Junior Finance Accountant
A company based in the West of Pretoria, has a vacancy for a Junior Accountant (completed Articles)
JOB PURPOSE
To ensure that the company’s accounting records are:
• Captured and processed timeously, accurately and completely
• Ensure all accounts are reconciled monthly
• Prepare the trial balance
• Process all customer transactions
• Manage Creditors Clerk and Cash Book Clerk
2. PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES
• Customer Contracts: Review contracts and understand impact on business and accounting
• Customer Statements: Create debtor statements and email customer statements monthly.
• Customer credit notes: Resolve disputes with customers and where necessary generate a credit note.
• Customer Deposits: obtain remittance advice from customer
• Site reports: Ensure all sites have sent the site reports daily; capture onto SAP
• On receipt of the signed site reports, check the invoice captured agrees to the site report and finalise the invoice. Print the invoice and attach the signed report to the invoice.
• Fixed Asset Register: Maintain a fixed asset register by site. Update for disposals and additions during the month. Tagging of assets.
• Fixed Assets disposals: Ensure Disposals are properly authorised, assets removed from register and cash collected.
• Fixed assets - depreciation: Calculate the depreciation and process
• Fixed Asset Verification - Perform a six-monthly verification of fixed assets on hand.
• Sales analysis report: Prepare a sales analysis report detailing all sales by customer and
• compare versus the prior month. Insert comments for items that are significantly different.
• Acknowledgement of petty cash: Open a petty cash supplier account in SAP. Forward
• form to Cash book clerk
• Credit Application: Open supplier on SAP and attach signed credit application and
• approval of account to the SAP business partner.
• Credit Application: File signed credit app and account approval & confirmation of Bank
• Details in Supplier Master file.
• Creditors reconciliation: on the 25th of the month, review the prior month-end creditors
• reconciliation file and ensure all creditors have been reconciled and all outstanding items
• are now resolved. Sign the creditors recons as evidence of review. Advise FM of any
• material items or long outstanding items
• Month End - prepare reconciliations for all income statement accounts
• Budget preparation
KNOWLEDGE, QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE
Knowledge & Experience:
• Excellent organisational skills with ability to meet deadlines and targets
• Must possess good written and oral communication skills
• Must be confident in Microsoft suite of products
• Must be able to process transactions on SAP1
• Ability to work independently and coordinate with other departments of the organisation
Qualifications and requirements:
• Bachelor Commerce / Accounting Degree
• Completed Articles
• Must be fluent in Afrikaans and English
• Computer literate
• Knowledge of ERP packages (SAP Business 1 advantageous)