Senior Bookkeeper / Finance Operations Coordinator
The Legends Agency Cape Town
Senior Bookkeeper / Finance Operations Coordinator
An exciting opportunity for a detail-oriented finance professional to join a growing, service-driven business transitioning toward an AI-integrated operational and finance environment.
Pinelands, Cape Town (Hybrid) | R32,000 R40,000 CTC
About Our Client
Our client is a growing and evolving service-driven business focused on operational excellence, technology integration, and scalable systems. The business is actively transitioning toward a more AI-integrated operational and finance environment.They offer a collaborative and entrepreneurial culture with exposure to modern systems and operational innovation.
The Role: Senior Bookkeeper / Finance Operations Coordinator
The purpose of this role is to take ownership of the day-to-day finance function and weekly operational reporting within the business. The successful candidate will play a key stabilising role, ensuring the integrity, accuracy, and consistency of financial information presented to leadership teams while managing core finance processes and supporting ongoing operational and systems improvements.This role offers the opportunity to play a meaningful role in the future growth and structure of the finance function.
Key Responsibilities- Manage the full bookkeeping function up to trial balance and maintain accurate financial records, applying 3-10 years of bookkeeping or finance operations experience.
- Perform bank, supplier, debtor, and balance sheet reconciliations alongside processing accounts payable and receivable.
- Monitor and report on cash flow, and process monthly journals, accruals, month-end, and year-end processes.
- Prepare weekly financial and operational reporting packs to ensure accuracy, integrity, and visibility for management.
- Work across cloud-based accounting and operational systems to support the evolution toward AI-enabled and automated workflows.
- Identify inefficiencies, monitor financial trends or operational variances, and suggest process improvements.
- Provide guidance, oversight, and workflow management to junior finance and administration staff.
- Liaise with external accountants and auditors where required and assist with invoicing administration.
- 310 years bookkeeping or finance operations experience.
- Proven experience in a Senior Bookkeeper or similar role with strong reconciliation and reporting capability.
- Experience preparing management or operational reports and working with accounting systems such as Xero, Sage, QuickBooks, or Pastel Evolution.
- Strong Excel and/or Google Sheets capability, and comfort working with technology, automation, and AI-assisted tools.
- Highly detail-oriented, accurate, stable, reliable, and accountable.
- Able to work independently with minimal supervision, operationally minded, and adaptable to a growing business environment.
- Strong communication skills in English, high professionalism, and integrity.
- Exposure to supervising or supporting junior staff is advantageous.
- Proficiency in Afrikaans is advantageous.
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