Bookkeeper

**Department**: Finance

**Position name**: Bookkeeper

**Position info**

We are seeking an innovative and experienced Bookkeeper to join our team.

**Company info relevant to role**:
The Daly Group is a dynamic, fast moving, entrepreneur led group of 8 companies spanning 5 industries. It has big ambitious vision and requires a remarkable Finance Team to be its value adding business partner in

supporting the achieving of its goals.

**Permanent**:
3 months’ probation then permanent in position

**Purpose of the Job**:
To accurately record, organize and maintain financial transactions, to ensure the financial records of the company are accounted for efficiently and timeously, to assist in maintaining sound financial control and achieving fair

presentation of the financial statements.

**Minimum**:

- 1 choice is BCom Accounting (with Auditing), or alternatively a Financial

**Qualifications and**

**Experience**
- Matric Mathematics (Core/Higher Grade) minimum 55%
- 5 years general accounts dept. experience

**NOTE**:
**(Listed in order of priority)**

: (auditing & legal firm experience is advantageous)
- Strong Excel skills & working knowledge of other MS Office programs
- Advanced working knowledge of Pastel Partner
- Experience in a multi-company (4 or more) financial accounting dept.
- Knowledge of relevant laws, regulations, and accounting standards

**Competencies**
- Integrity
- Team player (commitment, consideration to, and collaborative with team)
- Mature and professional
- Strong communication & interpersonal skills
- Self-motivated, proactive, independent worker
- Quick learner & strong desire to continue learning & developing
- Problem solving skills and solutions orientated thinking
- Savvy in an unstructured environment i.e. rely on self-initiative to complete a task, rather than an existing system achieving the outputs
- Able to adapt to change in a fast paced entrepreneurial environment
- Strong work ethic, able to work under pressure & meet deadlines
- Excellent attention to detail, accuracy & analytical skills
- Logical and systematic/methodical way of working

**Required**

**NOTE**:
**(Listed in order of**

**priority)**

**Additional**

**Competency Testing**:

- Skills (Excel, Financial Competency, Bookkeeping) & Polygraph tests

**Working Hours**:
Mon to Fri - 07h30 to 16h00
- Overtime as per operational requirements.

**AdditionalNotes/Specifications**:

- Job is +- minimum 60% “Work from Home” based
- However, initial training and onboarding will require minimum 2 - 3 months “Work from Office”

**Job Responsibilities:DutiesandResponsibilities**
- Bookkeeping and financial control within 2 or more of the 8 companies in the Daly Group
- Ad hoc functions

**JobTaskAnalysis**
- **Bookkeeping and financial control**
- Daily payover preparation,cashbookmaintenance and payment loading using various Online Banks
- Pay over preparation involves working with Excel reports & bank statements to prepare a schedule of funds that are due to clients in respect of customer’s debts collected on their behalf
- Processingofbooks uptoTrialBalance inPastel
- Record full financial transactions - Debtors, Creditors and Bank including completion of bank reconciliations
- Processing of journals e.g. depreciation, finance charges, payroll, prepayments, expense and income accruals
- Managementofdebtorsandcreditorscontrol
- Preparing debtors reconciliations for customer queries
- Follow up on outstanding debtor payments and queries
- Ensuring supplier invoices are adequately authorised for payment
- Preparing creditors ledger reconciliations to the statements
- Preparing & loading payments using various Online Banks
- Follow up on outstanding creditor queries
- PreparingmonthendGeneralLedgerreconciliations
- The reconciliation & validation of income statement and balance sheet accounts with supporting documentation
- Summarising and reconciling intercompany transactions and balances
- Thecompletion&submissionofstatutoryreturns
- The completion & submission of the VAT201 returns
- The completion & submission of the EMP201 & COIDA returns
- **Ad hoc functions**
- Assist in the preparation of budgets and financial forecasts.
- Assisting with financial queries, calculations and investigations
- Assisting with year-end audits
- Assisting with covering & being the back up for other team members who are temporarily away on leave
- **Due to the nature of the business assist in any other areas should it be necessary**

Work Location: In person