Senior Bookkeeper – Junior Accountant
Permanent
Cape Town
Posted 2 years ago
A dynamic Managed IT Services Provider operating in the UK and SA seeks a highly professional, analytical, meticulous and experience Senior Bookkeeper / Junior Accountant with a high level of integrity, responsibility and who is a proactive problem-solver to join its team.
Job Role:
Reporting directly to the 2 Directors. You will be expected to:
- Accurately record vendor/supplier purchase invoices, other expenses and invoice coding
- You will also approve all purchase invoices and expenses ensuring purchasing processes and approvals have been followed together with maintaining data integrity including ensuring customers have been invoiced for all items procured by the procurement manager
- Ensure all reconciliations with third parties/suppliers are performed and accurate.
- Ensure all GL codes are accurately assigned to supplier and customer invoices
- Perform daily bank reconciliations and confirm all transactions are correctly entered and post any missing transactions.
- Prepare payment runs
- Review and approve all expense claims to ensure proper coding and that expense claim processes are correctly followed
- Maintain/reconcile monthly recurring invoice check and monthly recurring product purchase count
- Prepare VAT returns
- Manage the day-to-day Accounting and Bookkeeping
- Liaise with staff especially purchasing and customer services staff
- Responding to supplier, customer and staff (purchasing and customer services) queries
- Assist with ad-hoc reports for management, including GL account reconciliations and management accounts
- Process journals accurately on back office
- Compile and balance PAYE reconciliations
- Maintain digital files on all accounts payable/receivable and update records as required
- Ensure compliance of proper payment workflow processes
- Perform various administrative and accounting tasks according to the needs of the company
Qualifications
- Post-secondary education at College or University-level focusing on Business or Accounting
- Accounting Degree/Diploma after school
- Matric / Grade 12
Experience/Skills
- Minimum of 3 years’ of relevant experience in a similar role
- Experience in Quickbooks (or a similar accounting package)
- Advanced Excel proficiency/experience in creating and managing Excel Spreadsheets – preferably having completed a course
- Knowledge and experience working with SARS, VAT, PAYE, Company Tax and CIPC
- Experience preparing of Management Accounts highly desirable
- Microsoft Office experience (Outlook, Excel are essential)
Highly advantageous
- Experience with foreign currencies. Such as GBP and ZAR
- Knowledge and experience of UK’s HMRC, VAT, PAYE systems and tax
The deadline for applications is 2023/02/30
For more information, call Nova Buchan on 073 393 9731 or send your CV to Nova@capitaledgerecruitment.co.za
Job Features
Job Category | Finance, Information Technology |