Senior Financial Accountant

Anyone can produce numbers. Producing numbers an auditor, a bank and a board will all trust without blinking - that is the craft.

Job Overview

Our UK-based client is hiring a full-time, remote Senior Financial Accountant based in South Africa. You will own technical accounting for the business: reconciliations, reporting, compliance and year-end - delivered with a precision that makes everyone downstream faster. This is a senior, long-term role on UK business hours.

About Our Client

The client is an established UK company with real transaction volume and proper reporting obligations. They want a senior accountant who works cleanly to deadline, understands the story behind the balances, and lifts the standard of everyone around them.

Key Responsibilities

- Prepare monthly management accounts and supporting schedules

- Own balance sheet reconciliations with audit-ready documentation

- Manage VAT returns and statutory compliance with external advisers

- Lead year-end preparation and be the auditor's favourite contact

- Review the work of junior finance staff with constructive rigour

- Improve accounting processes, controls and month-end cadence

- Provide technical accounting guidance to leadership when it matters

What You Will Be Doing Day-to-Day

Your rhythm follows the close calendar. Early in the month you drive reconciliations and journals; mid-month you review, document and improve; at period-end you deliver a pack whose numbers hold up under any question.

Along the way you will resolve technical queries, support the wider team with the trickier entries, and steadily automate the parts of the close that should never have been manual.

This suits a senior South African accounting professional who is precise by temperament and calm by habit - someone whose working papers explain themselves and whose deadlines never slip quietly.

If you are based in South Africa with strong technical accounting experience and excellent English, this is a stable senior remote role with a UK employer that values proper accounting. Apply today.

Requirements

- 5+ years' accounting experience including management accounts and reconciliations

- Professional qualification or near-qualified (SAICA, SAIPA, ACCA, CIMA)

- Excellent written and spoken English for reporting and adviser liaison

- Proven reliability: stable fibre internet, backup power for load shedding, and a private home office

- Advanced with tech tools: Xero, Sage or QuickBooks plus strong Excel or Google Sheets

- Meticulous, deadline-driven and audit-minded in documentation

Benefits

Full-time remote position working for a UK-based employer. Competitive salary paid in ZAR. Long-term stable role. Supportive team environment. Direct access to founder-led business.