Bookkeeper
This role is for a Bookkeeper responsible for processing financial transactions, reviewing ledgers, and preparing financial reports. The bookkeeper will work closely with the Senior Team to ensure accuracy and timeliness in financial reporting, contributing to the preparation of management accounts and supporting audits. The position also emphasizes living company values and being a supportive team player.
- 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.
- With the guidance of the Senior Team, preparation of the trial balance for the monthly management accounts.
- Review monthly VAT ledger accounts, prepare output and input reasonableness schedules and VAT reconciliations which will be reviewed by the Senior Team.
- Assist the Senior Team with the requests from external auditors, internal auditors and BEE auditors.
- Assist seniors with adhoc tasks and company projects from time to time.
- Living HW values of Service Excellence, Commitment, Integrity, Accountability, Enthusiasm, Ubuntu and Innovation.
- Be considered a team player who helps out rest of team when required over and above their current role.
- Attendance at necessary training sessions.
- Ensure logical saving of all work, templates, etc. monthly and yearly such that each year’s financial records can stand on its own when enquiries/ investigations/audits take place.
- Produce high quality, neat, logical, succinct, easy to follow, easy to understand, formula linked work/templates/workbooks/financial models.
- Ensure the above (final version) and other documents are chronologically saved/backed up and appropriately named.
- Effectively deal with internal and external parties (auditors, etc) where required.
- Assist with company projects as allocated from time to time.
- Assist with year-end audit files and audit queries.
- Identifying accounting-related risks and ensuring proper mitigation of these risks.
- Maintaining effective relationship and communication with Internal audit and Treasury teams.
- Assisting with ideas on innovation and automation of bookkeeper functions.
- Any other such duties that might be required.
- Assist as and when they arise.
- Minimum 1 year of Bookkeeping/ Accounting experience.
- Microsoft Office experience
- People Management Skills
- Problem Solving Skills
- Time Management Skills
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.
