Staff Accountant
External
Digicert · Cape Town, South AfricaPrepare for this interview
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About the role
DigiCert is a global leader in intelligent trust. We protect the digital world by ensuring the security, privacy, and authenticity of every interaction. Our AI-powered DigiCert ONE platform unifies PKI, DNS, and certificate lifecycle management, to secure infrastructure, software, devices, messages, AI content and agents. Learn why more than 100,000 organizations, including 90% of the Fortune 500, choose DigiCert to stop today's threats and prepare for a quantum-safe future at www.digicert.com Job summary As Staff Accountant you will be responsible for capture and analysis of payroll related transactions across multiple entities. These entities can include global subsidiaries incorporated in the UK, Ireland, Spain, Switzerland, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Canada, China, Germany, Latvia, Sweden, Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, Bermuda, Japan and Australia. You would also be responsible for monthly reconciliations of liability accounts that are necessary to ensure the integrity of the balance sheet. You will work with different team members around the globe and will meet with these individuals regularly, requiring flexible hours.
Responsibilities
- Prepare payroll processing input and review processing output from payroll vendors for a variety of international entities
- Prepare monthly payroll entries and complete other month-end close activities for a variety of international entities
- Perform monthly reconciliations for liability accounts
- Perform routine income statement reconciliations to year-to-date payroll reports to identify any errors in payroll journals
- Provide explanations for monthly variances on specific liability and expense accounts
- Contribute to and improve account reconciliations
- Coordinate payroll requests with and prepare documentation for external auditors (both domestic and international)
- Work independently to answer questions from other finance professionals within the business
- Investigating and resolving audit findings, account discrepancies, and issues of non-compliance
- Performing other accounting and payroll duties and supporting as required
- Assist on finance improvement projects as required
- What you will have
- Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting
- 2+ years of relevant experience in an accounting position with payroll processing and payroll accounting experience.
- Experience with a major ERP product
- Experience with month-end close and variance analysis
- Highly organized and great at tracking and meeting deadlines
- Dedicated to high-quality results and finding solutions
- Excellent skill with Microsoft Excel (Advanced lookups/Pivot tables) and other common computer applications
- Strong analytic and problem-solving skills
Requirements
- International payroll experience
- Experience with NetSuite
- Professional designation (SAIPA)
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