South Africa: Senior Bookkeeper (Telecoms) posted by AtripleA recruitment & temps

About the Role

Our client in the Telecoms Industry is seeking a highly skilled Senior Bookkeeper to join their team. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in bookkeeping, financial management, and leadership. This role requires strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and excellent communication abilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Client and vendor payment approvals and allocations

• Customer collections including the control of any automated collection system such as the bank’s ACB module.

• Banking status and reconciliations

• Ensuring SARS, Bank and any other documentation required is completed in order to efficiently run the business (e.g., Bank guarantees)

• Sales and stock reporting and analysis

• Ensuring client and vendor queries are efficiently resolved

• Resolving legacy queries

• Payroll submissions to Payroll department

• Stock reconciliations

• Cashbook reconciliations

• Journal entries and reconciliations

• General ledger reconciliations

• Fixed Asset control

• Creating and processing of Purchase Orders, Stock receipts, Picking Slips, Invoices, Returns and other documents required

• Electronic Banking Administration

• Document Administration

• Policies and Procedures Administration and implementation

• Electronic Database Administration

• Monthly full stock takes

• Daily stock cycle counts

• Trial Balance & management accounts reporting

• Statutory returns reconciled and submitted.

• Ensuring subordinates are tasked correctly and accurately and reporting on such activities.

• Ensuring all personnel that are assigned duties fulfil them accurately and quickly with form timelines given.

• Other duties and responsibilities will be added on according to the needs of the company when required

• Daily processing of all cashbooks

• Daily processing of all documentation according to company requirements

• Daily cash-ups of control of retail transactions

• Debtors and creditors reconciliations

• Manage debtors’ collections

• Creditors payments

• Timorous completion of all reconciliations and payments

• Negotiating and booking of rates on forward exchange contracts

• Notify suppliers of FEC’s booked

• Controlling all company documentation according to specified system

• Ensure all monthly and weekly deadlines are met

• Prepare management accounts monthly by the 9th of each the month

• Finalize month end figures for financials

• Prepare and maintain trial balance and balance sheets

• Prepare control and maintain asset register

• Analyze information regarding income and expenses from financials

• Report variances of financials and do the necessary to rectify them

• Ensure timorous payments of creditors

• Controlling and verifying the GP %

• Calculate commissions for sales representatives

• Calculate rebates

• Manage stock takes and verify variances

• Should have knowledge of ethical accounting practices and ensure they are adhered to

• Should have good oral and written communication skills.

• Ability to efficiently lead, delegate and motivate subordinates.

• Ability to work fast and accurate in high past environment

• Ability to work on multiple companies

• Understanding of Branch accounting for retail stores

• Ad hock duties required by management from time to time

Requirements

• Pastel Evolution “must”

• Advance Excel “must”

• Cashbook experience “must”

• Completed articles “Added advantage”

• Stock experience “must”

• Payroll experience “Added advantage”

• Fast learner “must”

• Ability to work independent in fast past environment “must”

• Matric with BCom

Salary & Benefits

Not specified