Bookkeeper
Hollywood Bets is looking for a Bookkeeper to review cashbook capturing and related reconciliations while assisting Financial Accountants as directed. The role involves overseeing financial data accuracy and supporting the senior team in the preparation of management accounts.
The position requires a professional who can manage routine journal entries, perform high-risk reconciliations, and ensure VAT compliance. The Bookkeeper will also play a key role in supporting internal and external audits and contributing to company projects.
- Processing of weekly cash book transactions and ensuring allocations are accurate and complete.
- Reviewing monthly petty cash recons.
- Reviewing of general ledgers to ensure cashbook clerk, debtors and creditors capturing are correctly allocated and VAT correctly accounted for.
- Ensuring the Cashbook Clerks, Creditors and Debtors meet their deadlines which will allow sufficient time for review of all general ledgers before the preparation of management accounts.
- Capturing of monthly routine journal entries for review by the Senior Team.
- Preparation of performance measures and supporting reports relevant to the management accounts.
- Preparation of monthly high-risk reconciliations for review by the Senior Team.
- Completion of monthly balance sheet recons for review by the Senior Team.
- Preparation of the trial balance for the monthly management accounts with the guidance of the Senior Team.
- Review monthly VAT ledger accounts, prepare output and input reasonableness schedules and VAT reconciliations.
- Assist the Senior Team with requests from external auditors, internal auditors and BEE auditors.
- Assist seniors with adhoc tasks and company projects.
- Live Hollywood Bets values of Service Excellence, Commitment, Integrity, Accountability, Enthusiasm, Ubuntu and Innovation.
- Act as a team player who helps the rest of the team when required.
- Attend necessary training sessions.
- Ensure logical saving of all work and templates so that financial records are easily accessible for audits.
- Produce high quality, neat, logical, and easy to understand financial workbooks and models.
- Effectively deal with internal and external parties.
- Assist with year-end audit files and audit queries.
- Identify accounting-related risks and ensure proper mitigation.
- Maintain effective relationships with Internal audit and Treasury teams.
- Assist with ideas on innovation and automation of bookkeeping functions.
- Minimum 1 year of Bookkeeping or Accounting experience (required)
- Microsoft Office experience (required)
Hollywoodbets is a South African sports betting and online gaming company, founded in Durban in 2000 where it opened its first betting branch. It has grown into one of South Africa's largest bookmakers, offering sports betting, online casino and numbers games across a large retail branch network and digital channels. Headquartered in Durban, the company has expanded internationally into the United Kingdom, Ireland and Mozambique. Hollywoodbets is also well known as the title sponsor of the Hollywoodbets Durban July horse race.