Senior Bookkeeper at The Career Network

Position Summary:
The Senior Bookkeeper position is responsible maintaining customer invoicing, debtors’ collection (NB!!) , customer reconciliations, fixed assets, payroll journals, monthly balance sheet reconciliations, VAT and other ad-hoc tasks.

• Capturing monthly Revenue Billing (NB!!)
• Revenue collection of overdue accounts (Building relationships with Clients)
• Customer General Ledger Reconciliations monthly
• VAT calculations and reconciliations.
• Introducer Fee Calculations
• Loan Amortizations
• Commission calculations.
• Payroll Journals
• Balance Sheet Reconciliations

Education & Qualifications

• National Diploma in Accounting or equivalent of such Relevant experience
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in an accounting or similar position
• Financial Services Industry experience is essential
• Experience with working with computer and Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
• Pastel partner essential

Proposed Job Duties % of time: Description of job responsibility/duty:

• 80%
• Operations

Monthly Revenue Billing and reconciliations:

• Capturing of high volumes of Sales Invoices, ensuring completeness and accuracy of the sales.
• Monthly Debtors Age analysis, and maintenance of the collection process.
• Issuing of customer statements.
• Liaising with Senior Bookkeeper to ensure the correct allocations of cashbooks is processed.
• Follow up on Debtors Collections.
• Dealing with Customer queries/internal Queries.
• Customer reconciliations monthly

Fixed Asset Maintenance:

• Monthly calculation of depreciation and amortization, and the processing of journals.
• Additions and disposal of fixed assets.
• Reconciliation of the fixed assets schedule monthly.

Payroll Journals:

• Monthly payroll reconciliations and capturing of salary journals.
• Reconciliation of all salary control accounts.
• Balance Sheet Recons:
• All Balance sheet recons monthly, ensuring all reconciling items are cleared.

VAT:

• Monthly preparation and calculation of the VAT.
• Detailed reconciliation of the VAT for submission to the financial accountant.
• Loan Amortizations:
• Calculation of interest and amortization of loans within the Group.
• Intercompany Reconciliation:
• Balancing of the Intercompany loans amongst the Group companies.
• Fee and Commission Calculations:
• Monthly Fee Calculations for various introducers and wealth managers.

15%
Support

• High level of understanding for contractual documents.
• Assist with the Audit preparation for the yearly audit.
• Assist with other financial duties from time to time as and when required by the financial accountant and financial manager.
• Ensuring controls are in place and adhered too, to ensure complete and accurate processing of information.