Financial Accountant

• 5 years of work experience, ideally 3 of which in a financial institution
• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Excellent excel skills (pivots, lookups).
• Degree in Finance/Accounting/Mathematics/Statistics or related disciplines
• Honours Degree and/or SAICA or equivalent articles

• Daily receipt reconciliations between FNB and the loan origination system
• Process collection runs and preparation of collection reconciliations
• Maintain various credit card balances, ensuring all invoices are received and allocated
• Ensure that the weekly debtor reconciliation is completed, and outstanding items are cleared in a timely fashion
• Perform full month end close process, including journals, bank reconciliations, calculating and confirming inter- company loan balances
• Perform the monthly External Debt Collectors reconciliations
• Perform the monthly bad debts reconciliation
• Managing that any debtor account adjustments are processed timeously
• Prepare debtor book stats to be provided to executives and other departments
• Process the receipts for the External Debt Collectors onto Clients’ accounts
• Ensure that accounts payable amounts are accurate and paid in a timely manner
• Assist with the preparation of short- and long-term working cashflow forecasts
• Prepare monthly management accounts with variance reporting compared to budget
• Monthly update of the budget/forecast with actuals
• Assist with various internal and external reporting requirements
• Set up of AFS template
• Effectively dealing with Analyst/ operational queries regarding receipts from customers, processing of refunds, manual interest postings etc. to ensure that they are brought to a satisfactory conclusion
• Resolving SARS related queries
• Bank transaction processing including expense payments
• Manage and administer the Invoices mailbox
• Test new Creditec in UAT before production deployment
• Manual work required for 3rd parties, bank batch allocation and recon
• Manage Petty cash
• Respond to creditor queries
• FNB Admin as required
• Process prepayments and accruals and ensure month end schedules are accurate and updated
• Manage the FAR including additions and monthly recording of depreciation
• Co-ordinate the process of an audit by assisting with the preparation of the audit file and addressing audit queries
• Maintain and update Finance Standard Operating Procedures
• Maintain an orderly electronic accounting filing system
• Maintain the chart of accounts
• Assure the protection of assets of the business through internal control, internal auditing and assuring proper insurance coverage
• Assist as a reviewer with loan application considerations as and when capacity allows

• Mon – Fri: 08:00 -17:00

Status Staffing