Senior Bookkeeper (Pastel)

Waterfront

RNeg

 Our client, a leading import & export concern based in the Waterfront in Cape Town seeks to appoint a Senior Bookkeeper to their financial team.

 Requirements: 

• An Accounting/Bookkeeping Diploma or equivalent.


• A minimum of 5 years bookkeeping experience with strong stock control systems experience.


• Strong Excel skills (Intermediate to Advance Level including Pivot tables and formulas).


• Experience on Pastel V11 using a stock module is essential.


• Previous experience in reconciliations of inter-company loan accounts is essential.


• Experience in the Fishing Industry would be advantageous.


• Strong problem solving skills.


• Ability to work to deadlines and deliver results.

Responsibilities: 

• Collect daily information from a minimum of 10 Area Controllers relating to landings and expenses.


• Daily correlation of information with various factories and processing plants.


• Capturing of information on daily spread sheets, reconciling and providing daily reports.


• Requesting and reconciling of daily cash purchases.


• Weekly creditors and sundry payments.


• Capturing of all accounting records in Pastel.


• All General Ledger, stock, supplier and inter-company reconciliations on a monthly basis.


• Contracts relating to catching and marketing agreements.


• Control and management of all documentation between quota holders and MCM


• Reconciliation of advances and loans to various quota holders.  (Need to be able to deal with at least 100-150 recons).


• Daily interaction with quota holders, catchers and factories.


• Compile daily/weekly and monthly operational and management reports.


• Ad-hoc tasks as allocated.