Senior Bookkeeper - Cape Town, South Africa - FROGG Recruitment

    FROGG Recruitment
    FROGG Recruitment Cape Town, South Africa

    Found in: Executive Placements ZA C2 - 1 week ago

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    Senior Bookkeeper Cape Town City

    Our Travel/Tourism Client in Cape Town City is looking for a Senior Bookkeeper with 5 years plus experience and exposure from the travel/tourism industry / Experience work in the tourism industry or for a Destination management company advantageous

    Min Requirements

    Matric and financial certificates or degree advantageous

    5 years plus Senior Bookkeeping experience in the tourism/travel industry

    Experience in Financial Reporting

    Experience with Forex deals and the Tourism VAT act for Debtors

    Some Payroll experience when needed

    Experience work in the tourism industry or for a Destination management company advantageous

    Standard Bank Business Online advantageous

    OneDrive and Teams experience advantageous

    Experience in MS Office, MS Outlook, OneDrive/Teams, Advanced Excel, VIP Payroll, XERO, Dext & Sage Evolution

    Must be able to work under pressure and handle the high volumes.

    Information Gathering and Management

    EXCELLENT IN SYSTEMS SOFTWARE

    Precision and Accuracy

    Responsibilities

    Full Senior Bookkeeping to Balance Sheet & General ledger Management

    Cash Management – Cashbook capturing bank and credit card statements and reconciling cash books monthly

    Bank Reconciliation

    Maintaining Fixed Asset Register in Excel, including recording Assets and Depreciation

    Performing General Ledger and Balance sheet Reconciliations

    Maintaining and reconciling general ledger accounts, ensuring accurate recording of financial transactions, and resolving discrepancies

    Month-end recons and reconciling to General Ledger and maintaining supporting schedules

    Full balance sheet recons of control accounts and accrual schedules

    Financial Reporting & Budgeting and Forecasting - Assisting in the development of budgets and forecasts and monitoring actual performance against budgeted targets and providing variance analysis

    Accounts payable and receivable - Full function Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable (Tourism Act and foreign currency)

    Managing & Recording Customer & Supplier Pre-Payments

    Processing Invoices for suppliers and customers

    Researching Invoice Discrepancies and invoice problems

    Calculating and apportioning annual rates increases for tenants

    Multi-currency debtors (USD and ZAR)

    Audit support - Assisting with internal and external audits

    Ensure all forex payments are followed up with the correct documents to the bank for processing and posting currency variances in the books

    Tax compliance - Preparing and submitting VAT returns, EMP201, EMP 501 and other statutory returns

    Vat audits and Monthly PAYE, SDL, UIF for payroll (small payroll)

    Assist in payroll when needed

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