📚🚨 JOB OPPORTUNITY ALERT 🚨📚
BOOKKEEPER
Tiger Brands
📍 Location: Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal
🏢 Work Arrangement: Onsite
📌 Employment Type: Full-Time
📅 Closing Date: 23 September 2026
🔎 Job Requisition: JR003153
🎓 Qualification: Grade 12 + Bookkeeping qualification
💼 Experience: 4 years’ bookkeeping experience
📢 ABOUT THE POSITION
Tiger Brands is looking for a Bookkeeper to join its team in Pietermaritzburg.
The successful candidate will be responsible for processing and maintaining various accounting and bookkeeping functions, including general ledger transactions, journals, creditors, petty cash, bank reconciliations, electronic bank fund transfers and inter-company statements.
This position requires a detail-oriented individual with strong bookkeeping knowledge, good reconciliation skills and experience working with trial balances and financial records.
💼 KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
The successful candidate will be responsible for:
- Capturing and controlling all journal entries.
- Preparing journal entries for sundry ledger adjustments.
- Reconciling loan amounts and investigating and clearing differences.
- Reconciling control accounts with subsidiary trial balances.
- Investigating and resolving account discrepancies.
- Ensuring approved capital expenditure is correctly matched to invoices.
- Verifying fixed assets and ensuring records are accurately updated and auditable.
- Preparing management reports relating to fixed assets.
- Downloading the fixed asset register to the general ledger.
- Notifying users when assets are expiring and organising replacements or replenishments.
- Ensuring accounts are correctly balanced.
- Preparing journals and supporting documentation.
- Posting journals to the general ledger.
- Processing provisions and accruals.
- Preparing inter-company documentation.
- Responding to queries relating to inter-company transactions.
- Assisting with resolving software system problems.
- Assisting staff with bookkeeping and finance-related queries.
- Performing general ledger and bookkeeping duties accurately and within required deadlines.
📊 KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY
The Bookkeeper will work with financial information and records to ensure that transactions are accurately captured, reconciled and properly recorded.
The role includes working with:
- General ledger accounts.
- Journal entries.
- Creditors.
- Petty cash.
- Bank reconciliations.
- Electronic bank fund transfers.
- Fixed assets.
- Provisions and accruals.
- Inter-company statements.
- Trial balances.
- Financial reconciliations.
- Supporting financial documentation.
🎓 QUALIFICATIONS
Applicants must have:
- Grade 12 / Matric
- A Bookkeeping qualification
💼 EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
Candidates should have:
- At least 4 years’ bookkeeping experience.
- Experience working with trial balances.
- Practical experience with reconciliations and general ledger processes.
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy when working with financial information.
- Ability to investigate differences and resolve discrepancies.
- Good organisational and administrative skills.
⭐ SKILLS & ATTRIBUTES
The ideal candidate should be:
- Accurate and detail-oriented.
- Organised and able to manage deadlines.
- Comfortable working with financial records and accounting information.
- Able to identify and investigate discrepancies.
- Good at problem-solving.
- Able to communicate effectively with colleagues and other departments.
- Reliable and able to work independently.
- A team player who is willing to assist colleagues with queries.
📌 JOB DETAILS
Position: Bookkeeper
Company: Tiger Brands
Location: Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Employment Type: Full-Time
Requisition ID: JR003153
Closing Date: 23 September 2026
📢 If you meet the requirements, make sure you apply before the closing date!
Please note: Tiger Brands states that, in accordance with its employment equity plan and goals, preference may be given, but is not limited, to candidates from under-represented designated groups.