Accountant III: Accounts Receivable - (CONTRACT)

SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:

Introduction:

• 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.

 

Job description:

• 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.

Minimum requirements

Technical skills:

• 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.

 

Behavioural skills:

• 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

 

Kindly regard your application as unsuccessful if you have not heard from the agency within 2 weeks.

 

 

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