Bookkeeper - Rentals

Job Location : Western Cape, Cape Town

Deadline : April 24, 2025

About the job

• IGrow Wealth Investments, South Africa’s #1 Property Investment Company, is looking for an experienced Bookkeeper to join their team in Cape Town.

To qualify for this position, you need :

• Diploma / Degree in finance
• Minimum 3 - 5 years experience in a similar position
• Experience with rentals
• Experience with PayProp

Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to :

• Manage up to 1500 properties monthly payments
• Attend to all rental assist payments for your allocated developments
• Obtain monthly levy accounts and load onto PayProp for payment
• Obtain monthly rates accounts and load onto PayProp for payment
• Obtain all water, refuse, sewerage accounts and invoice the tenant
• Load all maintenance invoices on PayProp
• Invoice any tenant penalties issued by the Body Corporate
• Determine what accounts are being paid for the landlord
• Have those accounts redirected to IGrow and ensure the correct amounts are paid every month
• Send monthly statements to Landlord
• Send monthly statements and invoices to tenants
• Attend to monthly reconciliation of rental payments on allocated portfolio
• Attend to the monthly account payments for Investor
• Attend to and finalize all deposit refunds
• Deal with all client queries relating to the tenant and/or investor account
• Attend to deposit refund payments within 14 days
• Follow up on tenants in arrears as per strict process LOD on the 4th of every month
• Investors to be kept updated on late payments at all times
• Have an action plan in place to collect arrears
• Eviction instructions to be handed to attorney’s obo owner if requested
• Download contracts expiring from PayProp according to 40 / 80 rule, negotiate renewals accordingly to ensure all invoices have been loaded
• When warning letters are received by Body Corporate, send to tenant, and keep track that it is followed up on
• Attend to problems with water and electricity accounts