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Accountant, CaseWare
About the role
• Prepare annual financial statements for a simulated portfolio of small, owner-managed companies from year-end trial balance through signing pack
• Check year-end packs and request missing information
• Agree prior-year signed AFS to current-year opening balances and document differences
• Map client account names to CaseWare account numbers and lead sheet codes; build import files and load trial balances
• Tie bank balances, interest, foreign balances, creditors, and income in advance to supporting records
• Post year-end journals for depreciation, deferred tax, prior-year tax adjustments, and reclassifications
• Roll forward CaseWare files, update notes and comparatives, and prepare tax computations
• Clear AI partner review notes and update files
• Prepare final signing packs for director approval
• Create high-quality AFS training data and document accounting steps, decisions, and judgments for AI
• Design, refine, and test AI accounting workflows; identify and correct AI errors
• Use AI models to map accounts, draft notes, and check work
• Flag turnover above the R2.3m VAT registration threshold when clients are unregistered
• Manage final trial balances, journals, signed AFS, missing-record requests, and post-signing-pack changes
• BCom in Accounting, National Diploma in Accounting, or equivalent
• 0 to 2 years of experience in an accounting practice including AFS preparation during articles or a learnership
• Hands-on CaseWare experience including file setup, trial balance import and mapping, roll-forward, adjusting journals, and updating notes and comparatives — hard requirement
• Working knowledge of IFRS for SMEs and the Companies Act
• Comfortable with deferred tax, depreciation, and a company income tax computation
• Strong Excel skills including lookups, lead schedules, and reconciliations
• Clear, polite written English for client requests and review responses
• Genuine interest in AI and in breaking accounting work into clear, teachable steps
• Comfortable working with AI models and able to check and challenge what they produce
• Short Loom video (1 to 2 minutes) required for application
• Paid Time Off in accordance with company policy
• Observance of Holidays per company guidelines
• 100% remote setup
• CaseWare license and AI training provided
• Own a simulated client portfolio and work alongside an AI partner from day one
• Long-term, permanent role at the cutting edge of AI development in accounting