Financial Accountant (SaaS/ERP)

Location: Fully remote, South Africa-based, with occasional travel as business needs require.

Company

hirify.global and its partner entities deliver Sage ERP and HRP solutions, ERP implementations, and outsourced accounting services.

What you will do

• Manage general ledger activities, journal entries, accruals, fixed assets, customer invoices, receipts, supplier invoices, and payment allocations.
• Own monthly and year-end close procedures and balance sheet reconciliations across bank, receivables, payables, accruals, prepayments, retainers, deferred revenue, unbilled revenue, intercompany, VAT, payroll, leave pay, and commission accounts.
• Manage client retainers, implementation milestones, timesheet billing, contract assets, deferred revenue schedules, and revenue recognition for consulting, support, subscription, licensing, and outsourced accounting services.
• Prepare intercompany reconciliations and support consolidation, eliminations, multi-currency accounting, financial statements, management reporting, variance analysis, and reforecasting.
• Prepare year-end audit files, respond to external auditor queries, and support VAT201, provisional tax, payroll tax, and other statutory filings.
• Collaborate with finance, operations, project, sales, system administration, and leadership teams while using Sage Intacct, Ramp, Asana, and Excel to maintain data integrity and improve controls.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on accounting experience as an Accountant or Senior Accountant, including at least 2–3 years in professional services, consulting, software, or an agency environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Strong working knowledge of IFRS, especially IFRS 15, and ASC 606 for US entities, including performance obligations, over-time recognition, contract assets, and contract liabilities.
• Hands-on ownership of deferred revenue, client retainer, and unbilled revenue schedules and reconciliations.
• Proven experience preparing month-end balance sheet reconciliations to audit standard and year-end audit files, including direct communication with external auditors.
• Working knowledge of South African VAT and statutory compliance.
• Advanced Excel skills, strong analytical ability, attention to detail, systems orientation, and a proactive problem-solving mindset.
• Ability to work a flexible, regular full-time schedule from South Africa and participate in collaboration across South African and US time zones as needed.

Nice to have

• Professional designation such as SAIPA Professional Accountant or ACCA; completed articles are advantageous.
• Strong proficiency in Sage Intacct, including projects, dimensions, and multi-entity consolidation.
• Experience in IT consulting, software implementation, SaaS, or outsourced accounting businesses.
• Familiarity with ERP implementations, financial technology integrations, Ramp, Asana, or similar tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work with occasional travel based on business and management needs.
• Full-time schedule with flexibility to support deadlines, cross-regional collaboration, and virtual meetings.
• Fast-paced global environment emphasizing ownership, autonomy, accuracy, continuous improvement, and audit-ready financials.
• Inclusive equal-opportunity workplace committed to diversity and legally protected equal treatment.