Bookkeeper ( Finance focused )

About the job: Bookkeeper (Finance focused)

Job Responsibilities/Specific Duties

Accounting/Finance

• Debtors and Creditors experience
• Financial Planning and Forecasting
• Managing Payroll
• Proficiency in QuickBooks or Pastel
• Ensures compliance and consistency with the organization's policies and procedures
• Records and accounts for daily transactions, ensuring accuracy and completeness of files and supporting documentation as evidence of transactions
• Ensures sound cash management of local bank accounts and maintains petty cash fund
• Processes cash disbursements according to financial policies and approval levels
• Processes payroll, remits taxes and government contributions, and reports to local agencies
• Responsible for full accounts payable functions from procurement to invoice payment
• Processes employee expense reimbursements
• Ensures timely payments to organization payees and maintains payee files
• Prepares monthly financial reports and internal management reports
• Performs month-end closing and year-end duties
• Carries out any other tasks as assigned

Office Operations/Administration

• Responsible for all office operations and administration matters
• Ensures registration requirements are current and files statutory returns and renewals
• Manages local IT contracts, ensuring infrastructure needs are met, including functioning IT equipment, routine maintenance, security (anti-virus software), and backups