Senior Bookkeeper

We are seeking a Senior Bookkeeper/Management Accountant ideally from the retail sector:

Requirements:

• Must have a driver's licence and own transport.
• 5-7 years' experience in a bookkeeping position.
• Relevant Degree/Diploma preferred.
• Experienced in Books to Balance Sheet & Income Statement.
• Good knowledge of MS Excel.
• Experienced in Pastel Evolution.
• Must be able to work independently and work well under pressure.
• Exceptional attention to detail.
• Highly organized.
• Able to meet deadlines.
• Retail experience preferred
• Excellent communication skills.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Sales:

• Complete weekly, monthly sales report.
• Ensure collection of few debtors sales (Mainly internal and related companies).
• Ensure debtors are credit worthy.

Suppliers:

• Review Creditors clerks’ supplier’s recons.
• Load creditors and/or sundry payments on bank and/or check creditors payments and release payments.
• Ensure creditors gets paid timeously to utilize discount.

Cash Book and Banking:

• Process the cashbook payments and receipts accurately in Pastel Evolution.
• Reconcile cashbook to bank statement daily.
• Prepare daily control account reconciliations ensuring that all takings are bank timeously.
• Control internal discount cards and loan vouchers.
• Ensure enough cash in bank for debit orders, payments and transfer excess cash to investment account.
• Preparation of weekly cash forecasts for Management.
• Check/oversee staff performing parts of above mention functions.

Payroll:

• Prepare the small internal staff payroll.
• Ensure hours, loan deductions, overtime, expenses, are recorded correctly.
• Manage record keeping filing of labour issues.
• Calculate department managers incentives accurately and with general managers approval.
• Submit Emp201’s monthly and Emp501’s twice a year.
• Check the larger outsourced staff payroll hours to the time keeping system.
• Check the outsourced payroll deductions are correct.
• Liaise with outsourced HR on any corrections or errors, timeously.
• Manage the admin of any graduate or learnership programs.
• Check that ETI for month have been calculated correctly.
• Report any issues to the GM.
• Prepare labour report monthly.
• Check and oversee/train staff performing parts of these above-mentioned functions.

Audits, Stock Counts and Monthly Management Accounts:

• Assist with stock counts twice a year, if required.
• Audit stock count top values next day to ensure system records stock accurately.
• Post month end journals including any accrual and prepayment journals if required.
• Prepare Evolution set of books to trail balance each month and prepare Management Accounts for Senior Management to review.
• Prepare month end file in support of monthly management accounts.
• Prepare monthly vat returns (VAT201) with supporting control account reconciliation and input and output reconciliations.
• Monthly reporting to be completed within monthly deadlines.
• Prepare year end audit file containing reconciliations/support for all balance sheet accounts and resolve any audit queries if need be.

Ad hoc Duties:

• Complete Insurance claims.
• Ad hoc tasks required by management e.g. GP% or expense analysis for certain stores
• Cover/help other bookkeeper team members when they are on leave.

Computer literacy:

• Sage Evolution (advantage)
• Excel
• E-filing
• Easy File