SUMMARY:
Bookkeeper/Accountant - R35k/month - (Maitland) CT - Perm - Immediate Start - Open to all
POSITION INFO:
Our client in the Food Industry is looking for a highly organised, efficient Bookkeeper/Accountant to join their team. Candidates must be able to maintain a high level of confidentiality, have a strong personality and have a "can-do" attitude. The main function of the position is to record and reconcile all financial transactions relating to accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash transactions and payroll (journal entries and posting to GL), calculate the trial balance and brings TB to balance, by recording corrective adjustment entries, maintain an excellent filing system, attend to assertive debtor management and staff queries and will report to the Financial Manager.
Duties and responsibilities
Debtors
• Sending monthly customer statements and invoices not received by customers.
• Opening new customer accounts.
• Liaising with clients and sales regarding overdue accounts and address customer questions or complaints.
• Daily monitoring of Claims/Queries with all the retailers and operations to get claims resolved timeously.
• Allocating payments received to the correct customer.
• Managing the Age Analysis and capture the feedback from customers.
• Notifying management on collection problems.
• Ensuring that all remittances are received to allocate receipts accordingly.
Creditors
• Capturing suppliers’ invoices on accounting system.
• Ensuring that VAT is correctly captured on the accounting system.
• Weekly balancing of inter-Company accounts.
• Monitoring and maintaining the creditors’ age analysis.
• Allocating expenses to the correct Supplier and General Ledger accounts.
• Ensuring all documentation meets the minimum SARS and legal requirements Reconciling the supplier accounts.
• Liaising with suppliers on any discrepancies, credits, disputed items, etc
• Payment preparation and loading of payments online banking.
• Ensuring all supplier payment deadlines are adhered to in accordance with agreed supplier payment terms.
Cash book / Bank
• Capture and Reconcile the cash book.
• Preparing weekly and monthly cash flow reports.
• Performing weekly and monthly bank reconciliations.
• Processing of daily EFT payments.
• Load new beneficiaries.
Payroll
• Payroll processing on VIP payroll.
• Weekly monthly reports and reconciliation of payroll.
• Attend to staff queries.
General Bookkeeping
• VAT calculations
• VAT201 and EMP201 submissions on SARS e-filing
• Prepare VAT reconciliations
• General maintenance of SARS accounts General Financial duties
• Assisting in the monthly preparation and reporting of management accounts (balance sheets, income statements, etc)
• Maintaining of the fixed asset register, intangible asset registers and amortisation schedules
• Assisting in the preparation and management of the annual financial audit
• Responding to audit requirements and addressing findings
• Assisting in the preparation and management of the annual BEE audit
• Processing of monthly recurring journals
• Processing of duly authorised ad-hoc journals as required.
• Maintaining an up-to-date record keeping and filing system (focussing on electronic retention of documents)
• Providing support to the Operations Teams as and when needed
• Assisting with data analytics
• Monitoring and reporting on accounting discrepancies
• Performing month-end and year-end close processes
• Performing Ad-hoc assignments as directed by senior management.
Minimum requirements:
• Min Bookkeeping or Accounting degree/qualification
• Sound knowledge of IFRS accounting standards
• 5+ years Bookkeeping experience at a reputable, well-run SME or small corporate
• 3+ years VIP payroll experience (min 50 staff)
• Debtor clerk experience in dealing with Retailers like - Shoprite, PnP (non-negotiable), and SPAR (advantageous)
• Syspro experience
• Sound time management skills
• Driver’s license Code 8
If you meet all the above requirements, please email your updated CV in Word format along with a copy of your ID, qualifications, drivers licence, contactable references and a head and shoulder picture of yourself to cvs4--------Please upload your CV here--------
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