Senior Bookkeeper
- Employer
- LWR International Ltd
- Location
- Sandton Sandton North Johannesburg, South Africa
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- Mar 25, 2023
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- Job Role
- Book Keeper
- Sector
- Finance
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
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Role
The Senior Bookkeeper will be responsible for maintaining records of financial transactions and ensuring compliance with legal requirements.
General Bookkeeper tasks:
Payroll:
Debtors and Creditors:
Governance:
Client and Vendor Management:
Additional:
Skills and experience you bring to the role:
The Senior Bookkeeper will be responsible for maintaining records of financial transactions and ensuring compliance with legal requirements.
General Bookkeeper tasks:
- Balance general ledger by preparing a trial balance; reconciling entries.
- Create and distribute IRP5's.
- Capture and submit statutory returns relating to Tax, UIF, SDL, and OID.
- Deal with any possible SARS queries (e.g., penalties and interest, unprocessed returns, refunds, tax clearance, etc.).
- Ensure that all the information requested for auditing is available.
- Conduct bank reconciliations.
- Maintain and reconcile petty cash expenditure.
- Complete filing for easy document retrieval purposes.
- Prepare and maintain standard and ad hoc reports and conduct appropriate audits to ensure data integrity.
Payroll:
- Obtain the relevant documentation from Operations Manager/Financial Manager regarding leave and process for payroll.
- Obtain final payroll authorisation from Financial Manager before salaries are paid.
- Distribute employee pay slips.
Debtors and Creditors:
- Assist with debt collection.
- Understanding of debtor's invoices according to invoice specifications and requirements.
- Compile and distribute monthly debtors' age analysis.
- Debtors' recovery - follow up on all overdue invoices, documenting correspondence and taking the appropriate action to ensure prompt recovery.
- Capture all creditor invoices received.
- Manage and follow up on creditor related transactions and documentation.
- Reconcile statements.
- Reconcile control accounts relating to debtors and creditors.
- Process credit notes and adjustments if required.
- Prepare monthly payment requisitions and creditors due report.
Governance:
- Adhere to company policy and internal processes.
- Safeguard documentation and other sensitive information for confidentiality reasons.
- Abide by set timelines.
- Adhere to all statutory provisions and financial acts.
- Calculate and record statutory returns.
- Establish and maintain an efficient filing system for all hard and electronic copies of documents.
Client and Vendor Management:
- Professional communication and interaction with client.
- Liaise with clients, build and develop relationships.
- Escalate un-solved client queries and complaints.
- Assist any individual internal/external with regards to financial queries and processes
Additional:
- Handle additional administrative and accounting tasks as required.
Skills and experience you bring to the role:
- Diploma or degree in Accounting or Business Administration will be advantageous.
- At least 5 years previous experience in an accounting environment. Bookkeeping to balance sheet essential.
- Knowledge of attorney's trust accounts an advantage.
- Must have valid driver's license and own reliable transport.
- Knowledge of VAT regulations.
- Great time management skills.
- Confident in building strong working relationships.
- Strong Excel, Word, and Outlook skills.
- Must have GhostPractice.
- Must reside around Johannesburg
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