Accountant

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced accountant who brings sharp technical skill, real attention to detail, and pride in getting the numbers exactly right. You'll be joining Propr's Finance team and will play a key role in keeping our financial reporting, reconciliations and compliance accurate and on time across our growing portfolio of short-term rentals.

Propr operates across South Africa, Dubai and Portugal - this role is based in South Africa and doesn't require travel, but gives you the exciting opportunity to gain exposure to working across these regions as part of the role. If you love precision, thrive under deadline pressure, and get genuine satisfaction from a clean balance sheet - you'll fit right in.

What you’ll be doing:

• Maintaining the general ledger and fixed asset register, and handling accounts payable and receivable
• Processing journals, accruals and prepayments, and performing balance sheet reconciliations
• Owning month-end processes and preparing monthly management accounts and financial statements (balance sheets and income statements)
• Calculating, preparing and submitting statutory returns, and liaising with suppliers, banks and SARS where required to ensure compliance with tax laws and regulations
• Reviewing monthly client statements ahead of client payments being processed, and reconciling payments once made to confirm clients were paid accurately, updating the payments list accordingly
• Reconciling client payments once made, updating the debtors list, and confirming clients were paid accurately
• Assisting with budgeting, forecasts, variance analysis - and making recommendations based on performance data
• Proven end-to-end payroll experience, from processing and reconciling payroll runs through to statutory submissions.
• Slaying tasks, solving problems, kicking ass - spotting issues early and jumping in wherever needed, because we're all about being helpful

Here’s our description of the ideal person for this job:

• Completed BCom Accounting degree, with 3-5 years' experience as an Accountant in a high-volume environment
• Confident with cloud accounting systems (e.g., Xero/Sage/QuickBooks)
• Advanced Microsoft Excel / Google Sheets skills (pivots, lookups)
• Deep, practical accounting knowledge - you know your way around reconciliations, balance sheet control accounts and statutory compliance
• Solid understanding of SARS guidelines on VAT and tax inside out, and able to apply that knowledge to a high standard in your day-to-day work
• Comprehensive understanding of IFRS for SMEs and multi-currency transactions
• Tech savvy and comfortable learning new systems quickly (we use a custom Property Management System and Asana/Front in our workflow)
• Excellent numerical ability and detail-obsessed in the best way - you don't let small errors slide
• Excellent verbal and written communication - clear, calm and professional
• Extremely organised, able to multitask, and quick to adapt to last-minute changes
• Solution-oriented and proactive; you tackle hurdles as they appear, even outside your job description, and stay calm under pressure - you run towards the fire, not from it
• A team player who wants the people around them to win too
• Able to work reliably within South African business hours, and stay responsive on Slack/Asana
• A stable internet connection and a quiet, focused work setup

Benefits

At Propr, we’re all about building an amazing place to work - together. One where you’re supported, challenged, and celebrated. From day one, you’ll be backed by a hands-on specialised training team lead as well as having access to our next-level learning platform and resources to help you hit the ground running. We don’t do outdated systems or slow laptops. You’ll get great hardware and user-friendly, well-integrated software including our very own custom-built property management system - to help you work efficiently, collaborate easily, and skip the admin headaches.

We’ve got your well-being covered with October Health, a performance psychology-based mental health and wellness app, and after a year with us, we’ll invest in your growth with professional development opportunities-on us! We love a good vibe, so expect Friday office treats or drinks, epic season-end parties, regular social events, annual team building events that bring everyone together as well as a referral program that rewards you for helping us grow the team. Best of all, you’ll be surrounded by fantastic people who live and breathe our 5 H's every day.

At Propr, you’re trusted to own your work and supported to grow with clear expectations and goals and above all, kind accountability. It’s not just a job-it’s a place where you can do great work and have a great time doing it.

Company Values

Company values may seem like some corporate-bullshit-marketing-ploy, but when you are faced with a challenging situation they can guide you to the correct solution. Knowing our values will help you to make the right decision, even if it’s a tough one. At Propr, we have 5 H's!

HONEST: We’re honest - even when it hurts. With colleagues, clients and guests we believe in transparency and owning up to our mistakes.

HUNGRY: We celebrate our victories and acknowledge our successes while striving to be better every day. We always want to be better. Better as a company and better as humans.

HUMBLE: What you have in your email signature doesn’t determine the value of your ideas or potential. We want each member of the team thinking critically about our company and processes.

HELPFUL: We look at everything in terms of “how can I help” not “what is the minimum I am required to do in order to satisfy the conditions of my employment”. We have 3 customers; our teammates, our guests and our property owners. We want them all to feel that everyone in the team is there to help them.

HAPPY: We work hard to make sure that everyone is in a role that they are great at and that has meaning to them.