Bookkeeper - Durban at Hollywoodbets

You Bring:

• 1 year or more experience in Bookkeeping/ Accounting
• Completed or studying towards relevant Degree/ Diploma
• Microsoft Office

A bonus to have:

• Pastel Evolution or similar Accounting software

What You’ll Do For The Brand:

Financial Metrics

• Processing of weekly cash book transactions and ensuring allocations are accurate and complete.
• Reviewing monthly petty cash recons.
• Review of general ledgers to ensure cashbook clerk, debtors and creditors capturing are correctly allocated and VAT correctly accounted for.
• Ensure the cashbook clerks, creditors and debtors meet their deadlines which will allow sufficient time for review of all general ledgers before the preparation of management accounts.
• Capturing of monthly routine journal entries for review by the Senior Team.
• Preparation of performance measures and supporting reports relevant to the management accounts.
• Preparation of monthly high-risk reconciliations for review by the Senior Team.
• Completion of monthly balance sheet recons for review by the Senior Team.
• With the guidance of the Senior Team, preparation of the trial balance for the monthly management accounts.
• Review monthly VAT ledger accounts, prepare output and input reasonableness schedules and VAT reconciliations which will be reviewed by the Senior Team.
• Assist the Senior Team with the requests from external auditors, internal auditors and BEE auditors.
• Assist seniors with adhoc tasks and company projects from time to time.

People

• Living HW values of Service Excellence, Commitment, Integrity, Accountability, Enthusiasm, Ubuntu and Innovation.
• Be considered a team player who helps out rest of team when required over and above their current role.

Compliance, risk and quality

• Attendance at necessary training sessions.
• Ensure logical saving of all work, templates, etc. monthly and yearly such that each year’s financial records can stand on its own when enquiries/ investigations/audits take place.
• Produce high quality, neat, logical, succinct, easy to follow, easy to understand, formula linked work/templates/workbooks/financial models.
• Ensure the above (final version) and other documents are chronologically saved/backed up and appropriately named.
• Effectively deal with internal and external parties (auditors, etc) where required.

Other

• Assist with company projects as allocated from time to time.
• Assist with year-end audit files and audit queries.
• Identifying accounting-related risks and ensuring proper mitigation of these risks.
• Maintaining effective relationship and communication with Internal audit and Treasury teams.
• Assisting with ideas on innovation and automation of bookkeeper functions.
• Any other such duties that might be required.

Special Projects

• Assist as and when they arise.