Senior Bookkeeper – Accountant - Johannesburg, South Africa - HR Studio (Pty) Ltd

Description

We're looking for...

A hardworking Senior Bookkeeper – Accountant with strong financial acumen and computer skills to ensure the smooth functioning of the business financial operations.

Who are you?

You are able to work independently and feel comfortable on different systems and love numbers.

You are a self-starter and hit the ground running

You have good understanding of organizational processes and practices

You are able to motivate your team to ensure high standard of work quality and efficiency

You are someone who applies the principles of international best practices and that will allow the organisation to achieve its strategic financial objective

You have strong attention to detail

You are an analytical thinker and have great problem-solving abilities

You have good interpersonal skills

You have good communication skills

You have the ability to interact with various internal and external parties on various levels

You are able to take ownership and responsibility for the function

You are a team player

You have ability to work in pressurized environment and meet deadlines

You have ability to adapt to constant change

What's the role?

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Manage procurement department and process's
• Setting up and reporting on department costings
• Processing of all supplier invoices and reconciliation of all supplier accounts on a monthly basis
• All suppliers due for payment to be loaded to the monthly payment list (internal)
• Processing of customer invoices and reconciliation of all accounts on a monthly basis
• Processing of all bank accounts and reconciliation thereof
• Follow up with customers for payment advice and/or dates of payment
• All general journals to be processed
• Bi-annual provisional tax returns for the company as at end of February and end of August to be completed, processed and submitted to SARS via Efiling
• Members loan accounts to be updated and reconciled
• Monthly salaries to be processed
• All suppliers' payments to be loaded on to bank to be released
• All vat and PAYE payments to be loaded to the bank to be released
• IOD returns to be submitted
• Annual CIPC returns to be processed and submitted via the CIPC website
• Credit applications to be processed and submitted to the creditor as needed
• Tax clearance certificates to be applied for as needed
• Annual seta applications to be processed and submitted to the seta as per the dates supplied by the seta
• Personal information document to be completed as well as bank details document by all new employees

Boxes to tick:

• Must be able to start as soon as possible.
• Must have a relevant industry degree
• Must have at least 3 years' experience in a similar role.
• The candidate must be English speaking (fluent) and is required to have advanced computer literacy
• She / He must have a strong personality and be able to professionally deal with customers
• Must be presentable and tidy and proud of the work delivered
• Ideally candidates should have expert knowledge of VAT, tax, provisional taxes and UIF
• Experience in Managing a team of people
• Xero experience