Senior Bookkeeper at Stewards Financial Custodians (2024-08 – Present)
- Software used: Sage Pastel and Xero
- Assisting with preparation of monthly management accounts
- Collating annual audit files for management company and assisting with resolving and responding to audit queries and implementation of recommendations
- Completing year-end recons and passing closing entries/journals
- Fixed asset register maintenance and management
- Maintaining inter-company transactions and loan schedules
- Full function bookkeeping to trial balance, invoicing, and cashbook processing, reconciling multiple bank accounts and credit cards
- Debtors and creditors capturing, management and reconciliation
- Liaising with customers and reconciling debtor variances
- Liaising with suppliers and reconciling creditor variances
- Vetting of customers and suppliers and KYC procedures
- Calculating periodic vat liabilities/refunds for VAT201 declarations
- Filing and maintaining accounting records and source documents
- Amending ledger, supplier and customer accounts balances where necessary
- Preparing monthly payroll, calculating income, deductions, bonuses, commissions and employee reimbursements using Intercode Payroll
- Maintaining employee leave schedules and administration of leave taken
- Preparing/amending employee contracts
- Maintaining and updating employee records
- Calculations in terms of paye, sdl, uif and provident/pension funds
- Completing UIF returns
- Liaising with and reporting to bargaining councils
- Preparing and submitting EMP501 recons via payroll and manual capture on easyfile
- Company secretarial services, statutory registrations, assisting with drafting of letters
- Maintaining company statutory records and minute books
- Preparing intercompany loan agreements and contracts
- Completing finance applications and collating supporting documentation
- Completing insurance policy documents, submitting claims and supporting documents and facilitating replacement or repair
- Preparing powers of attorney for SARS and legal application
- Completing bank FICA verifications
- Authorizing Balance of payment (BOP) forms and releasing client payments using Investec online banking system for forex deals and investments
- Preparing periodic reports to FSCA on company liquidity and compliance matters
Accounting Bookkeeper at CP Naidoo and Partners (2023-10 – 2024-05)
Reason for leaving - Contract position
- Capturing of bank statements on pastel partner, handling 40 clients in total, 20 clients per even and odd vat period
- Bank and vat reconciliation
- Capturing of debtor's invoices and creditors
- Managing monthly, even, and odd vat clients
- EMP201 calculation and filing
- Vat201 calculation and filing
- EMP501 calculation and filing
- Filing Income Tax Returns
- Processing and review of monthly management accounts
- Closing off accounts to trial balance
Accounting Bookkeeper at Astel Systems (2023-06 – 2023-09)
Reason for leaving - Filling in for maternity leave
- Capturing of bank statements on Pastel, Quickbooks
- Submitting monthly VAT201 and EMP201 returns
- Preparation of monthly invoices and statements
- Timesheet management
- Managing debtors, allocating debtor payments, analysis of reports
- Preparing payroll/pay slips on Sage VIP payroll and microsoft excel
- Creating purchase orders on pastel partner and managing payment to creditors
- Administrative and filing duties
Junior Bookkeeper at The Taxplan (Pty) Ltd (2022-01 – 2023-05)
Reason for leaving - Better opportunity
- Capturing bank statements, credit card statements, bond statements, invoices, journals on Sage Pastel, handling up to 25-30 clients
- Capturing VAT for even, odd, and monthly clients
- Drafting annual financial statements for companies
- Filing CIPC annual returns
- Registering companies and workers for UIF on U-filing
- Using e@syFile for EMP501's
- Skilled in Timekeeping, Pastel, Microsoft Excel, e@syFile SARS E-filing, VAT201's, EMP201's
- Computer-literate performer, and Telephone Manner, as well as administrative duties
- Using Capitec for Foreign Exchange for booking outward deals/payments
- Manage and execute foreign exchange trades through the Capitec trading platform, focusing on major and minor currency pairs
- Completing BOP forms, capturing suppliers, bank details, uploading invoices, APN'S, etc and liaising with Capitec
- Completing Access bank BOP forms
- Adding clients onto Docfox, Capitec platforms
- Purchasing of consumables, assets and inventory as required
- Managing repairs and maintenance, liaising with property managers, contractors, brokers, agents, service providers and tenants
- Liaising with real estate agents for property valuations
- Liaising with homeowner's association, attorneys and real estate agents, reconciling levy accounts and assisting with maintaining record of property sales
- Importing of IRP5 certificates to easyfile, resolving validation issues and variances on the EMP501 recon
- Calculating, preparing and submitting VAT201, EMP201 and EMP501 declarations and responding to SARS verifications and queries
- Resolving SARS tax queries at branch
- Following up on tax queries via SARS call centre, online query system and virtual appointments
- Checking company tax compliance status, resolving non-compliance and generating tax clearance pin
