Accounts Clerk (Property Management)

You'll keep the books clean and up to date for a property management company in Vanderbijlpark. Someone who likes a bit of variety, but also likes doing things the right way, will enjoy this.

This post is Vanderbijlpark-based, with most of your time spent at a property management company. You'll start with a short induction before working on your own.

• Post month-end journals for accruals, prepayments and depreciation
• Reconcile creditors statements and sort out differences with suppliers
• Prepare VAT201 workings for the accountant to submit on SARS eFiling
• Reconcile bank accounts daily and clear unallocated items
• Keep the filing system in order for the annual audit or review

• Understanding of VAT input and output rules
• Good with Excel: VLOOKUP, pivot tables and simple formulas
• Accurate with figures and careful with supplier bank details
• At least 2 years of hands-on bookkeeping or clerk work

• Experience with debt collection letters and handover to attorneys
• Registered with SAIPA or the ICB as a bookkeeper
• Experience with inventory costing in a trading business

• Office hours with no weekend work
• Hybrid work after probation at some practices
• Thirteenth cheque at many small firms

• Recruiters often give a short Excel or recon test, so practise a bank recon before the interview.
• Say how far you take the books, for example "to trial balance" or "to management accounts"; it tells recruiters your level.