Senior Bookkeeper

Vacancy:
Senior Bookkeeper

We're looking for an experienced bookkeeper to own the foundational side of our finance function - payroll, debtors, creditors, and bank.

The Herbalist has grown significantly over the past few years, with this comes a need for experienced individuals in our finance and administration department. As our finance function takes shape, you will be an important part of the structures and systems built to scale efficiently.

We are looking for a methodical, well-organized individual, that will be able to represent our company in a professional manner while ensuring accuracy within the department.

• Bank reconciliations across all accounts
• Petty cash
• Reconcile retailer statements and remittances
• Prepare payment batches against supporting documentation and verified bank details

• Maintain the debtors ledger and age analysis
• Manage credit control, collections and overdue accounts
• Support retail customer account queries

• Capture and process supplier invoices
• Prepare payment runs for review and release
• Supplier statement reconciliations and maintain supplier master data
• Chase outstanding invoices and credit notes

• Process monthly payroll through Simple Pay
• General HR administration - leave, onboarding paperwork, filing
• General office administration
• Prepare EMP
  201 submissions and liaise with the external accounting office on bi-annual filings
• Submit return of earnings to the Compensation Fund

• Basic monthly reporting
• Maintain complete and audit ready financial documentation
• Posting month-end and year-end journals

• Submit annual returns and beneficial ownership with CIPC
• Liaise with the US accounting office on tax submissions for a US-based LLC
• Maintain a fixed asset register

• Bookkeeping experience. You've run debtors and creditors properly before and you understand a chart of accounts.
• Comfortable in Xero and Simple Pay.
• Strong Excel proficiency.
• Comfortable with SARS eFiling and statutory submissions (EMP
  201, VAT 201, CIPC, Compensation Fund).
• Experience reconciling settlements from multiple sources is a real advantage - marketplace and retailer settlements especially.
• Organised and persistent. Much of this role is chasing things until they close.