Winning Form has an exciting opportunity available for a Bookkeeper to be based in Umhlanga, Durban. The successful incumbent will be responsible for the reviewing of cashbook capturing and related reconciliations. The Bookkeeper will assist the Financial Accountants as directed. 

Minimum requirements:

• 1 year or more experience in Bookkeeping/ Accounting
• Completed or studying towards relevant Degree/ Diploma
• Microsoft Office

 

Advantageous:

• Pastel Evolution or similar Accounting software

 

Responsibilities:

Financial Metrics

• Processing of weekly cash book transactions and ensuring allocations are accurate and complete.
• Reviewing monthly petty cash recons.
• Review of general ledgers to ensure cashbook clerk, debtors and creditors capturing are correctly allocated and VAT correctly accounted for.
• Ensure 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.

 

Skills and competencies:

• Ability to be proactive in order to achieve goals.
• People management skills.
• Ability to identify problems and find solutions.
• Ability to manage and prioritize activities to achieve results.
• Strong time management skills.
• High sense of responsibility to one’s own work.

 

Please note that only team members who meet the stipulated minimum requirements will be considered.

 

Please be advised that should you not be contacted within 30 days, kindly consider your application to be unsuccessful.