JOB OPPORTUNITY – BOOKKEEPER
Location: Prospecton, Durban Salary: Market Related
Availability: Immediate Start
Email CV to: [email protected]
Please use "Bookkeeper" as the subject line.
Job description
The Bookkeeper will be responsible for all aspects of financial processing, ensuring compliance with internal policies and procedures, as well as external customer requirements. S/he is responsible for the day-to-day accounting and administration of finance
Key Responsibilities
Cashbook maintenance
· Processing of monthly and ad hoc payments
· Capturing of bank payments/receipts on ERP system
· Facilitating release of payments by management
· Preparation of monthly bank reconciliations
Monthly reporting
· Ensuring all monthly processing is complete
· Ensuring monthly consumables on ERP agrees to month end counts for all sites
· Processing petty cash entries
· Preparing monthly reporting schedules for Financial Manager
· First review of daily purchase orders
· First review of monthly creditors recons and review of payment captured on standard bank
· Preparation of cashflow schedule
· Processing of monthly Journal entries
· Maintenance of the fixed asset register including the tax asset register
· Preparation of Intercompany reconciliations
· Complete financial accounting and overall responsibility for GL balancing and maintenance.
Wages
· Inspect time sheet calculations for all companies and capture the data on VIP weekly.
· Capture all new employees bank information from bank letter/bank statement and submit to Financial Manager for review and authorisation
· Submit all workings in respect of wages to Financial Manager for review and authorisation
· Ensure all VIP reports and workings are filed
Sales and Debtors support
· Review of sales orders prepared by creditors clerk
· Ensure prices loaded on the system are correct.
· Maintenance of product listing and price changes
· Upload of invoices on to customer accounting system
· Preparation on monthly sales summary
· Ensuring payments received timeously from customers
· Preparation of quotations as required by Financial Manager
Yearly audit
· Providing information as requested from external auditors
· Preparation of annual audit schedules as required
· Processing of yearly audit entries as provided by the Financial Manager
· Assisting with audit queries
Month end close
· Performing month end close on ERP system and extracting all necessary reporting documents required
Ad hoc duties
· Complete and submit monthly statistic returns.
· Assisting management with new supply contracts and agreements and submission thereof. Comparing agreements for any changes made to it.
· Assist with calculation and submission of VAT, PAYE, UIF and SDL.
· Assist with the computation for Workmens compensation.
· Performing ad hoc duties as and when required by management.
Qualifications & Experience
· BCom Degree in Accounting/Finance
· A minimum of 2 year’s experience as a Bookkeeper.
· FMCG industry experience and working knowledge of any ERP would be advantageous
· Sound accounting knowledge is essential
· Strong interpersonal skills and proven ability to coach and mentor staff
· Able to work well under pressure
· Excellent computer skills including MS word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Salary
Market Related
Only candidates meeting the essential criteria will be contacted.
If you do not hear from us within 14 days, please accept that your application was unsuccessful.
Job Type: Full-time
Education:
Experience:
- Financial Accounting: 5 years (Required)
Work Location: In person
