Bookkeeper

Summary

Join ZigZag as a Bookkeeper and assist the Accounts Team in data entry, processing bills, invoices, and payments. This assistant role involves accounts payable and receivable functions, bank reconciliation, general bookkeeping, and data entry in Xero. You will accurately process and record financial data, ensuring accuracy in reports and transactions. The role reports to the Accounting Manager and Accountant and includes ad-hoc duties and collaboration with other teams. You will contribute to system optimization and build strong stakeholder relationships.

Responsibilities

• Accurately process and complete data entry for supplier invoices, bills, paid invoices, and employee expense claims
• Ensure the data for preparing weekly batch payments report are accurate
• Accurately raise and issue invoices, process online or credit card payments, and issue returns and credit authorisations for faulty inventory
• Monitoring the receive of the payments and chasing for overdue payment under supervise
• Accurately reconcile the incoming receipts and outgoing payment transactions with customer invoices, supplier invoices and bills on time
• Reconcile accounts in the general ledger and ensure the accuracy of all recorded transaction data in Xero
• Investigate and remediate discrepancies
• For each of the core assistant functions above, apply a skilful, efficient and accurate method to complete the volume of work assigned
• Perform ad-hoc duties incidental to the core functions and as requested by management, including supporting the management team (and other teams) with data entry, reporting and analysis of data
• Assist with the preparation of financial reports, which may include Sales Reports, Cash Flow and Expenditure Reports, Profit and Loss Statements & Trial Balances
• Contribute to the implementation, review and improvement of the use of systems and technology within Lioness to promote productivity and efficiency
• Build and maintain strong relationships with both external and internal stakeholders to support efficient transactions and effective dispute resolution, i.e. dealing with payments, credits, refunds and disputes, and otherwise to promote teamwork
• Work both independently and collaboratively between teams to apply a positive approach to problem solve business issues