Description

Job title: ACCOUNTING CLERK

Our client, based in Cape Town Century City, is looking for an Accounting Clerk/Junior Financial Accountant to join their team as soon as possible. This is a 6 month contract position that has the potential to be made permanent.

Team: Finance
Reports directly to: Financial Manager

You are responsible for:

• Maintaining supplier and customer details in the Company's accounting system.
• Daily processing of supplier invoices and monthly reconciliation of supplier accounts against supplier statements.
• Daily processing of customer invoices and weekly reconciliation of customer accounts against warehouse sales reports.
• Managing customer accounts to ensure that customers stay within their credit limits and following up on outstanding accounts.
• Managing finance-related customer queries and liaising with the Order Fulfilment team to ensure the processing of credits.
• Processing and sending of monthly customer statements and invoices.
• Weekly reconciliation of all bank transactions and balance checks against bank statements.
• Weekly reconciliation of credit card transactions and balance checks against statements. Ensuring inclusion of all slips received and processed when reconciling the credit card.
• Weekly reconciliation and processing of online payments made through various payment gates, including but not limited to Payflex, Payfast, and Snapscan.
• Reconciling online transactions against monthly online sales reports.
• Weekly reconciliation of the advance income account.
• Monthly reconciliation of the pre-payments account and requesting outstanding supplier invoices.
• Maintaining the asset register and monthly calculation of depreciation.
• Calculating and reconciling the monthly VAT201.
• Preparing and processing payments for the weekly pay run.
• Assisting Order Fulfilment with administrative tasks as required.

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience:

• Matric Certificate.
• Accounting Diploma, and one to two years relevant experience in the Accounting Industry, is preferable.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and exercise extreme discretion.
• Excellent time management and organisational skills with the ability to multitask, work in a fast-paced environment, and meet deadlines.
• Good administrative, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with strong customer service skills.
• Proven ability to work both independently, as well as part of a team.
• Ability to work comfortably with Google G-Suite and Microsoft Office, specifically Excel.
• Experience with Xero accounting software is preferable.

Salary offered: R15,000 - R17,000 depending on experience.

Graduates or Juniors with 2 years experience are welcome to apply!

Please apply online and if you have not been contacted by ARVO recruiters within 4 weeks of applying, please consider your application unsuccessful.