Senior Bookkeeper - JHB at Watershed Consulting

Main Duties/Tasks and Responsibilities Job Duties / Responsibilities / Tasks: 

Full accounting function up to trial balance which includes, but are not limited to: 

• Cashbooks, journals, intercompany transactions, accruals, trial balance, fixed asset register, reconciliations. 
• Prepare and submit Statutory Returns. 
•  Prepare monthly audit schedules for balance sheet and selected expense accounts.  

Also explain deviations. 

• Preparation of year-end accounts and coordination with external auditors. 
•  Assist in the preparations of budgets. 

Ensure timely preparation of monthly, quarterly, ad hoc & yearend reporting as required by management. 

• Statutory Returns Monthly & Recons. 
• Timeous capturing of statutory returns. 
• Monthly Balancing and Reconciling of Statutory returns to the GL. 
• Good understanding of Statutory Legislations 

Allocate, capture and control sundry expenses  

• Prepare sundry creditors for payment, allocate payments, reconcile. 
• Accurate reconciliation of petty cash expenditure. 

Assets - Register and journals 

• Update fixed asset register on a monthly basis. 
• Complete monthly depreciation journals. 
• Monthly Control/Clearing Accounts Balancing/Recon (Debtors/Creditors/Stock/Bank) 

Monthly General Journals  

• Maintain financial records and prepare general ledger accounts. 
• Maintain debit order and SLA file, update and review on a monthly basis. 
• Record financial transactions. 
• Record general journal entries. 
• Effective record keeping of transactions, accounts, special journals and payments. 

Monthly Balance Sheet Reconciliations 

• Preparation of schedules and audit file for Financials monthly 
• Assist FM with Year End and Audit requirements 
• Assist with audits of the company. 
• Conduct general administration functions. 
• Filing systems implemented and ensure maintained to ensure documents are easily retrievable.