Our client based in Johannesburg, is looking for a Risk Finance Assistant to join the finance team.

Requirements:
• Grade 12
• Working towards a financial qualification
• 3 years’ experience in field of accounting preferred

Responsibilities:

• Administer and reconcile bank statements, including bordereaux payments.
• Prepare and submit VAT returns and payments.
• Administer and reconcile
- VAT and interest requisitions.
- sundry income activities.
- SASRIA activities and payments.
• Administer and reconcile bank and agent reconciliations.
• Administer contingency reserving.
• Administer and reconcile
- Botswana month-end processing.
- Namibia month-end processing.
- reinsurance claims.
- renewals.
- transfers from investment accounts.
- client financials.
• File claims.
• Provide customer services in line with quality and performance standards
• Build positive customer relations and solve or escalate customer queries and complaints
• Gather feedback on customer satisfaction and report to the relevant party
• Proactively suggest improvements in customer service and relations where applicable.
• Contribute to a service culture which builds rewarding relationships, proposes innovations and allows others to provide exceptional client service.
• Adhere to agreed processes in order to deliver targeted operational results.
• Continuously strive to enhance and improve the accounting processes.
• Represent and market this process internally to peers and clients.
• Identify and report on accounting process issues
• Proactively ensure use of time, of resources, money, materials or equipment is in line with policies and procedures.
• Comply with corporate governance policies, procedures and standards.
• Operate within agreed mandates.
• Align own behaviour with the organisation culture and values.
• Share and transfer product, process and systems knowledge to colleagues.
• Collaborate and work with the Accounts team to deliver required service levels.
• Actively participate in the Accounts team to ensure functional balanced scorecard objectives are achieved.
• Ensure achievement of own performance objectives.
• Actively share information with other team members regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas.
• Actively participate in own professional development and career path.