Senior Bookkeeper Cape Town City

Our Travel/Tourism Client in Cape Town City is looking for a Senior Bookkeeper with 5-7 years plus experience as a Senior Bookkeeper

Min Requirements

Matric and financial certificates or degree advantageous

5 ++ years plus Senior Bookkeeping experience 

Experience in Financial Reporting

Experience with Forex deals and the Tourism VAT act for Debtors

Experience with 0% exempts Invoices 

Some Payroll experience when needed

Standard Bank Business Online advantageous

OneDrive and Teams experience advantageous

Experience in MS Office, MS Outlook, OneDrive/Teams, Advanced Excel, VIP Payroll, XERO, Dext & Sage Evolution

Must be able to work under pressure and handle the high volumes.

Information Gathering and Management

EXCELLENT IN SYSTEMS SOFTWARE

Precision and Accuracy

Responsibilities

Full Senior Bookkeeping to Balance Sheet & General ledger Management

Cash Management – Cashbook capturing bank and credit card statements and reconciling cash books monthly

Bank Reconciliation

Maintaining Fixed Asset Register in Excel, including recording Assets and Depreciation

Performing General Ledger and Balance sheet Reconciliations

Maintaining and reconciling general ledger accounts, ensuring accurate recording of financial transactions, and resolving discrepancies

Month-end recons and reconciling to General Ledger and maintaining supporting schedules

Full balance sheet recons of control accounts and accrual schedules

Financial Reporting & Budgeting and Forecasting – Assisting in the development of budgets and forecasts and monitoring actual performance against budgeted targets and providing variance analysis

Accounts payable and receivable – Full function Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable (Tourism Act and foreign currency)

Managing & Recording Customer & Supplier Pre-Payments

Processing Invoices for suppliers and customers

Researching Invoice Discrepancies and invoice problems

Calculating and apportioning annual rates increases for tenants

Multi-currency debtors (USD and ZAR)

Audit support – Assisting with internal and external audits

Ensure all forex payments are followed up with the correct documents to the bank for processing and posting currency variances in the books

Tax compliance – Preparing and submitting VAT returns, EMP201, EMP 501 and other statutory returns

Vat audits and Monthly PAYE, SDL, UIF for payroll (small payroll)

Assist in payroll when needed

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