My client, a leader in the finance industry is looking to employ a Junior Accountant. This is a very exciting opportunity.
Job summary
This role primarily entails the completion of various bookkeeping and financial administration tasks and providing support to the Financial Accountant.
Qualifications and experience:
| Minimum qualifications and training: |
| Bookkeeping diploma / accounting degree |
| Minimum Working experience: |
| 2-3 years’ experience in general bookkeeping/accounting |
Skills and abilities
- VAT and income tax knowledge
- Strong numerical, analytical and communication skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent computer, internet and systems skills (MSOffice, Internet and e-mail, relevant systems)
- High level of client service orientation
- Professional and presentable demeanour
- Ability to deal with multiple tasks simultaneously
- Ability to work independently and under pressure
- Attention to detail, accuracy and efficiency
- Proactive – take initiative
- Team player and reliable
- Strong work ethic
- Positive attitude and self-motivated
Key functions and Tasks
- Debtors
- Complete transfer letters for client fees
- Match all client fees received per bank statements, to the CRM system
- Invoice and receipt client fees on accounting system and ensure it accurately syncs with CRM system
- “Manual” customer invoicing for receipts not reflecting in CRM system
- Email client invoices
- Follow-up on outstanding debtors / CRM fees administration
- Prepare credit card links for client fees where required
- Creditors
- Capture supplier invoices into accounting system
- Prepare creditor reconciliations
- Make daily payments to service providers
- Manage commission pay-outs
- Bookkeeping
- Download & electronically file bank statements from online banking system
- Capture all bank transactions to accounting system, allocate appropriately
- Perform bank reconciliations
- Petty cash: do cash withdrawals, record cash expenses, and do monthly reconciliations of Petty Cash
- Process journals for interest on call account, loan capital and interest
- Prepare general ledger reconciliations
- Provide auditors with the necessary assistance and documentation required during audit processes
- Assist with other month-end procedures / journals as may be required
- Administration
- Assist with completion of expense forms & ensuring it is appropriately authorised in accordance with the company policies
- Deal with filing of all source documents
- Compliance Support
- Maintain and safe keep of all compliance and exchange control related documentation
- Assist with the preparation of monthly FICA registers, follow-up on the completion thereof and report back to the Risk, Compliance and Exchange Control Lead (RCE Lead) on exceptions
- Weekly follow-up on matters relating to FAIS, FICA and exchange control and report back to the RCE Lead
- Assistance with the preparation for external compliance and exchange control audits
- Assistance with quarterly internal Quality Assurance audits relating to compliance and exchange controls
- Assistance with the preparation for management meetings
- Follow-up with stakeholders on the status of training completed and the updating of the relevant register
Please send your CV to info@af-consulting.co.za
Closing date: 26 July 2019
