is reconciled and paid to the LPC monthly
• Manage the Task Based Billing management (by matter)

• Maintain matter plans and tasks
• Maintain matter budgets
• Monthly budget versus actual reporting at matter level
• Monitor monthly reports to highlight anomalies within the actual expenditure and budget e.g.
• For specific areas of business

• Monthly 3P cashflow forecast
• Monthly forecast reports on 3P debtors
• Matter Fee profitability reporting (to be developed)
• Salary Reconciliations
• Collate and review month end reconciliation files
• Annual budget preparation
• Preparation of partner salaries
• FICA, FATCA and POPI compliance
• Ensure continuous Tax Compliance
• Assist with BBBEE audit
• Vendor, client, and matter record management

• Monthly monitoring of inactive matters
• Ensure inactive clients and vendors are closed after 3 years
• Ensure bank beneficiaries are deleted after 3 years
• Archive management
• Commissioner of Oath

• CA(SA)/CIMA/ACCA
• Solid Financial Management experience
• Staff management experience
• Advanced MS Excel
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to work independently, accurately and use initiative
• Strong leadership skills
• Excellent ability to communicate both writing and verbally

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