Senior Bookkeeper, Sandton

A Global Digital Communication Solutions Company based in Rosebank is currently on the lookout for a Senior Bookkeeper to join the team.

Roles and Responsibilities:

The employee is employed in the capacity of Senior Bookkeeper. This includes, but is not limited to, the following duties:

• Accurately capture supplier invoices and ensure timely payments;
• Capture all relevant month-end financial data
• Preparing journals and reconciliations for depreciation, deferred income, pre payments ,accruals, provisions and salaries
• Reconcile bank statements;
• Reconcile provision accounts;
• Process 3rd party payments from source documentation to final payment;
• Process BOP (Forex) Invoices for Internationals
• Prepare documents for financial year-end audit;
• Manage the financial year-end audit;
• Update income in advance;
• Calculate and reconcile commission for internationals;
• Communicate with the different regions over month end;
• Timely report on debtors age analysis;
• Update monthly management reports;
• Prepare top clients sales summary;
• Update asset register;
• Provide technical training and mentor junior team members;
• Inter-company accounts;
• Bookkeeping up to Income Statement and Balance Sheet;
• Handling all Statutory returns ;( Vat- SA and UK, BAS-Aus)
• Co-ordinate office administration;
• Adhere to best practice and standard operating procedures;
• Updating the global cash management report on a weekly basis;
• Pro-actively identify and propose areas of improvement within the department.

Minimum Requirements:

• Relevant tertiary qualification;
• 5 years relevant working experience;
• Honest and reliable;
• Excellent numerical and accuracy skills;
• Good time management;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
• Client service orientation, with a pleasant and efficient telephone manner;
• Attention to detail is essential;
• Ability to work under pressure and to take personal responsibility for results;
• Computer Literacy - Fully proficient in Pastel, MS Word, Excel and email;
• Good mentoring and people skills