About the position
Senior Bookkeeper
Area: Pretoria East
Salary: R30000 P/M
Purpose of position: Reporting to the Financial Director, be responsible for the full bookkeeping function. Debtors and Creditors, run month-end close, prepare statutory submissions, manage fixed-asset register, reconcile bank accounts, and support the external audit.
Daily Duties:
- Process customer invoices, supplier bills, vendor payments and customer payments through to GL
- Maintain the Accounts; post manual journal entries with proper supporting documentation
- Reconcile bank accounts daily and clear suspense items the same week
- Manage debtor follow-ups, customer statements, and credit-control communication
- Three-way match (PO ? GRN ? Vendor bill) and resolve variances with the buying team
- Capture and apportion landed costs (freight, customs duty, clearing, SARS Customs VAT) on imported stock
Monthly close:
- Run the month-end close pack: provisions, accruals, deferred income, depreciation
- Prepare and post the monthly depreciation run; maintain the fixed asset register.
- Reconcile inventory to GL
- Produce management accounts - P&L, balance sheet, cashflow, Creditors and Debtors
- Maintain the cashflow forecast and flag funding risks early
- Reconcile inter-company balances across SA and Zimbabwe
Statutory & compliance
- Compute, file and pay VAT201 monthly
- Compute and file EMP201 monthly; EMP501 bi-annually
- Issue IRP5 / IT3 certificates to staff at year-end
- Year-end close, IFRS for SMEs financial statements prep, and audit pack handover
- Maintain SARS eFiling and statutory document compliance
Audit & governance
- Be the day-to-day point of contact for external auditors
- Maintain the audit pack
Group / multi-currency
- Process multi-currency transactions (ZAR, USD, EUR, GBP) and apply Forex revaluation at month-end
Qualifications/Skills/Requirements
- Relevant Diploma/Degree
- 7 years' hands-on bookkeeping experience, ideally in a SME or owner-managed business
- Confident with SARS eFiling - VAT201, EMP201, EMP501, IRP5 from start to submission
- Understanding of IFRS for SMEs
- Comfortable with multi-currency transactions and Forex revaluation
- Bank reconciliation ownership (CSV-driven reconciliation with vat-split capability)
- Strong Excel (pivot tables, lookups, comfort with structured workbooks for reconciliations)
- Experience with an ERP system
- Meticulous, detail-oriented
- Comfortable working independently and meeting deadlines without daily supervision
- Own transport
Desired Skills:
- Bookkeeping
- Year End Accounts
- VAT
- Trial Balance
- Bank Reconciliation
- Journal Entries
- Year End Closing
- Accounting software
- IFRS
- Debtors
- Creditors
Desired Work Experience:
Desired Qualification Level:
About The Employer:
Senior Bookkeeper
Area: Pretoria East
Salary: R30000 P/M
Purpose of position: Reporting to the Financial Director, be responsible for the full bookkeeping function. Debtors and Creditors, run month-end close, prepare statutory submissions, manage fixed-asset register, reconcile bank accounts, and support the external audit.
