Bookkeeper ( Finance focused )

Job Responsibilities/Specific Duties

Accounting/Finance

• Debtors and Creditors experience
  
• Financial Planning and Forecasting
• Managing Payroll
• Proficiency in Quickbooks or Pastel 
• Ensures compliance and consistency with the organizations policies and procedures.
• Records and accounts for daily transactions, ensuring accuracy and completeness of required files and supporting documentation serving as evidence of transactions.
• Ensures sound cash management of local bank accounts and maintains petty cash fund.
• Processes cash disbursements in accordance with financial management policies and established approval levels.
• Processes payroll, remits tax and other government contributions and reports to local agencies.
• Responsible for full accounts payable function from procurement through payment of invoices.
• Process employee expense reimbursements.
• Ensures timely payment to all organizations payees and maintains sufficient and complete payee files.
• Prepares monthly financial reports for the organization and internal management reports
• Performs month-end closing and year-end duties
  
• Carries out any other tasks as assigned

Office Operations/Administration

• Responsible for all matters related to the operations and administration of the office.
• Ensures registration requirements are kept current at all times and files statutory returns and renewals.
• Manages local information technology contract ensuring infrastructure needs of the office are met, including properly functioning IT equipment, routine maintenance, security over IT (anti-virus software and regular backups).
• Maintains office files.
• Carries out any other tasks as assigned

Desired Experience / Qualifications

• Pastel / Quick Books