Introduction
Merchant West is one of the largest privately-owned providers of specialised financial solutions and advisory services to businesses and high net worth individuals in South Africa. Founded in 1998, Merchant West provides tailor-made lending, wealth management, asset management and transactional solutions to businesses and high-net-worth individuals, with offices in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Pretoria, George, Durban, Nelspruit, Port Elizabeth, Namibia, and North Carolina USA. Certain companies in the Merchant West Group are licenced and authorised financial services providers. Merchant West lending products extend to bespoke asset finance (across an extensive range of asset classes), fleet finance, working capital funding, property finance solutions and specialised finance. Merchant West advisory products extend to investment strategies, private wealth management and treasury solutions.
Duties & Responsibilities

• Effective Cash Book capturing, Capturing of relevant cash book accounts, Capturing of receipts on debtors management system, Filing of banks statements and payment packs, Daily reconciliation of SPV receipts and Ensure debtors receipts received in other entities are transferred to SPV within 1 business day.
• Loading and checking of payments (Correct allocation)
• Preparation of SPV payout packs
• Preparation of debtor refund packs
• Proof of payments to relevant staff
• Debit orders, First review of client debit order run
• Reconciliations, Agency fee calculation, Collections control reconciliation, Maintenance and insurance received reconciliation.
• Bank creditors including, Age analysis maintenance, Payment remittance sent to banks, Resolving queries, Adhoc queries and reconciliations
• Balancing of loan accounts to relevant group company
• Streamline collections reconciliation and pay over process, Liaise with banks collections departments, Bank audits where required

Desired Experience & Qualification

• Accounting or bookkeeping qualification
• 2-5 years experience within similar role
• At least 1 year experience within financial services sector
• Bookkkeeping experience, specifically on cashbooks
• Experience with bank reconciliations
• Computer literate and experience with MS Excel
• Experience on Sage Evolution (preferred)

Package & Remuneration

• Market related
• Provident and Risk Benefits
• Maternity Benefits