Bookkeeper - Maternity Cover

**Job Title: Bookkeeper - Maternity Cover**

**Location: Blackheath, Western Cape**

**Salary Range: Market-related**

**Reporting to: Junior Financial Manager**

**Job Summary**:
This job profile is not an exclusive list of responsibilities and could be changed from time-to-time per business requirements.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Processing of invoices, payments, accruals, provisions, and journals
- Ensure that all payments and receipts are updated daily so that that all financial accounting transactions the team is responsible for are reflected in the trial balance.
- Ensuring that both debtors and creditors age analysis are cleared on a weekly basis.
- Reconciliation on debtors, creditors, bank, petty cash transactions
- Generating and sending out monthly invoices to our customers.
- Sending out monthly statements to customers, specifically to those that are in arrears with their account.
- Providing daily support on all outstanding queries from customers as and when required.
- Ad-hoc accounting duties
- General assistance to the Junior Finance Manager and Business Head.

**Qualifications and Skills**:

- Matric with a minimum of 2 years’ experience in debtors and creditor’s function (Degree/Diploma in accounting would be an added advantage)
- Must have working knowledge of accounting package such as Pastel, etc. together with sound VAT knowledge.
- Well spoken, good communication skills, verbal and written in English.
- Must have Excel, Word, Outlook experience.

**Personal Attributes**:

- Must be able to work in a pressurised environment and be deadline and target driven.
- Must be able to work independently, as well as part of a team.
- Must be able to manage own time, effectively.
- Excellent attention to detail is a definite
- Confidentiality and integrity are non-negotiable.

**Job Type**: Temporary

**Education**:

- Diploma (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Bookkeeping: 2 years (required)