Temporary Bookkeeper – Property Management

About the role

Our client, a property management and investment firm in Pretoria, is looking for a temporary Bookkeeper to manage the debtors and creditors function across its entities. The role includes rent‑roll administration, cash‑flow reporting, invoicing, reconciliations and journal processing.

Key responsibilities

• Capture monthly rent‑roll and cash‑flow reports using Pastel.
• Ensure general ledgers reconcile with reports and investigate irregular payments.
• Perform monthly reconciliations of income‑statement accounts (water, rates, maintenance) and update rent spreadsheets.
• Process monthly journals such as credit‑card, utility allocations and loan accounts.
• Prepare supplier orders and invoices, prevent duplicate payments, and manage payment batches.
• Generate customer rent invoices and municipal charge invoices, follow up on unpaid invoices.
• Reconcile inter‑company accounts and process related journals.
• Prepare monthly maintenance reports and balance them with job cards.

Required profile

• Minimum of 5 years’ accounting experience.
• Proficiency in Pastel Accounting.
• Proficiency in Sage One.
• Experience with MDA / Property Central (MRI) systems.

Required skills

• Pastel Accounting
• Sage One
• MDA / Property Central (MRI)

What we offer

• Hourly rate of R100