A progressive accounting firm in Kloof is looking for a senior bookkeeper to join their team.
Job responsibilities:
- The bookkeeper’s ultimate duty is to maintain, analyse and provide feedback on monthly management accounts and annual financial statements.
- The bookkeeper must be able to advise and assist clients with tax, accounting and business-related support and queries.
- Candidate’s will look after their own clients and take on the responsibility of account manager for their respective clients.
Job requirements:
- Pastel Payroll, Pastel Xpress & Advantage, Pastel Evolution
- Sage One
- 10 year accounting firm bookkeeping experience
- Stock Control including sage one, pastel, Xero stock/item processing
- Great understanding and ability to maintain, analyze and provide feedback on annual financial statements and management accounts
- Being able to provide solid business and finance advice from a set of figures
- Take a set of accounts from scratch and have the ability to “fix them” and find material errors
- Company registrations
- Company and CC amendments
- Annual return Submissions
- Tax computations: Understand how personal and company income taxes are calculated AND tax consulting: Be able to provide accurate tax advice
- Ability to improve systems, problem solve and challenge the status quo
- Thorough knowledge of SARS efiling
- Understand that every business is different and has its own accounting/business challenges and needs
- Complete and thorough understanding of the VAT system and VAT processing of what can and can’t be claimed
- Thorough knowledge of Microsoft excel and Microsoft word
- Own transport
- Bonus experience/attributes: Omni, Xero, Caseware/draftworx
- Proactive and forward thinking not reactive
- Great communicator especially in English
- Decisive, loyal, outgoing and confident
- Caring attitude and have genuine empathy for people: great people’s skills
- Can get on with the job and take initiative
- Committed to continuous lifelong and personal growth
- Attention to detail
- Dedicated individual
- Great problem-solving abilities
- Accountable, responsible and takes ownership
- Patient
- True desire to want to help other people and their businesses:
- Ability to handle pressure situations
- Time management and organizational skills
- Must be willing to service clients at all times with a smile
- Be innovative and embrace constant change in the accounting industry
- Embrace a positive and happy customer experience: Be customer oriented
- Be able to provide, proper, transparent and continuous communication
- Be proactive and willing to go the extra mile
- Positive attitude to life: A can do attitude
- Highly numerate and has a flair for numbers
Please send CV and await further instructions. If you have not had any correspondence within the next 14 days please deem your application as unsuccessful.
