Part-Time Bookkeeper / Accountant

About the role

A boutique financial services firm in Centurion/Irene is looking for a part-time bookkeeper/accountant to maintain precise financial records across a multi-entity environment. The role supports accurate management accounts, tax compliance and reporting, working about 60 hours per month (roughly 9:00 to 12:00 daily). It is a hybrid independent contracting position: initially two mornings in the office and three days from home, or one morning in the office and four from home.

Key responsibilities

• Upload bank statements and reconcile bank and card processing accounts to the general ledger, customer or supplier subledgers weekly, without carrying forward unallocated items.
• Allocate customer receipts, fix point-of-sale capturing errors, clear unallocated items and review age analysis reports weekly.
• Maintain finance lease liability schedules and the fixed asset register weekly.
• Release clean trial balances with query lists each week for management accounts.
• Review and improve internal bookkeeping and data-capturing controls monthly.
• Maintain a current query list per entity and follow queries through to closure.
• Ensure digital filing of source documents is complete, correctly named and traceable, and escalate errors or non-compliance in writing.

Required profile

• 4+ years of bookkeeping experience in a practice or multi-entity environment.
• Tertiary accounting qualification (BCom or BCom Honours).
• Working knowledge of South African VAT, including apportionment, zero-rating and valid tax invoices.
• Own reliable computer equipment, stable internet and a quiet workspace.
• Desirable: SAIPA or similar membership, experience preparing files for audit, and prior retail bookkeeping experience.

Required skills

• Bank feeds and multi-entity administration.
• Balance sheet reconciliations.
• Xero, Sage, Pastel, Partner (desktop), Dext / Hubdoc, SimplePay and Microsoft Excel.

What we offer

• Work within a small, close-knit team of two people.
• Hybrid arrangement with on-site visits once or twice a week to clients in Centurion and Pretoria East.
• Independent contractor, month-to-month with a 1-month notice period.