Senior Bookkeeper

2 weeks ago


KwazuluNatal, South Africa Accountancy Placements Full time

**Responsibilities**:

- Review of bank feeds for duplications and capture bank transactions where applicable
- Monthly bank reconciliations
- Process and allocate supplier invoices
- Process customer invoices
- Undertake monthly supplier and debtor reconciliations
- Process journals relating to month-end transactions
- Reconcile loan accounts
- VAT calculations and VAT201 submissions
- Review monthly trial balances
- Prepare management accounts
- Calculate general financial ratios and interpret financial statements
- Reconciliation and processing of the cashbook
- Processing journal entries
- Dealing with loan accounts, intercompany transactions and maintaining the fixed asset register
- The payroll of between 40-50 staff with some paid fortnightly and some monthly
- Implementation of accounting system - Pastel or other integrations with back-office systems being SIGMA and Winbranch
- Financial Reporting System: Management Accounts, Asset Register, Sales Report, Accounts Reports
- Payroll System: staff payments and submissions
- Creditor System: Creditor Payments, Creditor Recons
- Transactional System: Bank Recons, Cash Ups and Recon Controls, GRVs, Claims, Stock Transfers, Wastage Entries, Recipe Costings entries and reports monthly
- Monthly Stock Take Valuations and Reporting
- Department-Specific Cash Flow Statement Report
- Provisional Tax Projection Model

**Requirements**:

- Relevant accounting qualification
- ± 10 - 15 years of Senior Bookkeeping/Accounting experience
- Capable of working for multiple entities and various businesses as well as personal bookkeeping for directors
- Must demonstrate the ability to create and develop independent systems to promote operational excellence
- Strong reporting skills and appreciation for confidentiality
- Must have own transport
- Must have the ability and means to work remotely
- Capable of training a team for the sustainability of the business