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Legal Bookkeeper Jobs in Cape Town, South Africa at Dante Personnel Recruitment (Pty) Ltd
Position: LEGAL BOOKKEEPER
LEGAL BOOKKEEPER
CAPE TOWN, CBD
R30 000 CTC NEGOITABLE / DEPENDING ON EXPERIENCE
Minimum requirements:
- Matric with Mathematics or Accounting
- A recognised bookkeeping qualification – ICB National Diploma:
Financial Accounting, SAIPA Technician, or equivalent - Registration (or eligibility for registration) with a recognised professional body – ICBA, SAIPA, or similar
- Minimum 3 – 5 years’ bookkeeping experience, with at least 2 years in a law firm or professional services environment
- B. Com (Accounting / Financial Management)
- Studying towards SAIPA / AGA(SA) / SAIBA Business Accountant designation
- Hands-on experience with s86 trust accounting, including daily trust posting, trust-to-business transfers, and monthly trust reconciliations
- Experience supporting an annual statutory trust audit
- Multi-entity bookkeeping experience (group, related entities, or consolidation environments
- Practical VAT experience including the agency principle and disbursement treatment
- Experience with a legal practice management system (AJS, Legal Suite, Lexpro, or similar)
- Exposure to trust investment accounts (s86(3)/(4)) and interest allocations to the Legal Practitioners’ Fidelity Fund
- Prior experience working under a designated trust account practitioner
- Accounting systems:
Xero and/or Sage (Pastel / Sage Business Cloud) – proficient user, not just data capture - Payroll systems:
Sage familiarity (for journal interpretation, not processing) - Microsoft Excel:
Strong working level – pivot tables, lookups, reconciliation templates, structured referencing - SARS eFiling: VAT
201 preparation and submission workflow - Capture, import and post bank transactions across the firm and related entities
- Bank reconciliations across allocated accounts, with appropriate segregation of duties
- Post allocated general journals, including monthly payroll and annual leave liability journals
- Monthly balance sheet account reconciliations
- Maintain the fixed asset register – additions, disposals, depreciation, and reconciliation to the GL
- Review of Balance Sheet and Income Statement for allocated entities
- Daily posting of receipts, payments and transfers across the firm’s s86(2) trust banking account and s86(3)/(4) investment accounts
- Correct allocation of every trust transaction to the relevant matter and client ledger
- Posting of trust-to-business transfers against properly billed fees and recovered disbursements
- Monthly trust bank and trust creditors reconciliation, confirming trust cash equals or exceeds trust liabilities and escalating any shortfall immediately
- Maintain supporting documentation and audit trail to the standard required by the LPC Rules and the annual statutory trust audit
- Support the preparation of the annual trust audit
- Process downstream accounting entries from the firm’s practice management system into the GL
- Reconcile control accounts (debtors, disbursements, trust) between the PMS and the accounting system, and clear variances
- Respond to fee earner and operational queries on matter postings, debtor accounts and trust ledger balances
- VAT review and population of the eFiling template, with correct treatment of disbursements (agency vs principal) and trust-related flows
- Support the preparation of internal finance reports
- Run with allocated tasks in the preparation of and during the annual firm and related-entity audits
- Support secretarial duties across the firm and related entities – new bank accounts (including trust and investment accounts), replacement cards, bank verifications, ETC
- Handle queries from team members and operational staff
- Provide backup to other team members during absence or capacity constraints
Title: Legal Bookkeeper
Company: Dante Personnel Recruitment (Pty) Ltd
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
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