Accountant

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Accountant supporting comprehensive financial operations in a global life sciences organization. Overseeing activities from accounts payable to balance sheet reconciliation in a hybrid role.

Posted 6/9/2026contractSalt River • 🇿🇦 South AfricaMid-LevelSenior💰 ZAR 55,000 per monthWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ERPOracle

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Support the end-to-end accounts payable function, including accurately reviewing, coding, processing, and reconciling vendor invoices while efficiently resolving supplier queries.
Oversee daily, weekly, and month-end payment activities, ensuring the seamless execution of vendor disbursements, employee expense reimbursements, and payment schedule maintenance.
Take accountability for month-end close workflows and prepare comprehensive balance sheet and ledger reconciliation to ensure financial integrity.
Maintain the fixed asset register, manage the accurate capitalisation of assets, and carefully track capital expenditures.
Administer employee travel and expense claims via the corporate management platform, review and reconcile corporate credit card transactions, and monitor strict compliance with company policies.
Provide robust operational support to various financial and systems optimisation projects as required by the global finance leadership team.

Requirements

What you’ll need

BCom / Certified Accountant / 3 year degree
5+ years' experience in accounting or auditing in a corporate environment
Advanced MS Excel: Professional proficiency with solid formula knowledge.
Google Workspace: Practical, everyday efficiency across Google platforms.
Accounting Software: Hands-on experience navigating established accounting platforms or mid-to-large-tier systems.
Experience operating within Large Enterprise ERP Systems (such as SAP, Oracle NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics 365) beneficial
Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail
The ability to multitask
Must be able to work at a high standard
Perform consistently under pressure along with pre-determined deadlines
Work without supervision
Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to work as an effective member of a team
Good communication and personal task management skills and a high level of self-motivation and initiative
A creative and disciplined approach to problem-solving
Fluent in English
SA Citizenship

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible office hours.
Hybrid working: Currently the team is working from the office on Thursday | Working from home for the rest of the time.
Laptop provided.
6-month fixed term contract starting July.

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Hard Skills & Tools

accounts payablevendor invoice processingbalance sheet reconciliationledger reconciliationfixed asset managementcapital expenditure trackingexpense claims administrationfinancial reportingadvanced MS Excelaccounting software

Soft Skills

organisational skillsattention to detailmultitaskinghigh standard of workperforming under pressureself-motivationinitiativeproblem-solvinginterpersonal skillscommunication skills

Certifications

BComCertified Accountant