Senior Bookkeeper & Administrator

Snaphunt; Pietermaritzburg; On-site; ZAR 300,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking an experienced financial professional for a management role. The successful candidate will coordinate admin staff in accounting processes, manage bookkeeping across multiple entities, and ensure compliance with financial documentation. Applicants should have a Tertiary Bookkeeping or Finance qualification with at least 10 years of relevant experience, as well as a valid driver’s license and willingness to relocate to Underberg at their own expense.

Benefits

Opportunities for career growth & development

Team management opportunities

Stable company with a solid track record of success

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in a similar role.
• Experience in the submission of monthly VAT and PAYE submissions to SARS.
• Ability to manage bookkeeping processes over multiple entities.
• Understanding of payroll and tax implications for staff.
• Ability to prepare financial statements for different entities.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate a large number of admin staff in accounting processes.
• Take ownership of reporting function to group owners.
• Identify weaknesses in stock and cash systems, implementing measures.
• Review key financial data and resolve inaccuracies.
• Control all documentation related to financial, legal, and HR.

Skills

Team management

Problem-solving

Financial analysis

Documentation control

Training junior staff

Education

Tertiary Bookkeeping / Finance qualification

Tools

Sigma

Easy Accounts

Job description

The Offer

• Opportunities for career growth & development
• Role involving team management opportunities
• Opening within a company with a solid track record of success

The Job

• You will be responsible for : Ability to co-ordinate a large number of admin staff in order to ensure that systems are implemented and followed across the entire accounting process.
• To take ownership and assume responsibility for the reporting function to group owners for multiple stores and properties.
• Ability to resolve inaccuracies and issues identified by more junior staff.
• Ability to identify weaknesses in current stock, cash and other systems and implement appropriate measures.
• While having knowledge of the stock system, Sigma and the accounting system Easy Accounts is not necessary, the successful applicant must show the ability to become well versed in this software over time.
• To be able to identify where processes have not been kept sufficiently up to date and ensure that these are rectified timeously.
• Ability to review key financial information such as control and suspense accounts, identify issues and resolve them.
• To be a self-starter that is proactive enough to solve unstructured problems on a daily basis.
• Control of all documentation, financial, legal, HR pertaining to all entities

The Profile

• Tertiary Bookkeeping / Finance qualification
• 10 + years experience in a similar role
• Experience in the submission of monthly VAT and PAYE submissions to SARS.
• Healthy understanding of payroll and the tax implications to staff thereof.
• An ability to easily read and to a fair degree, prepare financial statements for the different entities.
• A clear understanding of inter-company loan accounts and the ability to balance these.
• Ability to manage the Bookkeeping process over a number of entities
• The ability to extract meaningful information from accounting information and the interpretation thereof.
• Ability to train more junior staff.
• Have a valid driver’s license.
• Be willing to relocate to Underberg at own expense

The Employer

Our client is a South African based Recruitment Agency, who has had a history of supporting clients in and around Southern Africa since 2017.