Bookkeeper at Mayfly Agri (Pty) Ltd

• A fast-paced and entrepreneurial chemical distributor is seeking the above to be responsible for managing accounts payable, bookkeeping, and inventory costing functions, including reconciliations, payment processing, financial reporting, and supplier support.

Minimum requirements for the role:

• Must have a relevant Bookkeeping/Finance qualification
• Minimum 2-5 years’ experience with Bookkeeping, Accounts Payable and Inventory
• Proficiency in MS Office with excellent Excel skills

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Performing verification, classification, computation, posting and recording of accounts payable data.
• Reconciling the accounts payable ledger for all suppliers by the 20th of each month.
• Ensuring that all payments are being properly posted and allocated.
• Checking and calculating storage and transport charges and comparing them to supplier invoices.
• Ensuring that all storage invoices are being signed by management before processing.
• Responding to and resolving suppliers’ issues and queries.
• Preparing and submitting payment requests for approval.
• Sending the list of local suppliers to management, including due amounts, by the 20th of each month.
• Capturing all supplier invoices for the previous month in the current month.
• Recording day-to-day financial transactions daily (cashbook).
• Performing daily, weekly and monthly bank reconciliations.
• Ensuring that all cash deposits are being identified and correctly posted.
• Identifying bank charges relating to cash deposits and transferring them to the correct customer account.
• Verifying that transactions are being recorded in the correct accounts, including the supplier ledger, customer ledger, general ledger and other ledgers.
• Submitting monthly reports to management, including LC costs, cash deposit costs, debit orders and insurance summaries.
• Performing import inventory costing calculations as required.
• Processing costings and ensuring that all codes, calculations and details are correct.
• Printing the second template, inclusive of all capturing calculations, after approval.
• Submitting documentation to the Finance Manager for verification.
• Making copies of required documentation to be used as supporting documentation for creditor invoices
• Assisting staff with account-related queries.