Minimum Requirements
- Relevant bookkeeping/ finance/ accounting qualification
- At least 3 years' full function bookkeeping experience
- Must have strong Pastel systems experience, as well as MS Office skills
- Good understanding of accounting and financial reporting principles and practices
- Own vehicle and driver's license- advantageous
- Bookkeeping: Recording financial transactions such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, expenses and general entries/journals.
- Reconciliation: Processing and reconciling bank accounts, credit card accounts, petty cash accounts and other accounts to ensure accuracy.
- Managing Accounts Payable and Receivable: Managing accounts payable by processing and paying invoices. Managing accounts receivable by generating invoices and following up with clients on unpaid bills.
- Reconciling bank statements: Reconciling bank statements to ensure that all transactions are accurately recorded and that the balances in the accounting software matches the bank statements received from the financial institutions.
- Accounts Payable: Processing invoices, verifying that expenses are properly documented, ensuring timely payment of bills, performing monthly reconciliations of accounts payable.
- Accounts Receivable: Invoicing customers for goods or services, tracking outstanding payments, sending of monthly statements, following up on payments, performing monthly reconciliations of accounts receivable.
- Audit Support: Assisting with financial audits by preparing schedules, providing documentation, and answering auditor questions.
- General administrative support: Fulfill other tasks that support the accounting department, such as filing, data entry, and answering phones.
- Maintaining of Fixed Asset Register and recording of monthly depreciation.
- Preparation of monthly VAT reconciliations.
- Assisting the financial manager in preparation of monthly/yearly reports
Desired Skills
- creditors
- debtors
- accounts payable
- accounts receivable
- auditing
- financial accounting
- bookkeeping
- ICB
- Pastel
- 2 to 5 years
- Diploma
