Bookkeeper – FMCG

  • Full Time
  • Permanent
  • Cape Town
  • Applications have closed

Job purpose:

To oversee a company’s financial data and compliance by maintaining accurate books on accounts payable and receivable, payroll, and daily financial entries and reconciliations.

Requirements
• Must have good written and verbal communication skills.
• Honesty, Integrity & Reliability
• Strong attention to detail
• Problem-solving skills
• Self-motivated: Ability to work with little supervision
• A willingness to learn
• Strong ability to multitask.
• Open to change and learning new systems.
• Able to work under pressure, meet deadlines and prioritize.
• Good time management and organizational skills.
• Must be flexible due to work demands.
• Must have own reliable vehicle
• Well presented

Key responsibilities:
• Processing bank reconciliations
• Processing of petty cash and liaise with the shop and reconcile on month-end
• Processing of import payments, LC’s, FBCI, OTT, etc.
• Check, review and capture Import costing
• Retrieve report for Nedbank audit
• Review and sign of Bank Reconciliations at month-end. This will be required to be able to do bank reconciliations from time to time as back up
• Capturing factoring account, Nedlib, Call, Current, Dollar & Euro account
• Review and reconcile balance sheet accounts, weekly / monthly
• Provision for bad debt
• Wages – Import weekly wages to Nedbank – as backup
• Nedbank transfers
• Wage Journals weekly / Monthly
• International suppliers (Create new supplier, reconcile International suppliers)
• Collate evidence of importation and email it to Nedbank – only for OTT not FBCI
• Check and review payments
• Month-end journals (All Companies / Salary Journals / Fixed Assets….)
• Review open PO’s and making sure that they are closed or cancelled
• Client rebates
• Process VAT Recon – submit to FM for sign off and then submit on SARS, review monthly and make sure that queries are managed
• Reconcile Camara account
• Monthly COCT Analysis
• Monthly Repairs & Maintenance Analysis
• Manage all things related to cellphones: contracts, staff recoveries, cancellations or contract transfers, etc.
• Monthly accruals: Fuel, Credit Cards, storage, etc.
• Depreciation runs and managing of fixed asset register
• Capturing and reconciling the shop accounts
• Reconciling of intercompany loan accounts
• Ensuring SARS Deferment accounts are paid in time
• Assist with credit applications as necessary
• Another other duty as required by Finance Manager

Qualifications/Skills:
• Matric
• Accounting Diploma
• SAP
• Excellent Excel Skills

Experience needed:
• At least 5 years’ experience

Contract type
Permanent with 6-month probation period clause.