Bookkeeper at Hollywoodbets

Job Description

• Join the winning team and help us stay on track with your attention to detail, organisational skills, and understanding of accounting principles as a Bookkeeper at our iBranch in Durban. At Hollywood Bets, we understand that accurate financial management is one of the keys to success. We’re looking for someone to keep our financial records in top shape. You’ll be responsible for reviewing cashbook entries and related reconciliations, as well as assisting the Financial Accountants as directed.

With Hollywoodbets You Will:

• Innovate and create as part of a like-minded, authentic Team eager to achieve goals.
• Embrace challenges and the thrill of working in a vibrant and fast-paced industry.
• Grow with our development plans and culture that allows you to further your career.

You Bring:

• Matric
• Minimum 1 year of Bookkeeping/ Accounting experience.

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.
• Reviewing of general ledgers to ensure cashbook clerk, debtors and creditors capturing are correctly allocated and VAT correctly accounted for.
• Ensuring 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 ad hoc 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 the rest of team when required over and above their current role.

Compliance, Risk and Quality

• Attend necessary training sessions.
• Ensure proper and logical saving of all work, templates, etc., monthly and annually, so that each year’s financial records are self-contained for inquiries, investigations, or audits.
• Produce high-quality, neat, logical, succinct, and easy-to-follow financial models, templates, and workbooks, with formula links.
• Ensure that the final version of documents, along with other relevant files, are saved, backed up, and appropriately named in chronological order.
• Effectively interact with internal and external parties (e.g., auditors) when 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.