Senior Bookkeeper - JHB

Job Position: Senior Bookkeeper

Ref: 4089

Location: Johannesburg (Sandton)

Salary: R18 000 per month negotiable commensurate with experience including medical aid

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To start immediately – urgent appointment

Qualifications / Requirements:

• Matriculated

• Relevant bookkeeping qualification/s

• Good, contactable reference/s

• Reliable transport to work and back

• Well spoken, resilient and good people skills

Experience in:

• Accounting function (capturing) as part of a team up to trial balance and monthly management accounts:

- Ensure all capturing has been completed accurately and accounts are fully prepared by the 15th of every month

- Register of missing documents for compliance

- Capturing on correct projects

- Financial reports

- Budgets

- Cashflow

• Full debtors function:

- Ensure all clients are invoiced on time

- Ensure all relevant reconciliations have been done for invoicing

- Double check all recons from source documents

- Ensure all queries are resolved timeously

- Reconcile debtors fully for management accounts

- Ensure the client invoice is captured

• Full creditors function:

- Ensure all creditors are paid on time, as per their requirements:

- Ensure all relevant reconciliations have been completed and signed off prior to payments

- Double check all recons from source documents

- Ensure all queries are resolved prior to payment

- Ensure documentation is loaded on required systems (such as Elogic, etc.)

- Reconcile creditors fully for management accounts

- Ensure scheduled payment runs are met

- Send POP to relevant staff members to distribute after payments

- All reconciliations are 100% complete before payment runs

• Various reconciliations:

- Preparing and maintaining all reconciliations required by the various entities (double checking source documents to ensure submitted recons are 100%):

- Petty cash

- Diesel

- Credit Cards

- Sub-contractors (trucks and yellows)

- Other, as required

- Dealing with all recon-related queries

- Critically analyzing recons to determine any inconsistencies or irregularities – ‘red flags’

• Filing:

- Ensure all paperwork is filed correctly, in line with compliance requirements set by auditors

- Ensure all required and compliant paperwork is accounted for

- Ensure back-ups are run of all soft files on a weekly basis

- Ensure the server is updated with soft copies of:

- All management accounts

- All reconciliations (kept up to date)