Financial Administrator

SUMMARY:
Signa Opportunity is recruiting unemployed youth for quality workplace experience through the Youth Employment Service (YES) initiative.
About the YES Initiative
The initiative was launched by the President in 2018 and is a partnership with the government and labour department to collectively devise a national plan to build economic pathways for South Africa’s youth by creating workplace opportunities for South African youth over a period of 12 months.

Position: Financial Administrator

Stipend: R5200.00 pm

Location: Johannesburg (Sandton)

POSITION INFO:
About the role
Responsible for all financial administration, accounting and managing Sage Accounting. Responsible for assisting customers with inquires, account information, processing applications, and any other duties to meet business objectives. Prepares reports and assists in correspondence and letter writing as required. Completes accounts payable and receivable.

Responsibilities

• Plan and manage order schedule according to stock availability.
• Receiving and processing of orders. Planning customer’s forecast. Ensuring customers receive orders on time.
• Creating Purchase Orders to Suppliers and receipting it correctly.
• Ensure proper paperwork and PO numbers are provided for driver and customers to sign off during delivery of orders.
• Receive incoming product from suppliers, verify documents and COAs against product received.
• Identify, document and resolve discrepancies.
• Invoicing of orders to customers with the correct Delivery Notes.
• Receipting stock and doing stock take once a month.
• Processing and managing Customer and Supplier credit applications.
• Compiling list of Supplier payments by the 15 of each month. Supplier payment allocations.
• Customer payment allocations.
• Sending out of statements on 30th of every month or last day of the month.
• Statement Recons.
• Electronic Filing of all documents, Invoices, Purchase Orders, Deliver Notes, Weighbridge certificates, COAs, Customer Statements.
  

• South African Unemployed youth between the ages of 18 and 34.
• Must not have participated on the programme before.
• Grade 12 / NQF 4.
• Accounting and Maths desirable
• Advantageous: Diploma in Accounting.
• 3 years’ experience in a similar position.
• 1 to 2 years’ experience in an operations / warehousing environment.
• Advantageous: Experience in the aluminium profiles, -systems and –accessories environment or
  similar.

• Proficient in SAGE Pastel Partner / Pastel Evolution or similar systems.
• Working knowledge and experience with MS Excel & Outlook at an intermediate level.
• Proficient in operational principles related to stock.
• Ability to effectively work under tight deadlines and manage debtor investigations effectively.
• Strong organisational and administrative skills.
• Highly self-driven.
• High reconciliation skills.