Senior Bookkeeper

Contact person for this position:
Amori Prinsloo

Our client is urgently in need of a Senior Bookkeeper.

Initial duration of 2 weeks, with the option to extend on a weekly basis.

**QUALIFICATIONS**:

- Grade 12 / B-Com

**SKILLS REQUIRED**:

- Pastel Evolution essential
- Advance Excel essential
- Cashbook experience essential
- Completed articles advantage
- Stock experience essential
- Payroll experience advantage
- Ability to work independent in fast past environment essential

**DUTIES WILL INCLUDE**:

- Basic duties include but are not limited to full debtors’, creditors and bookkeeper functions as defined below (in no order):

- Client and vendor payment approvals and allocations
- Customer collections including the control of any automated collection system such as the bank’s ACB module.
- Banking status and reconciliations
- Ensuring SARS, Bank and any other documentation required is completed in order to efficiently run the business (e.g. Bank guarantees)
- Sales and stock reporting and analysis
- Ensuring client and vendor queries are efficiently resolved
- Resolving legacy queries
- Payroll submissions to Payroll department
- Stock reconciliations
- Cashbook reconciliations
- Journal entries and reconciliations
- General ledger reconciliations
- Fixed Asset control
- Creating and processing of Purchase Orders, Stock receipts, Picking Slips, Invoices, Returns and other documents required
- Electronic Banking Administration
- Document Administration
- Policies and Procedures Administration and implementation
- Electronic Database Administration
- Monthly full stock takes
- Daily stock cycle counts
- Trial Balance & management accounts reporting
- Statutory returns reconciled and submitted.
- Ensuring subordinates are tasked correctly and accurately and reporting on such activities.
- Ensuring all personnel that are assigned duties fulfil them accurately and quickly with form timelines given.
- Other duties and responsibilities will be added on according to the needs of the company when required
- Daily processing of all cashbooks
- Daily processing of all documentation according to company requirements
- Daily cash-ups of control of retail transactions
- Debtors and creditors reconciliations
- Manage debtors’ collections
- Creditors payments
- Timorous completion of all reconciliations and payments
- Negotiating and booking of rates on forward exchange contracts
- Notify suppliers of FEC’s booked
- Controlling all company documentation according to specified system
- Ensure all monthly and weekly deadlines are met
- Prepare management accounts on a monthly basis by the 9th of each the month
- Finalize month end figures for financials
- Prepare and maintain trial balance and balance sheets
- Prepare control and maintain asset register
- Analyse information regarding income and expenses from financials
- Report variances of financials and do the necessary to rectify them
- Ensure timorous payments of creditors
- Controlling and verifying the GP %
- Calculate commissions for sales representatives
- Calculate rebates
- Manage stock takes and verify variances
- Should have knowledge of ethical accounting practices and ensure they are adhered to
- Should have good oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to efficiently lead, delegate and motivate subordinates.
- Ability to work fast and accurate in high past environment
- Ability to work on multiple companies
- Understanding of Branch accounting for retail stores
- Ad hock duties required by management from time to time

R 115 per hour

Area: Woodmead