Bookkeeper

Winning Form; Durban; On-site; ZAR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Winning Form, a prominent South African brand, seeks a diligent bookkeeper/accountant to support financial operations across multiple entities. The role focuses on accurate cashbook processing, ledgers, and timely reporting.

You will work with senior teams, prepare monthly journals, VAT reconciliations, and assist with audits, year-end files, and project tasks. Previous bookkeeping experience and strong organization are essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum 1 year of Bookkeeping/ Accounting experience.

Responsibilities

• Processing of weekly cash book transactions and ensuring allocations are accurate and complete.
• Reviewing monthly petty cash recons.
• Reviewing general ledgers to ensure cashbook clerk, debtors and creditors capturing are correctly allocated and VAT correctly accounted for.
• Ensuring cashbook clerks, creditors and debtors meet deadlines for review of general ledgers before management accounts.

Skills

People Management Skills

Problem Solving Skills

Time Management Skills

Job description

Skill Set

• People Management Skills
• Problem Solving Skills
• Time Management Skills

Financial metrics

• Processing of weekly cash book transactions and ensuring allocations are accurate and complete.
• Reviewing monthly petty cash recons.
• Reviewing of general ledgers to ensure cashbook clerk, debtors and creditors capturing are correctly allocated and VAT correctly accounted for.
• Ensuring the Cashbook Clerks, Creditors and Debtors meet their deadlines which will allow sufficient time for review of all general ledgers before the preparation of management accounts.
• Capturing of monthly routine journal entries for review by the Senior Team.
• Preparation of performance measures and supporting reports relevant to the management accounts.
• Preparation of monthly high-risk reconciliations for review by the Senior Team.
• Completion of monthly balance sheet recons for review by the Senior Team.
• With the guidance of the Senior Team, preparation of the trial balance for the monthly management accounts.
• Review monthly VAT ledger accounts, prepare output and input reasonableness schedules and VAT reconciliations which will be reviewed by the Senior Team.
• Assist the Senior Team with the requests from external auditors, internal auditors and BEE auditors.
• Assist seniors with adhoc tasks and company projects from time to time.

People

• Living HW values of Service Excellence, Commitment, Integrity, Accountability, Enthusiasm, Ubuntu and Innovation.
• Be considered a team player who helps out rest of team when required over and above their current role.

Compliance, risk and quality

• Attendance at necessary training sessions.
• Ensure logical saving of all work, templates, etc. monthly and yearly such that each year’s financial records can stand on its own when enquiries/ investigations/audits take place.
• Produce high quality, neat, logical, succinct, easy to follow, easy to understand, formula linked work/templates/workbooks/financial models.
• Ensure the above (final version) and other documents are chronologically saved/backed up and appropriately named.
• Effectively deal with internal and external parties (auditors, etc) where required.

Other

• Assist with company projects as allocated from time to time.
• Assist with year-end audit files and audit queries.
• Identifying accounting‑related risks and ensuring proper mitigation of these risks.
• Maintaining effective relationship and communication with Internal audit and Treasury teams.
• Assisting with ideas on innovation and automation of bookkeeper functions.
• Any other such duties that might be required.

Special projects

• Assist as and when they arise.

Qualifications

• Minimum 1 year of Bookkeeping/ Accounting experience.

Required Skills

• People Management Skills
• Problem Solving Skills
• Time Management Skills

About Us

Winning Form was founded in 1987 and has since grown to become a prominent brand in South Africa. Over the years, Winning Form has expanded to include four other companies, SplashOut, Star Merchant, Star Bar & Café and Racing Distribution, making it a large and dynamic brand with a wide range of expertise.

The Winning Form Group has created an environment where our Team can thrive. We believe in fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence. Our Team is made up of talented individuals who are passionate about their work and committed to delivering the highest quality results.

As a part of our Team, you will have the opportunity to work on exciting projects, collaborate with Team Members from different areas of the business, grow with our development plans and contribute to the success of the Wining Form Group.

Job Info

• Job Identification 2349
• Job Category Finance and Accounting
• Posting Date 08/07/2026, 06:24 AM
• Apply Before 09/07/2026, 06:24 AM
• Roster No