Bookkeeper

Key Responsibilities

• Multi-Channel Data Capturing: Extract, validate, code, and capture high-volume supplier invoices, slips, and receipts daily from digital platforms, including email, WhatsApp, and dedicated intake channels.
  

• Ledger Governance: Maintain absolute accuracy across the creditors' and debtors' ledgers, executing routine supplier statement reconciliations and loading approved payment runs for final authorisation.
  

• Cash Flow Reconciliation: Perform daily or weekly bank account reconciliations, balancing petty cash logs and corporate card transactions while resolving unallocated line items.
  

• Month-End Close Management: Execute a structured month-end checklist, processing prepayments, accruals, provisions, and depreciation journals to deliver a verified, clean trial balance.
  

• VAT201 Compliance: Apply precise tax codes across all transaction types, preparing and reconciling bi-monthly VAT201 returns in strict alignment with South African revenue legislation and maintaining organised audit files.
  

• Operational Reporting Support: Assist with monthly payroll capturing, compile accurate year-end working papers, and proactively flag process inefficiencies to maximise accounting workflow
  

Requirements

Essential Requirements

• Matric coupled with a verified bookkeeping or accounting certificate or diploma
  

• Minimum of 5 to 10 years of formal, full-function bookkeeping experience.
  

• Proven capability in managing month-end balance sheet reconciliations, journal entries, and suspense account clearance.
  

• Solid, demonstrable knowledge of South African VAT legislation, tax coding, and SARS compliance frameworks.
  

• Direct prior bookkeeping or accounting exposure within the hospitality, food service, or entertainment industry sectors
  

• Cape Town-based 
  

• Fully functional, dedicated remote working infrastructure: a reliable personal computer, high-speed internet connection, and an operational load-shedding contingency plan 
  

Required Software Skills

• Xero Accounting
  

• Dext 
  

• Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets
  

Benefits

Benefits & Culture

• Fully remote operating model providing independence in day-to-day task management.
  

• Collaborative and supportive corporate practice environment with direct exposure to high-volume commercial accounting operations.
  

• Professional development pathway with opportunities to transition into senior accounting support structures.
  

Work Arrangement

Remote (Cape Town based)