Bookkeeper

SPECIFICATION

The Bookkeeper oversees a company’s financial data and compliance by maintaining accurate books on accounts payable and receivable, payroll, and daily financial entries and reconciliations. They perform daily accounting tasks such as monthly financial reporting, general ledger entries, and record payments and adjustments.

Responsibilities

• Processing of creditors invoices including doing recons on each creditor
• Loading creditors payments 
• Importing and Processing bank statement entries monthly
• Maintaining the creditors age analysis and making sure it reconciles
• Reconciling all bank accounts monthly
• Processing Debtors invoices including doing recons when required
• Processing ad hoc journals
• Managing Debtors and following up outstanding arrears
• Producing weekly and monthly reports
• General ledger reconciliations
• VAT returns
• Budgeting
• Performing ad hoc duties in the Accounts Department
• Dealing with client queries

 Qualifications

• BCom degree or accounting diploma
• At least 2 year experience in the accounting environment
• Developing standards
• Analysing information
• Dealing with complexity
• Reporting research results
• Data entry skills
• Accounting
• SFAS rules
• Attention to detail
• Confidentiality
• Thoroughness