Accounting Practice Junior

We are looking for a small-practice accounting clerk or SAIPA trainee to assist CDSoft.

The role is roughly 2hrs per day, about 10 hours per week on a flex-time basis. Can be done when you have time, evenings or weekends. Invoiced fortnightly for hours worked.

CDSoft is building software for small accounting practices and we need someone who does the compliance work for a living.

The role is to advise a software developer not to do accounting. You will test and give feedback on how to improve the system.

Exposure to payroll, CIPC and SARS submissions.

Would suit:

You have personally prepared or submitted VAT201 and EMP201 returns, an EMP501 reconciliation through e@syFile, CIPC annual returns, and ITR12 or ITR14 working papers — in a practice, for someone else's clients. Preparing for a senior to release is fine.

You have used at least three of: Pastel (Partner, Evolution or Payroll), Sage Business Cloud, Xero, QuickBooks, Draftworx, CaseWare, SimplePay, Sage VIP, e@syFile, CIPC eServices, GreatSoft.

You can do a month-end close and a year-end without assistance — the recons, the journals, the trial balance, what goes into Draftworx and what comes out.

Qualification: any of a BCom, a diploma or certificate in accounting or financial accounting, N4–N6, ICB subjects, or a SAIPA, SAICA or ACCA contract in progress. Completion is not required. The practice experience is the entire requirement.

Comfortable with:

• The month-end close: request the records → capture or import the bank feed → allocate to GL accounts and VAT codes → bank, credit card, petty cash, debtor and creditor recons → journals for depreciation, accruals, prepayments, payroll and director loan accounts → VAT and payroll control accounts reconciled → trial balance and the management pack.
• The year-end: trial balance into Draftworx or CaseWare and mapped → lead schedules → loan accounts and related parties reconciled → tax computation → draft AFS under IFRS for SMEs → signature → ITR14 → CIPC annual return.
• ⭐ The request-and-chase cycle, which is the one we are actually buying: how the "please provide" list gets written, who writes it, what happens when half of it arrives, who chases, and what the practice does when the deadline is a week out and the client has gone quiet.