Lodgement Clerk (Deeds Office)

Buyers and sellers are waiting on your file at a general practice with a property department in Benoni, and every step counts. If you like clear targets and knowing where you stand, this is for you.

You'll be based at a general practice with a property department in Benoni. Living nearby, or on a taxi route to it, really helps. Start date: as soon as possible for the right person.

• Request rates clearance and levy clearance figures from councils and body corporates
• Book signing appointments and explain costs to buyers and sellers
• Update agents, banks and clients on file progress on the bank portal and by email
• Fix Deeds Office rejection notes quickly and relodge
• Prepare final statements of account and pay out on registration
• Apply for transfer duty receipts on SARS eFiling
• Open transfer files from signed offers to purchase and check the terms

• Organised enough to run 60 or more live files
• Clear, polite updates to anxious buyers and sellers
• At least 2 years of conveyancing or bond work
• Matric, with a conveyancing course for secretary posts
• Experience on a conveyancing system such as GhostConvey, LegalSuite or AJS
• Admission as a conveyancer for conveyancer posts

• Notarial bonds and servitudes
• Estate late transfers
• Sectional title and new development experience

• Registration bonus per file at some firms
• Parking or taxi allowance for Deeds Office runs
• Normal office hours with rare weekend work

• State how many files you run at once and whether you do transfers, bonds or cancellations; it tells firms where you fit.
• Name the conveyancing software and bank portals you know in your first CV section.