Junior Bookkeeper

Reference: PTA026254-JJ-1

Junior Bookkeeper
R19 000 - R25 000 CTC per month
Lonehill, Sandton

Duties & Responsibilities

Duties:
  • Create and update spreadsheets of daily sales.
  • Investigating variances on daily cash up reports
  • Reconciling daily deposit to daily cash sales
  • Regular verification of float in tills
  • Manage accounts receivables- debtors management, collection and reconciliations
  • Conduct daily recons for Medical Aid claims.
  • Capture all income, expenses, claims, receipts and bank transactions on Pastel.
  • Follow up on all outstanding claims from Medical Aid
  • Ensuring all Inter branch transfers are done correctly.
  • Manage Accounts Payables: -
  • Manage Branch procurement including stock orders, consumables, and services.
  • Capture daily transactions on Pastel in the correct ledger accounts, preparing bank deposits, general ledger postings and statements
  • Perform daily and monthly bank Recons.
  • Pay Suppliers within agreed payment terms and ensure compliance with country laws.
  • Assist in preparations of budgets.
  • Accurately Maintain a systematic filing system for accounting records
  • Control Purchases and Stock Management-Reconciliations with GRNs
  • Maintenance of the Fixed Assets Register ensuring all assets are correctly recorded, depreciated and tagged
  • Petty cash management
  • Collate payments for authorization
  • Debtors management, collection and reconciliations
  • Accurate and Timeous capturing of transactions
  • Produce daily, weekly and monthly reports on time and accurately
  • Update, verify and maintain accounting journals and ledgers and other financial records
  • Month end cut-off procedures such as:
- Debtors and Creditors reconciliations
- Cash count
- Stock verification 
- Preparation and submission of VAT returns 
- Preparation of draft monthly management accounts 
- Report on financial projections, eg liquidity and cash flow. 
- Lead in quarterly stock taking and investigate variances. 
- Ensuring that each runs and prints month end reports at end of business day on the last day of the month. 
- Perform day to day administration work. 
- Any other duties that may be assigned

Consultant: Joline Jonker - Dante Personnel Pretoria Silver Lakes
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