Senior Bookkeeper & Administrator

Snaphunt; Pietermaritzburg; On-site; ZAR 300,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

A reputable recruitment agency is seeking a skilled professional to manage a large admin team and oversee financial reporting across various entities. The ideal candidate must possess 10+ years of relevant experience and a tertiary qualification in Bookkeeping or Finance. Responsibilities include coordinating processes, ensuring compliance, and resolving financial discrepancies. Willingness to relocate to Underberg is required.

Benefits

Opportunities for career growth

Development opportunities

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in a similar role.
• Experience in VAT and PAYE submissions to SARS.
• Ability to prepare financial statements.
• Understanding of inter-company loan accounts.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate admin staff for accounting processes.
• Take ownership of reporting to group owners.
• Identify and resolve inaccuracies in financials.
• Control all documentation for entities.

Skills

Team management

Problem-solving

Financial analysis

Training junior staff

Education

Tertiary Bookkeeping / Finance qualification

Job description

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.