Accountant III: Accounts Receivable - (CONTRACT)
Project Management Connection
- Cape Town, Western Cape
- Contract
- Full-time
- To provide the business with accurate recording, processing, monitoring, and reporting of certain customer accounts. To monitor current procedures and the full reporting relating to these customers.
- Understand the accounting process of the accounts receivables transactions into the customer subledger accounts.
- To reconcile customers transactions to the payments received.
- Preparation of monthly reconciliations.
- Recover debt from these customers within the agreed payment terms.
- Identify unprocessed customer payments and timeously apply cash accurately to the customer accounts.
- Identify and resolve payment queries timeously.
- Ensure that all sales invoices are raised to the customer account weekly, based on the amounts extracted from the customer’s portal.
- Ensure that the accounts receivable customer and accounts payable supplier accounts net off to zero by processing weekly CADS.
- Reconciliation of POS sales to aggregator sales monthly.
- Ensure all customer monthly processing has been completed and payments allocated before weekly and monthly accounts receivable close.
- Review all manual billing instructions for completeness and accuracy.
- Ensure the timeous escalation of queries or system failures with the relevant business unit stakeholders.
- Ad hoc Reporting as requested by management.
- Monitor current systems and controls related to accounts receivable to ensure compliance with procedures.
- Establish SLA with key stakeholders / customers.
- Prepare monthly operational reports.
- Relevant Financial qualification – B Comm or equivalent.
- Relevant Financial qualification environment.
- Sound understanding of IFRS, accounting processes and internal controls.
- Deadline driven.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strategic and proactive approach to problem solving.
- Proven competence in Excel and Oracle financial systems.
- Personal Effectiveness
- Team leadership
- Passion for the brand and customer
- Connecting people
- Delivering high performance
- Having an accounting mind-set
- Making insightful business decisions
- Driving quality
- Planning and organizing