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AVI Limited is looking for a Financial Accountant for Spitz in Bryanston, Johannesburg, with applications closing on 20 November 2026. This permanent role sits in the finance team of one of South Africa’s premium footwear and apparel brands, and it covers trial balance accuracy, month-end reporting, statutory returns and annual financial statements.
About the company and the work
AVI Limited is home to many of South Africa’s leading and best-loved brands, and it is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Spitz is its premium footwear and apparel business, offering world-class brands such as Carvela, Gianni Chiarini, Lacoste, Nina Roche and Tosoni, along with Carvela Donna and Bello body sprays and Verve by Kurt Geiger. In this role you will ensure the accuracy and completeness of the trial balance and accurate and timeous reporting. You will report to the Financial Manager and have no direct reports.
Role details and duties
Your key areas of impact include preparing and processing all month-end journals and ensuring the general ledger closes at a specified time, reconciling bank accounts, ensuring expenses are allocated correctly and reallocated where necessary, and ensuring balances on balance sheet reconciliations are accurately and timeously recorded. You will follow up, investigate and clear differences and reconciling items, leaving minimal outstanding items, compile Excel-based balance sheet and income statement workings for one of the smaller subsidiaries, prepare the monthly inter-company matrix and create manual ad hoc and monthly inter-company invoices, and maintain IFRS 16 leases by preparing computations for new and existing leases monthly. You will prepare accurate and timeous financial reporting to AVI, including the Day 4 early estimate and Day 8 and Day 12 monthly reporting, ensure all reporting to AVI is accurate and complete and submitted timeously per the AVI calendar, and prepare the mark-to-market revaluation of forward exchange contract calculations. You will prepare the monthly trial balance review file template for review by the Senior Financial Manager and Financial Manager, prepare budgets annually and forecasts quarterly for the balance sheet, prepare the 8-week cash flow forecast weekly, and prepare early payment data and submit it monthly to HR shared services. You will prepare and submit statutory obligations and external reports, including the monthly VAT return and monthly Stats SA returns, prepare the income tax calculation on a provisional, bi-annual and annual basis per the AVI template, and ensure VAT, dividends, provisional and annual income returns are submitted accurately and timeously. You will prepare annual financial statements per the AVI template and in accordance with IFRS, execute XBRL tagging for the Spitz entities’ financial statements to facilitate electronic submission, and avoid interest and penalties. You will ensure delivery as required by Stats SA turnover reporting in the required format, ensure compliance with legislated requirements from government departments, approve purchase orders on SAP and approve payments on SAP and the banking platform, and confirm the validity and accuracy of local and foreign payments and release them. You will confirm the validity and accuracy of purchase orders, ensuring necessary authorisation and support is received, collate the Italy salaries payment report monthly and send it to the Senior Financial Manager for review, and collate all approved expense reimbursements relating to Italian employees and submit them to the Italian office. You will also assist with internal and external audit processes by preparing and providing accurate supporting schedules, and assist with ad hoc finance-related projects and requests from the business.
Requirements
The advert asks for SAIPA or SAICA articles and 3 years of post-article experience as a Financial Accountant, and it also lists 5 years of experience as a Financial Accountant, so applicants should confirm how these two experience statements combine in the original advert. Qualifications that will contribute to your success are a CTA or BCom Accounting Honours, or a BCom Accounting with CIMA or SAIPA. Additional requirements that will enhance your impact are tax experience, reporting experience from a listed company or a subsidiary of a listed company, and SAP. Remuneration is market related. Some detail lines in the original advert are truncated in the browser view, so the duties above are paraphrased at a general level; please confirm the full wording in the original advert before applying.
Where to find and apply safely
This vacancy is advertised on Careers24 by AVI Limited, and the Apply button on this page takes you directly to the original advert. Note that the original advert is marked as an external application, so it may take you to AVI’s own application route. Apply only through that original listing, and be wary of anyone asking you to pay a fee to secure a job, as legitimate employers do not charge jobseekers for applications.
Practical tips
Emphasise your articles, post-article financial accounting experience and any listed-company reporting exposure, since these are central to the role. Highlight hands-on SAP experience, IFRS knowledge, VAT and income tax return work, and any experience with inter-company transactions, leases or XBRL tagging. Be ready to show how you keep reconciliations clean and reporting on time.
How the process works
Click the Apply button on this page to reach the original Careers24 advert, where you can submit your application before 20 November 2026. This is an external application, so follow the instructions on the original advert and keep your contact details up to date.
Important information
This post is for information only and is not the employer. All details above come from the original advert, so please confirm them there before applying. Note that this is the AVI Spitz Financial Accountant vacancy in Bryanston, Johannesburg, distinct from other Financial Accountant listings.
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