Accountant / Bookkeeper

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POSITION INFO:
Key Responsibilities Recording Transactions: Accurately log daily sales, Cost of sales, expenses, and other financial transactions to the General Ledger. Manual journal entries. Accounts Payable: Process vendor invoices, verify their accuracy, and schedule outgoing payments on time. Import, Export and forex experience. Create and maintain Creditors database on the system. Accounts Receivable: Generate customer invoices, record payments, and monitor and follow up on outstanding\/overdue balances. Create and maintain Debtors database on the system. Reconciliations: Balance sheet reconciliations. Cash & Bank: record and maintain banks, daily cash reporting. Processing of payments on banking platforms. Compare internal financial records with bank statements and credit card statements to resolve discrepancies. Payroll: oversee the payroll processing to ensure accurate and on time submissions and payments. (EMP201, SARS Efiling, Efiling, Staff Salaries and Wages and 3rd Party payments) Ensure completion of reconciliations for staff loan accounts Intercompany loan accounts. Financial Reporting: Generate all monthly and quarterly reports, i.e. Profit and Loss, Ledger, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow statements. Provide Detailed commentary on variances to budget and prior year. Budget and forecasting Completion of relevant sales & gross profit reports. Completion of the audit pack, bank & credit card reconciliations by specified deadlines. VAT: Ensure VAT reconciliation and accurate for monthly VAT return\/claim to SARS. Tax Preparation: Prepare and organize financial files, receipts, and reports to hand off to GFM for annual tax filing. Record Keeping: Maintain and organize manual \/ digital filing systems in compliance with government reporting and retention requirements. Stock experience -- stock takes, reporting, recons, investigations, reconciliation between multiple systems for stock and other reporting Fixed Assets: Proper asset register management ensuring additions, disposals, depreciation are accurately and timeously recorded. Finalize month end in 6 working days Other related duties as requested as and when required Unfortunately, due to high numbers of applicants it will be impossible to respond to every applicant, please consider your application unsuccessful should you not hear from us with a week of applying