Cashbook and Recon Clerk

Recons that balance and suppliers who get paid right: that's the job at a small accounting practice in Welkom. It's the kind of job where doing the basics well every day gets you noticed.

Home base is a small accounting practice on the Welkom side of Free State.

• Reconcile bank accounts daily and clear unallocated items
• Run petty cash and file slips with proper supporting documents
• Load supplier payments on internet banking for authorisation
• Keep the filing system in order for the annual audit or review
• Prepare VAT201 workings for the accountant to submit on SARS eFiling
• Match orders, delivery notes and invoices before a payment goes out
• Capture supplier invoices and customer receipts on Sage or Xero

• Bookkeeping certificate or diploma (ICB, FASSET learnership or similar)
• At least 2 years of hands-on bookkeeping or clerk work
• Practical skill in Sage Pastel, Sage Business Cloud or Xero
• Understanding of VAT input and output rules
• Matric with Accounting

• Knowledge of Sage Evolution or QuickBooks
• Experience with debt collection letters and handover to attorneys

• Paid study leave for bookkeeping exams
• Thirteenth cheque at many small firms
• Office hours with no weekend work
• Hybrid work after probation at some practices

• Name the accounting packages you use daily in your CV headline, such as "Sage Pastel Partner, Xero, Excel".
• Say how far you take the books, for example "to trial balance" or "to management accounts"; it tells recruiters your level.